Forget green fingers! Readers on 12 hardy house plants for terrible gardeners
Last modified on Mon 24 May 2021 12.28 EDT ‘My Aloe juvenna lives happily in a pot I found on the street’ Ellie’s Aloe juvenna I picked up my Aloe juvenna from Ikea as a 3cm stub wrapped in plastic 10 years ago. It was one of my first houseplants and survived several moves from Manchester to Peckham to Putney to a narrowboat, and is now living happily on my bathroom windowsill in a pot I found on the street. It has grown into a beautiful, trailing succulent and has survived variable watering and chunks breaking off during the house moves – nothing seems to bother it. I’m currently p...
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