Renovation blogger Shayden Whipps has a house packed with plants - and says you can too.
Houseplants seem to be having a moment right now. And why not? They clear the air, look good, and caring for them is therapeutic. But if you don’t want to drop $8150 on a philodendron minima, as per Trade Me’s record houseplant price, nor spend hundreds a week on growing your collection, it might be time to learn the thrifty domestic art of propagation. Commercial growers sometimes grow new plants from tissue culture – using tiny pieces of a parent plant and growing them on agar culture plates. Propagating at home has a similar result in terms of creating a clone of the original.
I think we can safely say I do not possess that.
Joanna Davis/Stuff Crowd-sourced advice However, what I do have, to quote Liam Neeson, is a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. That is ‘picking the brains of others’. I’m a member of two Facebook houseplant groups; mainly I use them for plant porn, admiring the work of others, occasionally committing to memory the name of a plant I may like to acquire some time. But in all honesty, I still can t tell a pothos from a syngonium. Online, my plea for help was met with much advice:
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ASHCOTT 01/21/00011: 10 Berhill, Ashcott, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 9QN: Certificate of Lawfulness for the proposed erection of a single storey extension to the side (NW) garage and store and erection of single storey extension to the rear (SW) elevation.
AXBRIDGE 02/21/00001: Leighton House, St Marys Street, Axbridge, BS26 2BN: Change of use of existing garage to a barbers, erection of 2 no. lit signs to front railings and installation of solar panels.
BADGWORTH 03/21/00004: Hare House, Badgworth, Axbridge, BS26 2QL: Certificate of Lawfulness for the proposed erection of detached garden outbuilding with swimming pool and gym.
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ASHCOTT 01/20/00029: 10 Berhill, Ashcott, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 9QN: Application to determine if prior approval is required for the proposed erection of a single storey extension extending 3.45m from the rear (West) elevation and the erection of a single storey extension to the side (North West) Elevation of the outbuildings.
BAWDRIP 04/20/00011: Mill Barn, Ford Lane, Stawell, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA7 9AG: Retrospective application for the erection of a garage and workshop.
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BRIDGWATER 08/20/00190: Pump House, Albert Street, Bridgwater, Somerset: Variations of Condition 4 of Planning Permission 08/20/00056 (The works will involve the construction of a headwall, replacement eel screen and associated security fencing on the bank of the Bridgwater and Taunton canal.) to allow for and extension of time to the end of March 2021.