Blackbird's House Plant Show and Tell

A bit late, as usual, for Blackbird's show and tell.

This is our main house plant at the current house, a Valencia orange tree that's probably close to 40 years old. We built our deck around it so it's really a part of our house - that makes it a houseplant, yes?

The fruit is quite bitter to eat, but not when juiced - how does that work? It's so prolific that we have more than enough for juice in winter. I will miss it enormously when we move out and the Pea Princess has several times suggested that it can't be that hard to dig it up and bring it with us.

We're making it a condition of the lease that our tenants let the agent know if the tree appears to be sick!

And here, just for fun, some other house plants - many will be coming with us when we move.

You might be able to see the thick brown stem of the columnar rosemary these cuttings were grown from. Sadly the mother plant didn't make it when we had to transplant her out of the main garden bed, but the babies are doing very well.

Speaking of babies, this is the kitten who broke the camel's back - she's the reason we really have to move.

Nasturtiums, so cheap, so cheerful, so 1980s garden salad! I love knowing that I can pull this up, stick it in a plastic bag and poke it in the ground at the new house and - with no more effort than that - get a lovely cascade of yellow and orange flowers this spring.

mtc

Bec