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Displaying House Plants,

GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
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Having just moved I now need somewhere to display house plants. I can't put them on the windowsills very easily. I do have space for a display table. Does anyone own a special table for houseplants with a drip tray? Perhaps it just doesn't exist. Just to add I don't need lighting  Thankyou for any thoughts you may have. Suze
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    How many plants do you have @GardenerSuze, and will they all be OK in the same location on a display table?
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Plantminded Iv'e got six all need similar conditions so they will be fine on the same table. Maybe Iv'e just imagined that such a think exists!
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    I got a two tier plant stand with drip trays for two plants from that well known online retailer! Try a search there to give you some ideas of other options, there’s some quite nice wooden ones.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Plantminded Great will take a look.. Five of them are Sansevarias,  you helped me a while ago with house plants and I am now hooked on them. They do seem to do so much better in my new home with plenty of natural light. They are always seen as a good plant for a darker corner but full sun here has made for much brighter leaf colour.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Yes, @GardenerSuze, they seem to be very adaptable, I’ve got one on a windowsill in full sun, one in morning sun and the others are in mid room position.  They all seem happy, don’t need much water either and divide easily. If only plants outside were as accommodating 😊.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • Blue OnionBlue Onion Posts: 2,995
    My parents use several shoe drip trays on a table with their plants.  You could fill them with gravel if you want to make them a bit more decorative.     
    Utah, USA.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Blue Onion Not thought of that one a good idea. I could do with some for my shoes too with the recent rain. Thankyou.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    Have you discounted the idea of putting each plant in an outer decorative pot/cache pot @GardenerSuze?  You can then put them wherever you like without worrying about a drip tray.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    All my indoor plants have their own cache-pot which helps with watering as not all need the same water levels.   I have now window-sills wide enough for plant pots so all are on tables or low chests in front of a window except the two whoppers - ficus elastica and benjamina - which stand on the floor.
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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Plantminded I have rounded them up for a photo shoot! Some pots are heavy so perhaps better at ground level. The one in a yellow pot is an Aloe the rest are all Sansevarias. One may need splitting. I do know which one is S Cylindrica and some of the tips are brown a watering issue maybe?

    I have never bothered much with Houseplants but these have done well here next to a sunny south facing patio door. That is where the problem ls, they cannot all stay there.
    Next summer I might stand a couple inside and to link and create space by the door put some outside in their pots on the patio.

    Perhaps a darker spot over the winter months at ground level is the answer.
    Just to add I have seen a garden locally with six of them growing in the ground,. looking very unhappy they were a strange colour.

    Normally I only grow houseplants that I can add to the garden the following summer.
    I have pots of Tradascantia Purple Heart which I am growing for my new raised beds.This photo is more like the hanging gardens of Babylon. I did crop it never mind.

    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
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