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s plant blog nearly three years ago i had no idea what i wanted to do with it three year ago me and now me still have that in common but i know now that i don t want to do what i did then one of my early posts here was about sting of pearls well kind of there s a lot of babble about my favorite purse polka dots and jackie kennedy in that post i m not really sure looking back what i was going for with all that but i digress i d been caring for this particular plant for a bout a month and i really thought i had everything figured out i gave some care tips in between moments of pontification about bourbon and kate spade and polka dots and those care tips are not inaccurate if you read about how to care for a sting of pearls most places on the internet you will probably read something very similar to what i said care tips to remember they love light yay light but it shouldn t be beating down on them don t over water those little pearls they soak it up and store it for later those strings they re like stems and they re delicate so be careful with them but and then i went on to explain how easy they are to propagate which is actually true but what i didn t spend enough time on is how incredibly fickle this plant is and how easy it is to kill i ve said it before i m awful with succulents truly terrible with them but somehow i m even worse at this particular variety and so of course i ve decided to try again in my late friday night plant ordering spree i decided to order one each of the plants from my most killed list and document how they re doing new string of pearls i shall call you lucy enter the new sting of pearls and what i have not yet verified as the best advice ever but what came in as a comment on facebook in a thread in which the plant murder of succulents in general and string of pearls in specific was being discussed emily f says you have to water these little divas from the bottom up yep you read that right so this new lil devil will be cared for using only the bottom up watering method never put water on the top soil let them sit in a little bowl of water and it will soak it up from the bottom but wait until it s totally dried out before you water it like no moisture at all if it s say a 6 inch pot that would be around once a month emily f plant genius will it make a difference well i sure hope so but wait there s more this string of pearls and a few other plants we ll discuss later were delivered by hammer vine yesterday afternoon they were the second of the orders i made late friday evening last week and totally the last plants i m allowing myself to buy this month though i should note that i have a special planter and succulent on order from a cute creepy etsy shop that has still yet to arrive so look for that good news soon but that was actually the first plant i bought this year so it doesn t count back to the string of pearls and this plant delivery before the order arrived i received an email i packed your order myself the pearls and spider plant have been freshly watered string of pearls are more prone to rotting than other succulents at the shop we always hang them right in the window or keep them directly under our grow lights janelle from hammer vine now what is this i had always thought they shouldn t have the direct light shining right at them because you know i read it on the internet but according to janelle who i am suddenly willing to trust with my plant s life and perhaps my own direct light is exactly what these fickle high maintenance little suckers need to keep them from rotting and dying so armed with new information from two women who seem to know what they re talking about i feel like i m read to start this string of pearls adventure again with some hope of keeping it alive for the long haul this time i mean given my track record here it s not terribly likely but anything is possible right featured image by kara eads on unsplash portland plant delivery solabee january 21 2021 january 21 2025 leave a comment monday morning i was really taking my time diving into my day my cat was fussing i was feeling the stress of all that s happening in our world and i was listening to an awesome playlist shared by a woman named naj on twitter curated on spotify that s based off the late james baldwin s record collection i ignored a call from an unknown caller and sat down to drink some coffee and check in with friends i also glanced at my email because it s a habit a bad habit even when it s not a work day for me i still tend to keep one eye on my personal inbox and thank goodness i did because there was an email from solabee the awesome olivia had tried to call me to let me know that two of the plants i ordered were actually out of stock and she wanted to know if they could swap them out with some other plants or if i would prefer a refund and just the rest of my order now i don t know about you but to me the only thing better than getting new plants is surprise new plants so not only was i sitting here emailing back and forth getting great customer service and over email instead of having to talk on the phone i hate the phone i was getting surprise plants unfortunately one of the plants that was out of stock was the 6 curly spider plant that i ordered in an attempt to prove to myself and the world that i could keep a spider plant alive perhaps this is for the best perhaps solabee was being guided by the mysterious hand of the universe to keep me from killing another spider plant right out of the gates this year no big deal my other plant order is also scheduled to include a spider plant i ll try again and again and probably again my replacement for that plant was the gorgeous monstera adansonii that i wrote about earlier this week it s hanging where the poor sad dead spider plant was and so far it seems perfectly happy and content in the corner where it is getting plenty of indirect natural light enough about plants that i may or may not kill let s talk a little about solabee now shall we as i briefly mentioned on monday they seem to be a flower shop first and a plant shop second but after a little looking into this portland woman owned business i think i may have jumped to a conclusion there they have two locations one called solabee flowers botanicals and the second called solabee northwest i didn t know about solabee pre pandemic so i ve never been to their shop but they make the experience of buying plants from them pretty effortless and i really value the kindness and customer service they ve brought to the experience as i mentioned above they reached out directly by phone and email to resolve a problem as soon as it came up they worked with me to make sure i would be happy with my order and were just so freaking nice in the process that i found myself delighted that the changes were happening the order arrived on time with no further complication the human who delivered it wore a mask left the plants neatly at my door and knocked before wandering away i also received an email notification that my delivery had been made the plants that arrived were happy and healthy and in good shape and my favorite little touch was the notecards for each plant that arrived with the order not an illegible plant stake with tiny font that didn t exactly print correctly no hand scrawled note of what it was that i needed to try to decipher with special handwriting examination four neatly printed little cards one for each plant telling me what it is and how best to care for it what am i saying here if you are in portland and want some plants delivered by all means order from this awesome woman owned shop i d also highly recommend you check out their floral designs because wow stunning want to visit their shop solabee north is located on the sunny corner of n albina and n killingsworth street our conservatory style shop contains a bounty of rare and unusual plants a build your own terrarium station and a collection of locally crafted wares and art the shop also houses the solabee floral design studio where designers whip up inspiring bouquets daily walk in flower orders are welcome from solabeeflowers com my next purchase from solabee i don t know but i can tell you without a doubt that there will be a next purchase okay okay if you force me to think about it i will probably get a rhaphidophora tetrasperma sometime soon because i ve been wanting one for what feels like forever and they have them and if i order that well i don t want it to be a wasted trip with just the one plant so i d be likely to also get myself a philodendron birkin too because just look at those stripes details site https www solabeeflowers com twitter solabeeflowers instagram solabeeflowers they have two locations solabee flowers botanicals 801 n killingsworth st portland or 97217 503 307 2758 hello solabeeflowers com solabee northwest 1759 nw 24th ave portland or 97210 503 278 9077 nwstore solabeeflowers com ps upon further reflection i have just added like three more plants to the mental list of what i will order from them next time so i should definitely wait until next month when i have a refreshed plant budget and have finished moving the plants that are currently in my house around to make room for more leafy friends featured image taken from solabeeflowers com say swiss cheese january 19 2021 1 comment today we re going to talk about the monstera adansonii commonly referred to as the swiss cheese plant or swiss cheese vine when i first got back into all this planting goodness monsteras of all kinds were alllll the rage i went into a plant shop as a newby plant lover years ago and told the clerk what i was looking monstera deliciosa and described it and said i d also heard it called the swiss cheese vine ands the overly self assured counter person corrected me rudely like have you ever seen the movie high fidelity i felt like i was talking to the plant shop version of jack black s character they had knowledge but no interest in sharing the plant l joy it turns out they didn t have the monstera i was after which is the one we re going to talk about today but they did have a different variety of monstera i bought it quietly without exploring much more of the wonderful stock the shop had to offer because while i have no problem being corrected i don t like being treated like i m stupid especially when i m new to something i digress back then i did get a plant that i did wind up liking but it wasn t this plant and i didn t want to go back to that shop for more than a year because i was so on edge about asking anyone there for help i ve since gotten over my fear of the shop and of looking like i don t know anything when it comes to plants when it comes to plant shopping i embrace my inner know nothing and keep to shops that invite curiosity back to the monsteras they were all the rage when i started my plant obsession they seem to be still and i get the appeal something about their deep green color and adorable fenestrations is delightful and alluring wait a moment what was that word i used which one adorable delightful alluring no no no none of those the f word ahhhhhh you mean fenestrations yeah i just dropped that plant term in there like i ve been using it for forever and like all of you totally know exactly what i was talking about and who knows maybe i have i haven t and maybe you do but i can tell you if you google the definition of fenestration the answer you most commonly get will not be applicable to plants it will talk about windows and doors on the elevation of a building or a surgical procedure where a new hole is created monstera adansonii from solabee but we re going to take our notes from the botany term after all this is the english language since when should a word have only one definition in the plant world a fenestration refers to natural holes in the leaves of some species of plants i want to take a moment and define natural too since nature can be considered a whole lot of things it means that the leaves of the plant grew with holes in it not that it was poked by a branch or nibbled by a creature simply put it means naturally occurring holes or in some cases what looks like slices in the leaves of certain species of plant and monsteras are the plant that most modern plant lovers seem to think of in this category so let s welcome this lovely new plant to the house of kaos it was almost a surprise two of the plants i ordered on friday evening wound up being out of stock this was one of the replacement options i was offered i literally squealed with delight at the chance to add this hanging basket of swiss cheese goodness to my living room i do already have one smaller adansonii that i m trying to train on a hoop of sorts i ve done nothing to harm that plant which i ve had for a few months but it also isn t growing prolifically either it s living in the same area as my monstera deliciosa since the same type of care is indicated for the two plants hopefully that means i ll keep this new gorgeous plant alive tips from the card that came with the plant light thrives best in bright indirect light water let the topsoil dry 1 2 on top watering about once every 7 10 days depending on size and light tips monsteras are tropical aroids and do best when they climb on a trellis or moss pole splits in the leaves occur when the plant reaches maturity and it s growing in bright light well you and i both know that when they say splits they really mean fenestrations featured image by 王维家 on unsplash is of a different variety of monstera portland plant delivery ecovibe january 18 2021 january 18 2021 leave a comment on an early december day way back before the global pandemic after a company holiday brunch i was wandering around ne alberta street my partner wandered with me a while and then headed off for a meeting but i chose to stay and wander more ne alberta in case you are unfamiliar is full of some amazing food art and shops i had a couple of bags in my arm containing some christmas gifts after wandering into countless other great little places but this one shop had caught my eye while i was walking with my partner it caught my eye because aside from just looking soooooooooooo cool it also had plants i could see plants from the door plants from the windows plants plants plants and also some cute home goods and gifts i didn t want to bore my partner to death by dragging him into a shop where i would totally ignore him for an hour while i drooled over green things so even though i was done with anything i needed to do i wandered back up the street to pop into this little shop i had never heard of ecovibe although it turns out i had heard about it i just didn t remember the name my friend courtney had told me all about it and i actually ran into her and her husband moments after i arrived i crouched down as soon as i walked in the door as there was a multi tier cart full of cacti and succulents and i just thought they would make the c...