@Cinta, your plants and combinations are very attractive. I love seeing what people can do with houseplants.
I hate to weed and here on the Christmas Tree Farm we have very little space for outside gardening, so that suits me fine. We do have an entire field of different varieties of daffodils that in the Spring is not only a lovely fragrance on my South deck, but the beauty of those particular flowers is such a joy after these miserable winters we have had lately. I love that field in the Spring and it is just a few feet away from my deck. Also, we used to cut and sell them wholesale to the farmers market and now that we do not, it is even more beautiful and they last so long. Of course when they are finished then there is a field of just plain grass.
I was born and raised in Lancaster County, Pa where we had acres of formal gardens at my house and an amazing collection of houseplants. I am sure that is where my love for houseplants and container planting began because as I said I hate to weed and when I was a young girl, our gardeners were drafted and went to fight WWII and that left me and my family to care for all the gardens...which we did of course. One of my favorite fragrant shrubs for a garden is the old fashion lilac...now they have several hybrids that are smaller and can be used in deck containers but I never saw any that could be used as a house plant. I wonder why since their fragrance is so nice, if of course you like that type aroma. Did not mean to get off subject here but I got to thinking of the old fashion garden plants we had years ago for their fragrance and thought of how they could be brought in to add to the warmth of a home. It would be fun to try some of them if you had the space and lighting. Mock orange and honeysuckle are also two old timers that were everyplace many years ago, especially on fences on the PA farms.I remember loving the smell as you drove down the old back roads. Rambling, sorry. Back to the houseplants.
