spider plants

Thay are lucky 70s coal strikes, postal strikes,tv strikes,electricity strikes and WATER shortages oh how things have changed.

I what a mothering laws tongue

 

Ok - so who wants macrame pot holders then................??

Line up in an orderly fashion.... :rolleyes:

 

I remember when we had the miners strikes when we were all plunged into darkness for hours on end.It was creepy going outside with only a couple of street lights on, but the Hospitals had a boom 9 months later when the birth rate went up,as most people went to bed, with no TV to watch.

I seem to remember, at one point that the dustbin men went on strike so we had mountains of rotting refuse everywhere{I am not sure if we had dustbin bags back then}

In those days we made our own amusement playing hopscotch, french skipping, skipping, hide and seek etc.

Kandy

 

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boys will be boys

 

Den.....Are they any good as sun hats? :D

 

nope! no use at all! :D

We've just found somewhere that sells piggy-back plants! We're having a great nostalgia for the 70s time in this house - all those plants that were in fashion then, and haven't been seen since... :rolleyes:

 

A two foot high straggly shrimp plant, an Aphelandra with two leaves, a mother of thousands (saxifgage) trailing down from the wall unit and now tolmiea (piggy backs) and spiders everywhere!.....I can just imagine. :D

 

I've still got a rubber plant from the 70s along with a yucca, well cuttings from, anyway.

 

I used to like peperomias, and another oddity called the 'dinner plate plant' [might have been an aralia, can't find a similar picture] which had flat leaves increasing in size with age that looked like water lily leaves, growing from a stem like the jade plant has. And the kalanchoe that grows loads of baby plants on the edges of it's leaves.
And the caladium, with beautiful fragile almost transparent leaves in fantastic colours.
And......etc, etc.
I lived in a flat with no garden, so we made a 3' square box lined with tin to hold the plants.

 

"A two foot high straggly shrimp plant, an Aphelandra with two leaves, a mother of thousands (saxifgage) trailing down from the wall unit and now tolmiea (piggy backs) and spiders everywhere!.....I can just imagine. "

Thanks for all the name info, Strongy! And yes, I'll post photos of them all in situ!

:rolleyes:

I seem to have opened a real can of worms here! All these plants I haven't heard about for years!

 

An orgy of reminiscence!

 

Talking of reminiscence; for a few years in the early 70's I was plants manager at Webbs near Droitwich. One of the 'regulars' was a Mrs. Butler (Mitchells & Butlers beers) who was a marvelous old girl always full of fascinating gossip. Virtually blind, she careered through the country lanes from Chaddesley Corbet to Wychbold in her MG with terrifying confidence.

She once asked me to divide her aging Strelitzia and in return gave me an offset of an unidentified Bromeliad that she'd had for over 50 years. It turned out to be Fascicularia bicolor ssp bicolor (formerly 'Pitcairnifolia') - a near hardy plant from Chile.

The original plant is with my mother, who has looked after it for the past 30 years, but I brought an offset back here about 7 years ago. It is now well over 5 feet across and regularly produces golf-ball heads of pale turquoise flowers, surrounded by fiery red bracts and leaves.

Sadly, old Mrs. B is long gone, so are her Strelitzias and her house is now a very smart restaurant. But her 'heirloom' plant is alive, well and ready to go down the generations in my family.

[ 03. July 2006, 02:16 AM: Message edited by: DaveP ]

 

Yes, I've got a 5ft. Yucca aloifolia that we originally brought back as a leafless 'toe' from Majorca in the late '70s. It lived outside in the Midlands until recently, but has become too dangerous now it is approaching eye-height. Somehow I managed to get it back here without being stabbed. It will grow a lot faster here and should get past the face-ripping stage in another few years.

 

Has anyone heard of a "hot water plant"? An old lady I garden for has given me three little ones, and told me that you don't have to give them hot water, they're just called that! But the name isn't known on google images, hot water plant produces some interesting results....
http://images.google.com/images?q=hot+water+plant&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images

 

Dendy, your having a laugh!!! :D