On this page I document all of my houseplants. I don't have many, and I've definitely let quite a few go to the graveyard over the years, but I try to keep them alive as long as I can. Click on the pictures to learn more.
last updated: june 2025
Monstera Deliciosa #feb. 2024
also known as swiss cheese plant
Native to the Central America region. We have two, and they are the longest-living plants we currently have alive. After the death of our ficus benjamina (Treestump still hasn't gotten over it), I am ecstatic that these monsteras have lasted so long. When we originally got the monsteras, the poor things were stuffed in one pot along with three other monsteras. They were all pretty juvenile, none of the small leaves had fenestrations, and three of them were so small they barely had leaves at all. But I knew it was going to get suffocating in the long term if I let them all live in the one pot, especially as I did not like how the leaves were all facing different directions due to the lack of space/fighting for sunlight, making it all look so messy. I repotted them all in individual pots and eventually the strongest two survived. The larger one is my favourite, and maybe plants can feel our appreciation, because I'm always admiring it from not so afar and its given me wonderfully fenestrated leaves until now. I hope one day it will grow to be a couple of meters tall and take over my entire window. The smaller one is just as cute, and its currently living under a grow light on my kitchen counter.
Aglaonema #3, #4, and #5 #2025
also known as chinese evergreen
Comes from China originally, though now native to many tropical and subtropical regions in Asia. Tolerant and decorative. My father originally gave me an aglaonema pup -- Aglaonema The Second -- in 2023 that stopped growing for some reason or another in 2024; it just sat in what seemed like stasis for months. Perhaps I flew a little too close to the sun and didn't water it as often as I should have... either way, after hibernating for some time, it all of a sudden decided to grow three children at once! Aglaonema The Third, Fourth, and Fifth. We were shocked. They are currently still small but regularly pushing out new leaves, while Aglaonema The Second shed all of its leaves shortly after the triplets happened. I was left with nothing but a long husk, so I cut it down to a short stub and its currently very happy being surrounded by its children while its presumably alive roots steal resources from them.
Dracaena Sanderiana #june 2025
also known as lucky bamboo
From the Congo and surrounding regions. Technically a giant grass, not a variety of bamboo. I received it on my wedding day as part of a beautiful bouquet, symbolising luck and happiness. It is currently living in water and I am hoping (tentatively) it will grow more roots and continue to grow.
Bromeliad #september 2024
also known as air plants
South American native with many varieties coming from Brazil, they have colourful flowers sprouting from the center of its waxy leaves. My husband gave it to me for my birthday in 2024 and I'm surprised the plant has lived this long, as he was told that they bloom only once in their lifetime and then die afterwards; he brought the bromeliad home when the flowers were in full bloom! Long it has been since the flowers were a beautiful and vibrant shade of orange -- they began wilting after about a month of having it, and now they are just fossils of what they originally were. Maybe a dozen or so of the leaves have also dried up at this point. Even so, that is just par for the course of having this type of plant, and the bromeliad has been producing some children at its base, which I might seperate at some point and put into fresh pots so they can flower and bloom once more.
Epipremnum aureum #feb. 2024
also known as pothos, & devil's ivy
Solomon Islands native. Practically immortal. Lovingly nicknamed Juyeomi (a portmanteau of the names Juyeon + Mila), it was originally purchased February 2024. This pothos almost completely died only 2 weeks after we got it due to an unknown case of root rot. When it was on the brink, I cut off as many healthy pieces as I could and stuck them in some water to see if they would grow roots. This was my first ever time water propagating anything. I don't know whether it was bad plant genetics, or if it suffered really badly from the rot, but it took about two months for it to grow long enough roots to plant back in soil! And only 4 bits lived long enough to adjust to the soil. These days it's doing very well and I can go weeks without watering it despite the small size. I've heard these plants are supposed to grow like weeds but that has not been my experience at all; my pothos grows very, very slowly. It currently lives in a hanging planter right next to the window, so I'm hoping it will eventually start looking more ivy-ish; long and trailing downwards.
