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Hey are there any feng shui experts here on Steem? Because I just did a bunch of houseplant care today and ended up moving all my pothos to the dining room (that isn't a dining room) before I even realized I'd done it. I think (but am not sure) that they are all golden pothos - and I just wiki'd it and apparently they're called "money tree" in parts of India. The dining room is the money corner of my bagua map. So I'm thinking I just did a good? LOL

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Currently the dining room is a bit of a mess but I've been working on getting it cleaned up. The kitchen is really a mess, but we won't go there just now... ;)

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It was Repotting Day here in the apartment homestead in the sky. Hey, I gotta get my plant fixes in the winter too!

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To the left is a pothos in recovery that I inherited from a friend; to the right is Dudeplant. Dudeplant I inherited from a neighbor whose cat named Dude was eating it, ergo his name in honor of the kitty. He's part palm plant and part pothos - the looooooooooooong vines of pothos that are nearly encircling the entire dining room at this point!

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Besides repotting some pothos, I potted some Wandering Dudes that had trailed off (they do that), and put five spider plant babies in pots.

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the mama spider plant, Danu, next to a small pot of very viney Wandering Dudes and guess what - more Dudeplant! - above some dragon trees (who are named Dudley and Síle)

Yes, I name my plants, though sometimes it takes a while for me to figure out their name. :)

Also in the dining room, a snake plant (AKA mother in law's tongue) that I repotted in some of my homemade compost last summer and who grew like mad after I did so! :D

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next to one of the just-potted spider plant babies

And some grafted cacti:

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So that's some of the plants in my nice and green dining room. :D I enjoyed my plant time today. 14 plants in that space now. I'm up to 26 inside the apartment after today. Before I moved in here, I had thirtysomething plants while staying at my parents' house; but when I moved back out, I left the plants for the week so I could settle and make spaces for all of them without them getting knocked over in the chaos. Meanwhile, my semi-senile dad thought he was "helping" by PACKING THEM IN BOXES - some of them upside down - almost as soon as I left (whether he really thought he was helping or if he just couldn't wait to get me and any sign of my presence out of the house, I cannot say for sure, but he claimed he thought he was helping. However my mom didn't stop him, so I think they just didn't want any sign of me anymore). So a lot of them died. A lot of those plants I managed to get for cheap because I worked at the Home Depot during that time at my parents' house and the garden manager knew I was a plant person and would come to me with all of her TLC-needing cases and a discount (as employees there is no discount at HD, she was just marking them down because they were suffering). So I have slooooooooooowly been adding plants over the years.

Also, you'd think I'd have AMAZING light for lots of plants given that the balcony - and the balcony-door-to-nowhere - face south. But there is a tall building right there one parking lot over, so the light isn't what you'd think it would be, lol. It's indirect. My best light is actually from the east.

How are your plants doing, Steem fam? And what about that feng shui? :D

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