That was a great video, enjoyed it all the way to the end. Have to be honest, some of my favorite parts were when Toby grabbed some camera time! He is such an adorable bundle of fur. Warms my heart to see how he just wants to be with his Momma all the time. Adore him!
Just found your channel and I appreciate that you’re also showing how to style plants. Most channels have them on shelving which is not appealing. Thank you!🌿
Drea I have to say what an awesome video ty for sharing this with us! Your plants are all lovely and you have such a great variety. Another thing I really like is that you use your plants as decor and don't just have them hidden away in a crowded cabinet like so many UA-camrs seem to do! I like to see plants that are displayed and growing using good old natural light and at times lack of natural light lol. Your passion for your plants really shows and I prefer your style compared to the ones that hoard hundreds of plants into cabinets and plant rooms all smooshed together 🤣
Thanks! I like to be able to see and enjoy my plants. Plus when I can see everyone I don’t have to worry about forgetting to water someone because they’re hidden behind someone else on a shelf😜
Janee’, I was at Aldi last week, and on the way out from the corner of my eye I saw large plants in the distance, but was trying to get back home and out of the cold!🥶🤣🤣🤣 Now, I wish I had checked out the plants. Plus, I want another peace Lily. That one you bought is HUGE!! To prevent root rot, you can add lots of pumice and orchard bark to the soil. And since Peace Lilies are such “vocal” plants, don’t water them until they begin to flop. To me, that would be a LOT of water if you go the water-only route. Good luck with your Aldi plants. They are a steal and I am so glad for you, dear.🪴🧡🪴❤️😊
I have success with Watermelon peperomia in Ca. Fuller plant more light! Adapt plant Slowly to eastern direct morning(best) sunlight or filtered through curtains or shade cloth Lol in brighter location. Perfect leaves-- maintain ph 6.5 When ph is off you get deformed leaves. Once leaves are deform they stay deform, baby leaves must grow in perfect. I water and fertilize ph corrected. Plant easily rots with saturated soil. When I water I let drain completely then suck out any extra drops out of pot by sitting pot on toilet paper. Watermelon peperomia is my wishlist plant from the 80's !!!
@@AlohaPlantLife I believe that the Australians success with watermelon peperomia is due indirectly to balanced ph 6.5 to 7 either by 1 fertilizing organically with fish emulsion and sea weed extract(helps root grow and prevents dormancy or slow growth)which balances the ph organically or 2 with a ph balanced Hydroponic nutrient foliage focus but any expensive ph balanced Hydroponic nutrient for cannabis here in the US would work and the way to go if you don't mind spending the money. Dynagro is cheaper and has all the nutrients but is not ph balanced and you must balance the ph yourself. I use the cheapest DIY Hydroponic mix --Master blend. 1/4 tsp calcium nitrate, 1/4 tsp miracle-gro(or any water soluble fertilizer with micros), 1/8 tsp Epsom salt in a gallon of distilled water. Since I'm to cheap to buy distilled water I use 2/3 my tap water and 1/3 rain water(this mixture give me the right ph in my area, other places may vary). I Make my own ph buffer by neutralizing vinegar with egg shells in a large container. I want excess egg shell to vinegar so that after it stops fizzing the resulting liquid is in the right ph. I add 1 Tbs of this neutralized vinegar to the 1 gallon fertilizer solution. I water my watermelon peperomia with this solution. The first watering of each month I water with just plain water to flush excess salts and fertilizer. And of course drain and sit the pot on toilet paper. Sitting the pot on something absorbent like toilet paper to suck up extra water is a life saver and absolute must after a repot when the roots are damaged. I fertilize organically lightly on top of this since I believe that organic matter helps maintain the proper ph, but the main thing is to stop watering at the wrong ph. I believe watermelon peperomia look great from the nursery because potting soil is ph adjusted but watering with water with the wrong ph will slowly change the ph of the soil in the pot thus deformed leaves:(
Lovely! I love your distribution/density of plants! You have plenty and plenty of variety while still allowing for each plant to be appreciated. And they all look so good too! Loved it!
Hi my dear friend thank you so much for a wonderful full house hold tour really enjoyed watching the video. You have some beautiful house plants hugs and kisses from grandma, Sandy, and Debbie.
Thoroughly enjoyed your 2023 Houseplant Tour! Many thanks. You have such beautiful and well cared for plants and you’ve grown your UA-cam Channel with excellent content. Congratulations on a very successful first year for your Channel. Well done! 👌🪴🥰
I have a Peperomia Watermelon…I found mine was getting leggy, leaves splitting and eventually dying and falling off. I knew it wasn’t a water problem so it had to be lighting. And that was it. This was going to be its last chance (I also had a Harmony’s Gold Dust Woman in the same pot). I put the pot in direct sun/part shade (south facing window), and within the past couple of weeks it has so many new GOOD leaves! I treat her like my succulents. She gets a good drink 1-2 times a month in the winter, maybe every 10 days in the summer. Now with the correct lighting she is growing.
😂😂😂 Toby is such a goof! I've had cats my entire life, and I've never had one that liked water like Toby does! That is too cute! Sorry. I got such a kick out of Toby I forgot about the plants. Oops! Beautiful plants! Thank you for the tour! 😃
Love your plants! You make we want more and I have 50! Watermelon peperomia is my favorite, maybe give it another try with a new plant because yours looks sad. Only tips are well draining soil and it loves to be snug in its pot!
Oh my gosh I can’t wait for next year’s tour to see before and after how the beautiful plants look. Thank you for so much working care of that you put into this video. Hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy, and
Sure it's too late by now...but regarding the begonia maculata... maybe you can place a small stake in the pot and tie it back to support it in further or pull the whole cluster together leaving a lot of growth around the entire plant again
Guttation: I'm finding a happy medium with my Alocasia. If I water immediately when the soil dries, and just let it run through, it doesn't guttate. At least during the winter. My Schismatoglottis (the same as you have) has never guttate. What I was doing before, is "water well until the soil was fully moisturized" the Alocasia 1:13:04 seemed to get too much water. I'm extremely new to both plants so the learning curve is quick. Spider Mites: I've decided that a monthly leaf wash/wipe down may be really helpful. The awful cold snap we had was nerve wracking. The house got down to 60...but for the most part, my plants managed to deal with it. I did "look for you" down here when you were visityou parents and sister, but this city is so darned huge, I knew I wouldn't see you. Anyhoo...hope what I'm saying makes sense.
Beautiful plant collection. My ctenanthe burle marxii loves sitting right next to an east facing, distilled water, and fertilizer regularly. She grows like crazy!
Well, I think it's close to a year from the date this video was done.!? Should we be expecting an updated video for the year of growth with these houseplants in your care? I hope so, looking forward to it. TFS Drea! 💦😁🌱🌼🌿
Stick with it, and if you haven’t checked out my video on how care for it and other plants in the prayer plant family that might help you. Here’s a link to that video: ua-cam.com/video/xTmi-t61jAQ/v-deo.html
I am just getting into plants and jeez is it addicting. Great video. I would love info or link for the holders on the wall. the metal circle ones... Love them...
Just came across your channel & I am really enjoying what I see. Love your plant collection on those beautiful shelves. Would you mind sharing where you bought them?
Hi Drea! I'm new to your channel and I'm loving your content. I'm currently battling a mild to moderate spider mite infestation. I've sprayed down every. single. one of my plants with your diy pesticide and scrubbed the bejeesus out of the leaves and stems on the plants that were actually affected as far as I could tell with my handy dandy magnifying glass. I even vacuumed the walls😳I am isolating some of my plants in my gym, but it's really cold and dark in there right now. I'm wondering whether it's safe to put my plants back (particularly my huge monstera that I can't really put anywhere other than my windowless shower) if I continue to treat them weekly. I'm getting really stressed out about losing plants because they're sitting in cold, dark places and could really use some reassurance!🥺
You just have to use your best judgment as to whether you’ve got it under control yet or not. You definitely don’t want to be spreading it to more plants, that’s just going to stress you out even more.
So with Toby I just got lucky. He was already older when I started getting into plants and he really never showed in interest in messing with them. When I got Theo and George I didn’t know what to expect. Luckily George could care less about them. Theo on the other hand, knows I don’t want him messing with them so when he wants my attention he purposely goes and messes with them and will continue to do so until I give him whatever it is he wants which is highly annoying🙄 The rest of the time he doesn’t give them a second thought.
Obviously she is accomplished house plant grower she could give a lot of pointers about soil, watering, humidity to a lot of struggling house plant enthusiasts out there but, NO. In whole 1 hr 40 min video not one advice about soil etc. Sad.
I’ve got hundreds of other videos on here that do exactly that. This was a video that’s meant to be a tour of my houseplants and so that is what I did, I gave a tour of my houseplants. If there’s a specific plant(s) you would like care tips on please let me know and I will direct you to the appropriate video.
@@AlohaPlantLife I watch house plants videos on UA-cam for years only now Google algorithm decided to suggest your channel to me. From the point of view of the viewer to see large array of happy plants and compare why are they so with other not so happy is extremely fast learning (plus appreciating your effort ) for about an hour and forty minutes. Fiew sentences about care would not make it too long. Yes I could dig bowels of YT for your care videos but this is not why I watched your tour. The major reason why your plants look so good is the amount of light they have in your house in my opinion. Tell Toby he is an amazing Cat and I adore him.
@@Byrod1it is a "Houseplant Tour", a format which doesn't usually include care advice for each plant. How long would it end up if that was the format of a Houseplant Tour which can include hundreds of plants? Edited to say that there is a huge amount of helpful info about growing these plants throughout the video.
That was a great video, enjoyed it all the way to the end. Have to be honest, some of my favorite parts were when Toby grabbed some camera time! He is such an adorable bundle of fur. Warms my heart to see how he just wants to be with his Momma all the time. Adore him!
Well I think we all know he’s the real star of the show 🐈❤️
I love Toby, and he is my favorite part of the video. He's a beautiful 🐈 and the shower 🚿 scene is my favorite. RIP Toby... we'll always love you😊❤
Just found your channel and I appreciate that you’re also showing how to style plants. Most channels have them on shelving which is not appealing. Thank you!🌿
I definitely like it to feel like the plants are part of my space and not just books on a shelf 💚
Drea I have to say what an awesome video ty for sharing this with us! Your plants are all lovely and you have such a great variety. Another thing I really like is that you use your plants as decor and don't just have them hidden away in a crowded cabinet like so many UA-camrs seem to do! I like to see plants that are displayed and growing using good old natural light and at times lack of natural light lol. Your passion for your plants really shows and I prefer your style compared to the ones that hoard hundreds of plants into cabinets and plant rooms all smooshed together 🤣
Thanks! I like to be able to see and enjoy my plants. Plus when I can see everyone I don’t have to worry about forgetting to water someone because they’re hidden behind someone else on a shelf😜
😍OMG....I could just live in the bathroom and Toby waiting at the shower is the adorable thing every.😻
It's certainly so adorable. He for the most part waited so patiently through the whole video to get his shower time
Janee’, I was at Aldi last week, and on the way out from the corner of my eye I saw large plants in the distance, but was trying to get back home and out of the cold!🥶🤣🤣🤣
Now, I wish I had checked out the plants. Plus, I want another peace Lily. That one you bought is HUGE!!
To prevent root rot, you can add lots of pumice and orchard bark to the soil. And since Peace Lilies are such “vocal” plants, don’t water them until they begin to flop. To me, that would be a LOT of water if you go the water-only route.
Good luck with your Aldi plants. They are a steal and I am so glad for you, dear.🪴🧡🪴❤️😊
What a beautiful boy. That made me laugh. I am so sorry for your loss. ❤
I have success with Watermelon peperomia in Ca. Fuller plant more light! Adapt plant Slowly to eastern direct morning(best) sunlight or filtered through curtains or shade cloth Lol in brighter location.
Perfect leaves-- maintain ph 6.5 When ph is off you get deformed leaves. Once leaves are deform they stay deform, baby leaves must grow in perfect. I water and fertilize ph corrected.
Plant easily rots with saturated soil. When I water I let drain completely then suck out any extra drops out of pot by sitting pot on toilet paper.
Watermelon peperomia is my wishlist plant from the 80's !!!
Just curious what fertilizer you use?
@@AlohaPlantLife I believe that the Australians success with watermelon peperomia is due indirectly to balanced ph 6.5 to 7 either by 1 fertilizing organically with fish emulsion and sea weed extract(helps root grow and prevents dormancy or slow growth)which balances the ph organically or 2 with a ph balanced Hydroponic nutrient foliage focus but any expensive ph balanced Hydroponic nutrient for cannabis here in the US would work and the way to go if you don't mind spending the money. Dynagro is cheaper and has all the nutrients but is not ph balanced and you must balance the ph yourself.
I use the cheapest DIY Hydroponic mix --Master blend. 1/4 tsp calcium nitrate, 1/4 tsp miracle-gro(or any water soluble fertilizer with micros), 1/8 tsp Epsom salt in a gallon of distilled water. Since I'm to cheap to buy distilled water I use 2/3 my tap water and 1/3 rain water(this mixture give me the right ph in my area, other places may vary). I Make my own ph buffer by neutralizing vinegar with egg shells in a large container. I want excess egg shell to vinegar so that after it stops fizzing the resulting liquid is in the right ph. I add 1 Tbs of this neutralized vinegar to the 1 gallon fertilizer solution. I water my watermelon peperomia with this solution. The first watering of each month I water with just plain water to flush excess salts and fertilizer. And of course drain and sit the pot on toilet paper. Sitting the pot on something absorbent like toilet paper to suck up extra water is a life saver and absolute must after a repot when the roots are damaged. I fertilize organically lightly on top of this since I believe that organic matter helps maintain the proper ph, but the main thing is to stop watering at the wrong ph. I believe watermelon peperomia look great from the nursery because potting soil is ph adjusted but watering with water with the wrong ph will slowly change the ph of the soil in the pot thus deformed leaves:(
Lovely! I love your distribution/density of plants! You have plenty and plenty of variety while still allowing for each plant to be appreciated. And they all look so good too! Loved it!
Thank you 💚
Hi my dear friend thank you so much for a wonderful full house hold tour really enjoyed watching the video. You have some beautiful house plants hugs and kisses from grandma, Sandy, and Debbie.
I love all your videos. Your voice is calming and I've learned so much from you Thank you for sharing ❤ 🌿
You are so welcome💚
Thoroughly enjoyed your 2023 Houseplant Tour! Many thanks. You have such beautiful and well cared for plants and you’ve grown your UA-cam Channel with excellent content. Congratulations on a very successful first year for your Channel. Well done! 👌🪴🥰
Thank you so much!
I’ve never seen a cat drawn to water like that, haha! I love Toby content 😊
He’s literally water OBSESSED! He’s actually meowing at the shower door as I am typing this lol
I enjoyed your video so much! I’m giving you my support! I love plants too.
Awesome! Thank you!💚
You are a wonderful person with such beautiful plants. ☺️
Thank you💚
Ok. I agree Toby is a goof ball. 😂 doesn't know he's a cat...for sure.
I have a Peperomia Watermelon…I found mine was getting leggy, leaves splitting and eventually dying and falling off.
I knew it wasn’t a water problem so it had to be lighting. And that was it. This was going to be its last chance (I also had a Harmony’s Gold Dust Woman in the same pot).
I put the pot in direct sun/part shade (south facing window), and within the
past couple of weeks it has so many new GOOD leaves! I treat her like my succulents. She gets a good drink 1-2 times a month in the winter, maybe every 10 days in the summer.
Now with the correct lighting she is growing.
😂😂😂 Toby is such a goof! I've had cats my entire life, and I've never had one that liked water like Toby does! That is too cute! Sorry. I got such a kick out of Toby I forgot about the plants. Oops! Beautiful plants! Thank you for the tour! 😃
He is definitely a total goofball and a very unique cat❤️
Love your plants! You make we want more and I have 50! Watermelon peperomia is my favorite, maybe give it another try with a new plant because yours looks sad. Only tips are well draining soil and it loves to be snug in its pot!
Lovely plants,💚☘️🌱🌵💚
You don't have to break the leaf you can just cut it. It will shoot off a new branch. I've done it twice.
Oh my gosh I can’t wait for next year’s tour to see before and after how the beautiful plants look. Thank you for so much working care of that you put into this video. Hugs and kisses from grandma Sandy, and
You are so welcome!
Sure it's too late by now...but regarding the begonia maculata... maybe you can place a small stake in the pot and tie it back to support it in further or pull the whole cluster together leaving a lot of growth around the entire plant again
Make sure you feed during and after flowering.. They use a lot of energy to push out those beauties :)
Thanks for the tip!
Wow .. my dream house is full of plants , just like yours 😍😂
Hello! Just found your channel. Congrats on the upgrade and really cute plants. I plan to subscribe & watch more 😎💯
Awesome! Thank you!💚
I have just discovered you and really enjoyed your house plant tour. You have a wonderful collection. I loved Toby's cameo appearances!
Thanks so much! 😊
@@AlohaPlantLife 🩷🤗🩷
I don't know how you did all that in one go.
Thanks, that was great. 👍💚
Glad you enjoyed it💚 My arm was definitely tired from holding the gimbal with the camera on it by the end.
Guttation: I'm finding a happy medium with my Alocasia. If I water immediately when the soil dries, and just let it run through, it doesn't guttate. At least during the winter. My Schismatoglottis (the same as you have) has never guttate. What I was doing before, is "water well until the soil was fully moisturized" the Alocasia 1:13:04 seemed to get too much water. I'm extremely new to both plants so the learning curve is quick.
Spider Mites: I've decided that a monthly leaf wash/wipe down may be really helpful.
The awful cold snap we had was nerve wracking. The house got down to 60...but for the most part, my plants managed to deal with it. I did "look for you" down here when you were visityou parents and sister, but this city is so darned huge, I knew I wouldn't see you. Anyhoo...hope what I'm saying makes sense.
Lowes was pretty much the only place I ventured out this time anyways because of the whole newborn thing ❤️
Beautiful plant collection. My ctenanthe burle marxii loves sitting right next to an east facing, distilled water, and fertilizer regularly. She grows like crazy!
I love all the plant tours, your plants and the set up are beautiful!! I struggle with my Brandi, any tips on soil or how to get it to grow?
Brandi has been giving me troubles too. I’m not sure what her deal is. Recently moved her to that window so we’ll have to see how she does there
Well, I think it's close to a year from the date this video was done.!? Should we be expecting an updated video for the year of growth with these houseplants in your care? I hope so, looking forward to it. TFS Drea! 💦😁🌱🌼🌿
Working on it! Should be out in early January💚
Your plants are A-MA-ZING! Great video 💕
Thanks so much! 😊
I am so jealous of your calathea Rattlesnake. I am on my third one and I juat cannot get it right! Yet it is one of my favs ❤
Stick with it, and if you haven’t checked out my video on how care for it and other plants in the prayer plant family that might help you. Here’s a link to that video: ua-cam.com/video/xTmi-t61jAQ/v-deo.html
Plants are beautiful and love the shelves….. TOBY ROCKS!!
Thank you!
Hi from Trinidad 😁🇹🇹 The plant that you called Setosa is really Grey Star!
Hi! Grey Star is a common name, setosa is the scientific name💚
Probably an Aglaonema Wishes since my Dalmatian doesn't seem to ever get almost solidly colored like I see some of your leaves being.
I really wish there was a law against generic plant labels “Aglaonema species” lol
OK, sooooooo we definitely want to see Toby have a shower
Keep watching to the very end🐈❤️
@@AlohaPlantLife great minds think alike. I find plant people are usually animal people. We are tenders and love caring for life.
@@leahnelson771 So true! 💚
I am just getting into plants and jeez is it addicting. Great video. I would love info or link for the holders on the wall. the metal circle ones... Love them...
I got them from Nebraska Furniture Mart💚
I love your video. You have some really cool ideas. Your decoration talents are awesome.
Thank you so much!💚
All are beautiful
Please send cuttings
Just came across your channel & I am really enjoying what I see. Love your plant collection on those beautiful shelves. Would you mind sharing where you bought them?
Welcome!💚 I bought those shelves from Nebraska Furniture Mart
@@AlohaPlantLife thank you so much! Great find. I’ll be watching your videos for sure; such great plant tips.
Hi. I love your videos. Where did you get the round metal wood shelves ?
Nebraska Furniture Mart!
Hi Drea! I'm new to your channel and I'm loving your content. I'm currently battling a mild to moderate spider mite infestation. I've sprayed down every. single. one of my plants with your diy pesticide and scrubbed the bejeesus out of the leaves and stems on the plants that were actually affected as far as I could tell with my handy dandy magnifying glass. I even vacuumed the walls😳I am isolating some of my plants in my gym, but it's really cold and dark in there right now. I'm wondering whether it's safe to put my plants back (particularly my huge monstera that I can't really put anywhere other than my windowless shower) if I continue to treat them weekly. I'm getting really stressed out about losing plants because they're sitting in cold, dark places and could really use some reassurance!🥺
You just have to use your best judgment as to whether you’ve got it under control yet or not. You definitely don’t want to be spreading it to more plants, that’s just going to stress you out even more.
Can you please tell me where you got those shelves from I live them
They’re from Nebraska Furniture Mart: www.nfm.com/kalalou-round-wood-shelves-set-of-3/57912800.html
Love your round melt/wood shelves were did you get them?
Nebraska Furniture Mart!
How did you bring back the stromanthe?
I just treated it for the bacterial infection it had on it’s leaves until it was gone
How on earth do you keep your cats out of the plants?? I need he!p! Lol
So with Toby I just got lucky. He was already older when I started getting into plants and he really never showed in interest in messing with them. When I got Theo and George I didn’t know what to expect. Luckily George could care less about them. Theo on the other hand, knows I don’t want him messing with them so when he wants my attention he purposely goes and messes with them and will continue to do so until I give him whatever it is he wants which is highly annoying🙄 The rest of the time he doesn’t give them a second thought.
❤🐈🚿😅
Obviously she is accomplished house plant grower she could give a lot of pointers about soil, watering, humidity to a lot of struggling house plant enthusiasts out there but, NO. In whole 1 hr 40 min video not one advice about soil etc. Sad.
I’ve got hundreds of other videos on here that do exactly that. This was a video that’s meant to be a tour of my houseplants and so that is what I did, I gave a tour of my houseplants. If there’s a specific plant(s) you would like care tips on please let me know and I will direct you to the appropriate video.
@@AlohaPlantLife I watch house plants videos on UA-cam for years only now Google algorithm decided to suggest your channel to me. From the point of view of the viewer to see large array of happy plants and compare why are they so with other not so happy is extremely fast learning (plus appreciating your effort ) for about an hour and forty minutes. Fiew sentences about care would not make it too long. Yes I could dig bowels of YT for your care videos but this is not why I watched your tour. The major reason why your plants look so good is the amount of light they have in your house in my opinion. Tell Toby he is an amazing Cat and I adore him.
@@Byrod1 I wish I could tell Toby that for you but my most recent video was about how I unfortunately lost him to cancer two weeks ago today 😭💔
@@AlohaPlantLife I saw that video yesterday. Sometimes life on earth is hard to take. All the best for you 💖
@@Byrod1it is a "Houseplant Tour", a format which doesn't usually include care advice for each plant. How long would it end up if that was the format of a Houseplant Tour which can include hundreds of plants?
Edited to say that there is a huge amount of helpful info about growing these plants throughout the video.
ENJ💚YED Y💚UR PLANT T💚UR!!! I Paused It Sometimes... S🟢 I Could Get ... S💚ME PLANT CARE D💚NE!!!
This video is to long I see that you like to take
You’re entitled to your opinion and yes it is longer than 99% of my other videos but sometimes it’s just gotta be that way💚