Her: “Aloe is a desert plant. It would love full sun the whole day”

Me: “Remember the last time you placed it outside for a few hours and it got all burned up, then you placed it in and got better after a few days? Don’t put it outside. It can’t handle the sunlight”

Her: “<Insert stuff about me being a sheep not thinking on my own>”

Now the plant is all dry and cracked up and burned and close to death.

  • Zeppo
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    1 year ago

    My girlfriend does the opposite. Our house is not facing a good way or with the best windows for growing plants, except for two spots. Until I finally nixed it, he kept taking plants and putting them in the middle of the house or in the back of our north-facing office. They’d start dying and I’d have to point out that plants aren’t decorations, they actually need light…

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      1 year ago

      That entirely depends on the plant. There are many that can live in shade. Anything that would usually live on a forest floor can survive. We have a north facing house and our living space is very green, try; devil’s ivy, calathia, and ferns.

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        1 year ago

        Adding ZZ plant to this list. I have one that thrives where many others have died.

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        1 year ago

        We have a couple plants that survive in the shade in the office, like a Golden Pothos and a Bloodleaf, plus a bamboo in the middle of the house that has somehow stayed healthy in just a giant vase of water with nearly no light for years. A Ficus died, though, and a couple others.