Houseplants I Don't Talk About + WHY 🌿 Plants I Never Show You

Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. If you're new here, hi, my name's Claire and this is Yoli. I make videos all about houseplant care, sharing tips and tricks I've learned over the years to help keep your plants happy and healthy, and today I thought I would take you through some plants that I absolutely love but I just rarely show on my channel and I don't talk about that much. I will talk about maybe why I don't talk about them that much, but yeah, they're ones that I really love and I am excited to share them with you. So yes, I hope you enjoy it, let's get into it. So the first plant that I very rarely speak about on my channel is the variegated tradescantia flumensis and this is one that I really, really love and I think probably the reason that I don't talk about this plant more is just because it is on the whole a very low maintenance plant. I don't really do much to it, it's never really given me any issues and for that reason I just haven't kind of got around to making more content on it, but I never used to be a massive tradescantia person. I mean, I know when you say tradescantia, for me the kind of pink, purple, really bright kind of, for me a little bit garish plants pop into my head, but I have got quite a few green varieties in my collection now and this is one that I just think it's so incredibly beautiful. I'm not usually one that's a massive fan of yellow variegation either, like the Monstera Aurea has never been one that particularly appeals to me and although this one does come in quite yellowy with its new growth, once it kind of hardens off and matures it does go very, very pale and white and I just think that is so pretty and I just am really amazed by the different kind of, I don't know, the different, I was going to say the different styles of variegation, that's not the right way of saying it, but the different forms and patterns of variegation that this plant gives me, like I've had sections that are pretty much half moon leaves before, I've got some down here that are almost completely white but just kind of little green stripes of veination just there. It's also one that is ridiculously fast growing. In the time that I've owned this plant, which has been I think about eight or nine months now, it's given me the most ridiculous amount of growth. I have it on the shelf above my bed trailing down and the amount of times I've had to prune this plant back and propagate it, it does also propagate ridiculously easily so yeah, it's just, it's just a fabulous plant in every way and I just think it looks really gorgeous and luscious and it's got lots of lovely textures and lots of lovely kind of dimensions within it but as I say, it really doesn't require much work at all. In my bedroom where I keep mine, I don't have the greatest humidity levels, especially when the sun hits that room, it gets so warm, the air gets really dry and this is one that's really never complained and if you're on my Patreon then you will have seen that before I went away the last time, this is one of the plants that I was a little bit concerned about. It had gone completely bone dry and some of the growth on top had started to die back and although it's not, although it's not maybe as full as it could be on top, it has literally just with a watering started to fill out again by itself so if you're a beginner or if you just want something really, really easy to care for then I would highly recommend this one. As I say, when you've got lots and lots of houseplants to keep on top of, especially some that are a lot kind of higher maintenance and maybe require lots of special care needs, it is quite nice to have some others as well that you just don't really have to worry about and that's this is a plant for me that I really feel that way about and I think as I say for that reason, I just don't feel the need to talk about it that much because it never gives me any drama and it just kind of gets on with things, stays happy and healthy and looks after itself to a certain extent so yeah but it is one that brings me so much joy and I do absolutely adore and this next one's one that I picked up from a local garden centre when I first moved into my new flat and I don't know if I've ever spoken about it in a video before but it is the Hoya Susie Q and I was just really intrigued when I saw this plant because it looks to me very similar to the Hoya Crimson Queen, even its new growth comes in quite pinky and I personally love the Hoya Crimson Queen, it's I'd say one of my favourite Hoyas and I saw this one, I saw it for a very good price and I just thought I'll give it a go and it came on this trellis, I haven't kind of changed much up with it in the time that I've had it but since I've got it, it has given me all of this growth and I moved in in November so November, December so about nine months ago now and bearing in mind Hoyas can be quite slow to grow, I think that is insane growth in the time that I've had it and I'm, I kind of have thought about maybe kind of doing a bigger trellis and obviously kind of this bit here that's tendril and getting that on a trellis as well but then part of me is also thinking because this is one long vine I could train it to climb and I know I probably wouldn't be able to do that in the same way as I have done for some of my other climbing plants because Hoyas do like to wind around and grip onto things but I may be thinking about getting a piece of garden wire or something like that and running it up one of the beams in my flat and training it to climb around that, I haven't fully made up my mind yet but I just love the texture of the plants and I think it would look really lovely climbing one of the beams and also in the first time that I've had it, it has just started to bloom for me, annoyingly the bloom hasn't fully popped yet so you can't see all of the flowers but it looks amazing, I'm so excited to see what its flowers look like because as I say I'm very familiar with the Hoya Crimson Queen and that one's bloomed for me multiple times but already this looks like it might be a little bit different so I'm really intrigued about that and this is one that just lives in one of my window boxes again in my bedroom, I feel like quite a lot of these plants in fact that I'm going to talk about are bedroom plants and I think in a lot of my videos I focus very much on the plants that are kind of here in my main space and I don't always talk about my bedroom ones as much, but yeah this one's getting on really well in the window box, it seems very happy there, it's obviously giving me lovely growth, the only annoying thing and this is probably, I probably need to do a repot actually but it does dry out so so so quickly like I watered it less than a week ago and already you can see some of the leaves are very very curly again and I think that's just because at this time of year my window box does get not a huge amount of full sun but it does just get very warm in that room and it's just maybe a little bit too much for this plant, so yeah I'm potentially thinking about getting it into semi-hydro as well, the Hoyas that I've put into pond and just semi-hydro mix in general recently have done amazingly, so that is a potential thought, but yeah what are your opinions on letting it climb the wall, what would you do? Because I feel like once I unwind this whole vine it's gonna be, it's gonna be very very long and I think it would look lovely, yeah I'm undecided about that so do let me know your thoughts, but yeah it's just a really gorgeous it's making me incredibly happy and I think I need to talk about it more and this little one is such an underrated house plant but it's one that I just really adore, again it's a very low maintenance plant but it is the bare paw cactus and I know that mine's very small at the moment but it is growing quite quickly, I've had it since it was teeny teeny tiny and I just love everything about this one, it is literally so incredibly soft, it's very good at telling you when it needs of water as well because I mean at the moment I'm just giving it a kind of a very gentle squeeze and I can feel that it's a little bit squishy and that usually means that it's just a bit dehydrated and it could do with a drink, so it's one that I kind of just again leave alone to do its thing, I'm only watering it maybe once every two weeks at the moment and as I say it is very warm but it is a very drought tolerant plant and it can cope very well with long periods of not being watered, but yeah I just think it's adorable like I love the little the little bare pawiness of it, I think it's just so sweet, it's a very rewarding plant to grow and although I don't have to do much to it, it just it makes me really happy caring for this plant and it's just yeah it's just very different from anything else that I've got in my collection and just makes me makes me really happy, it's just a very happy looking little plant I think and it's one that I really do wish that I'd got sooner, I've seen some pictures that people have posted of their big bare paw cactuses and oh my goodness they can grow to be huge so I would love it if at some point mine did that for me, but yeah again I think the reason that I probably don't talk about this little one that much is just because it doesn't require a lot of care, I do a lot of the time just leave it alone to do its thing and yeah again it's never given me any grief so I feel like with most of the plants actually that I'm going to talk about they're probably all quite good beginner plants because none of them have really given me any drama and again that's the reason why I haven't featured them in videos that much, but yeah I would highly recommend this one, it's just lovely, it's adorable, it requires virtually no care and as I say it is just a very rewarding plant to grow and then this one's one that I've had in my collection for quite a long time and I know I have spoken about probably like a year ago when I was living back at my mum's but it's the Hoya Wayeti tricolour, I think it is so beautiful, I love the variegation on the plant, I love how its new growth comes in quite pinky and then it fades to this kind of gorgeous yellowy green colour, but again I think the reason that I haven't spoken about this plant is just because it hasn't done anything for me in such a long time, there was a point at which it was growing quite quickly and that's when I got it on this trellis and I think it looks lovely on there but since I've moved here I don't even know if it's given me any new growth at all and I know with Hoyas it can be if they just seem to stop growing and everything else seems fine, it can be flat mites that are the issue and I did get this one under the microscope a little while ago and I had a look at it and I couldn't see anything at all and I don't feel like its conditions have changed that much, I mean it's not getting, it's not getting quite as much light as it was getting before but when the rest of the growth looks so healthy I would expect it to still be putting out some, especially having kept this plant at one point in my basement bedroom and that had almost no natural light at all and it still grew for me then so I'm a little bit baffled about this one and as I say it is beautiful, it is such a gorgeous Hoya and I would recommend like if anybody's thinking about getting it I would recommend it but I think you just have to be prepared for the fact that in some conditions and in some home environments it is just incredibly slow. I'm thinking of maybe taking some cuttings of it and trying some of my cabinets and then if the plant starts doing things again then I can pop them back up together and I can get it even fuller. As I say I love it on this trellis but I'm also not super, like I'm thinking maybe, it's not a very tenderly Hoya but I'm thinking maybe I could wind some of its vines round anti-clockwise around something else and maybe that might help to encourage some new growth. Yeah it's lovely but again I don't talk about it because there's nothing going on with it but it is a plant that I would not consider getting rid of. It does still make me happy, I look at it and I think it's beautiful, it almost looks like a gorgeous bunch of flowers because there's so many kind of subtle colours in there and again texture, I think it's got an amazing texture. So yeah if anyone's got any tips for this plant do let me know but that's that's what it's doing for me at the moment and not a lot. And I got this next one back in January at the beginning of this year from Grow Tropicals, it is the Anthurium Bulletus and it's a plant that I am very very excited about still. I am so excited about the potential of this plant, I will put a picture on the screen of what it looks like when it's mature because oh my goodness it's absolutely amazing. But this plant has just been I guess you'd say a bit of a struggle plant for me. Very often Anthuriums can be quite slow growing and they're quite slow to put out new growth and this one hasn't been. This one has given me probably five or six leaves in the time that I've had it but it's kind of doing a weird cycle in the same way as Alocasia can do sometimes. All of its old leaves seem to just be going a little bit crispy and then they often yellow and die off and although this leaf here is looking really quite battered this is probably the healthiest leaf that it's given me in the time that I've had it. So yeah it's a plant that I still feel like I'm very much figuring out. I know I have had a few of you ask about this plant and whether or not I'd make a care video on it and the reason that I haven't is just because I feel like even though I've had it for a while now I'm still very much getting to know this plant and figuring it out for myself and I don't think I'm quite there yet. But yeah as I say it is obviously sizing up like the step up from that leaf to that leaf is pretty significant and you can tell that the lobing of this plant has started to kind of really it's become a little bit more defined and that's the thing that really excited me about this plant is I love lobeness and this one just when it's mature just looks absolutely incredible so so yeah it's it's just I don't know there just hasn't been a huge amount to say about it so far but I can tell it is getting ready to start give me a new a new leaf just there so hopefully now it might have kind of adjusted a little bit and it's going to start doing good things. I mean I know some plants can take a really long time to acclimate to a new space and although it was six months ago now that I got this plant I have known plants take that amount of time to kind of really get used to their new environment so so yeah I'm hoping that this is the start of some lovely new growth to come and I will absolutely keep you updated with it but yeah at the moment I'm I'm just like although I can appreciate how it looks I'm aware it's maybe not that I don't know like it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea but it is the potential of the plant that I'm really really excited about so when it starts giving me lovely lobey leaves I feel like I will be talking about it all the time but for the time being we're just plodding on and hoping that it's gonna kind of sort itself out and give me some lovely new growth soon but yeah it's got a very good root system on it I have I've changed out its substrate a couple of times in the time that I've owned it and I've currently got it in a chunky mix with some lacquer mix through as well and this does seem to have been the best thing that I've tried so far if I can't get it to kind of stop doing the cycling thing then I think I'm probably going to go in with semi-hydro just because again it's done really good things for my anthuriums and I think that's probably a safe shout but I'm hoping that now it's on the right path it should do good things soon and yeah I'll keep you updated and I honestly have no excuse not to talk about this next plant more because I know it's a really popular one it is potentially one of my favorite plants it is the skindapsus argyreus and I have no idea why I don't make more content on this plant just I think just because it's kind of just there and again it's one that doesn't require a huge amount of care I haven't had that many questions about it either so I feel like it's one that I just haven't raved about as much as I probably should have done because it is just the most beautiful plant in the world like if you look at its leaves I love the little speckles of I mean on camera they look white but they're actually kind of silvery and when they catch the light they just sparkle it's just it's just so gorgeous and this one lives on top of my propagation cabinet again my bedroom I think my bedroom plants just get neglected in videos sometimes but it just it just kind of does its thing I water it probably on average about every week and a half two weeks but I let it go pretty much completely dry before I water it through again and it is for a skindapsus it is quite drought tolerant I know some skindapsus can be a little bit funny when it comes to drying out and in my experience this one has been much more resilient compared to the rest so again I think this would probably be a great beginner plant if you're wanting to get into get into house plants get something kind of lovely and trailing you obviously can grow it on a moss pole as well but yeah it's one that I'm just kind of constantly appreciating and I love the look of it I love the way it grows it's very adaptable in regards to lighting and stuff like that it can grow in pretty much full sun and it can also grow in very low light obviously you just need to acclimate it slowly but yeah it's one that gives me no grief it's very pretty it's very lovely it's very hardy and yeah I think it's just awesome and this next one is one that you will have definitely seen behind me if you watch my repotting chats because it's in pretty much the background of every single video but it is my ficus alii and it's one that I really just don't talk about that much and again I don't really know I don't really know why that is it is quite a slow growing plant I feel like mine although I love it I think it could be much fuller and bushier I've got it just by my door over there and although I really like the look of it there and it is happy lighting wise it is a plant that's prone to a little bit of a battering because that tends to be the door that Yoli scratches at if I have to go downstairs and I leave her in this room and for that reason it has definitely got poured and tailed quite a lot but ficus as a genus is one that for quite a few years I really really struggled with I really struggled to kind of find the right balance when it came to watering and I over watered and underwatered quite a lot of them and I lost quite a lot of them but this one in my experience does seem to be incredibly hardy compared to some others that I've tried this one again I will let go to pretty much completely bone dry before I water it through again so at the moment that means I'm only watering it every every couple of weeks which I know seems like a very long period of time but it's giving me beautiful growth it's not in the highest light spot it just seems like a very resilient plant that looks beautiful and doesn't really give me much fuss which is which is really great it's again probably another great beginner plant but yeah I know I always bang on about texture but again the texture of the leaves there's something about maybe you see them in isolation that's almost a little bit anthuriumy like there's something about and it's probably what drew me to the plants in the first place but there's something about the leaves that almost reminds me of very small pallidiflorum leaves and I'm just obsessed with the anthurium pallidiflorum it's one that I really really want to add to my collection and yeah it's just it's just a very simple plant but it's a very a very jolly plant it's one that I really like but as I say it really doesn't require that much care so I just don't think I felt the need to speak about that much it's also one that I haven't really experimented that much with like I haven't tried I haven't tried propagating this plant I haven't really done that much to it in the time that I've had it so I feel like if I do start kind of trying a few new things maybe try notching it taking some cuttings then maybe I will feel the need the need the want to talk about it a little bit more but yeah it's gorgeous I really love it and I will keep you updated on how it goes and if I do do any experimenting because I'm kind of thinking that I might want to now and then this one I was actually sold as a calathea belmarxii but I'm pretty sure it's a calathea annulqua if anybody has confirmation on that then please do let me know in the comments but this is one that again I don't speak about that much and it is honestly the easiest calathea that I have ever owned in my life calathea are very well known for being quite temperamental plants they can give you quite a lot of grief and this one I again do not do much to at all and although it's not perfect like there is a little bit of browning here or there it lives in normal room humidity it's not close to a humidifier it lives just usually it lives just there next to my tv and so it doesn't get any direct sun at all I have recently put it into pond and I've actually I've transferred all of my calatheas over to semi-hydro surprise surprise I'm loving semi-hydro right now um but they've all done well but this one this one has just been easy as pie like literally I just fill up its reservoir I actually haven't checked it in a little while yep it could do with it could do with filling because it is bone dry in there but usually with calatheas if they were to go bone dry they would kind of be very wilty and they'd start giving you lots of issues and just be very dramatic very quickly and as you can see this one is still looking really perky really full really happy and so yeah for that reason I would say it is 100% my easiest calathea and I haven't really had many issues to talk about with this plant again when it comes to pests this one is one that again touch wood I've never had pests with and I think pretty much all of my other calatheas I can say at one point or another I've either encountered spider mites or thrips because they are super susceptible to that and this one just seems really resilient to everything I'm so hoping I haven't just jinxed it but yeah it's just a really wonderful plant I love the blueness to its leaves I love how they're kind of feathery like the venation just makes it look like they're kind of beautiful blue feathers and yeah it's just wonderful it's also got these gorgeous kind of purpley backs of the leaves which I really like because I like a little bit of colour in plants but if if that was on the front of the leaves it would probably be a little bit too much for me I don't know why I'd get overwhelmed by certain colours quite easily um but I get to appreciate this at night time because because it is a prayer plant its leaves kind of close up at night and open during the day so in the evenings I'll often kind of hear it rustling a bit and I'll be able to see the beautiful purple undersides and then in the day it unfolds and looks like this but yeah it's a gorgeous one if you're wanting to get into calatheas then this is probably the one that I would recommend because it's it's as easy as some of my philodendrons in my experience but yeah I really love it and this is one that used to appear in a lot of my favourites videos and I just haven't spoke about it in a really long time not for any particular reason because I do still love this plant but it is the and I just think this is the most wonderful Hoya I know I've said in very old videos that it is like it's just kind of like your classic plant like if you ask somebody to draw a plant it's just it's a very planty plant and the thing that I really love about this Hoya is that although it is very kind of robust it's got the most beautifully like velvet soft leaves it's probably on par with the bare paw cactus in how soft it is and for just from looking at it you wouldn't necessarily think that so yeah I just think it feels beautiful I love the different colours within the leaves like it's kind of got like very dark outer edges to its leaves and then it's quite not pale in the middle but just the shades of green in there just really beautiful and it's not a particularly in my experience tenderly Hoya hence why I am growing it as a and I haven't got it on a trellis or anything like that I think if it did start to tendril then yes I would get it onto a trellis but for the time being it's putting up beautiful new growth and it does seem really happy like this I have also propagated quite a lot of sections of this plant and I personally I've started propagating Hoya in soil more and more nowadays but I do tend to prop in water for this one just because I quite enjoy watching the roots form and I just find it quite fun so that is my go-to method of propagation for this plant in fact I've got one just here a cutting of it the water desperately needs filling up but you can see it's rooted really well in there and I'm thinking that I will probably pop these sections up together at some point and just get it a little bit fuller because I would just love to make this plant gorgeous and big and full and bushy but yeah it's one that I just find very satisfying to grow and it doesn't it's not the fastest grower in the world so I don't always have a lot of updates on this plant but because it isn't that quick to grow when it does give me new growth I just find it yeah rewarding I know I'm using the word rewarding a lot but it is a rewarding plant to grow so yeah another one that I would highly highly highly recommend and then I kind of feel like I'm cheating with this one because I did actually show this plant in a video the other day but prior to that I haven't spoken about this plant in quite a long time it is my philodendron golden dragon and oh my goodness just look at that leaf how beautiful is that this is one that I have had such a journey with like if you've watched my videos for a while then you would have seen I got this plant probably just over a year ago now from green spaces id I want to say this was an import and when I first got it I liked the plant but all of its growth was coming out kind of like how this leaf has here it was just a little bit kind of like crinkled and it didn't look very conditioned and I just kind of thought that that's how the plant grew and so I don't know I just struggled struggled to bond with the plant at first so I did take a lot of cuttings and I sent lots of cuttings out and then as the plant started to regrow that's when it started giving me these beautiful kind of shiny conditioned leaves and that's when I really really really fell in love with it and since then I've kind of not looked back I just find it the most amazing really kind of spectacular plant but also one that really doesn't need a lot of care and I really do love it when you find a plant that just looks so I don't know it looks so glossy and healthy and it looks this is a weird thing to say but it almost looks like you've put in a lot of work to get it to that stage and I genuinely do not do much to this plant at all I've got it again into semi-hydro recently so it's just got a reservoir at the bottom that I fill every now and again but it's another one that's very drought tolerant and it just stays looking really beautiful and giving me new growth it is giving me growth there in pretty much any conditions as well so it kind of ticks all the boxes for me it's another one that I've got on top of my cabinet in my bedroom at the moment it gets no direct sun at all it's in probably medium to low light conditions at the moment and it is still growing and doing lovely things so yeah if if you're if you're feeling how I was feeling towards the beginning of owning this plant I would say definitely stick with it because I'm really glad that I did um and yeah I'm I just can't wait to see what it does for me next I don't know I don't know if it's one that would grow best on a moss because all of its growth is quite condensed and it's very like petiole it hasn't got kind of one clear defined main stem yet so I think maybe I'm just gonna keep it like this but I'm not sure but yeah those are the the 10 that I brought over for this video that I don't speak about that much I have got more I started putting those to the side and kind of thinking about what I was going to talk about and I've got loads of plants that I don't speak about enough and I feel like deserve their moment in the spotlight a little bit more so if you want to see a part two to this video then let me know down in the comments and also let me know some of what your plants would be some that you just feel like you don't I don't know maybe you appreciate but you don't feel the need to talk about that much ones that are just kind of there and happy and bringing your joy but yes I do hope you enjoyed this video and if you did please make sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe to my channel have a lovely day and I will see you in the next 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