#calatheas

Plant of the Day

Friday 5 January 2024

Stamford Botanics, Lincolnshire, Uk, has a diverse range of houseplants displayed over two floors in one of Stamford’s oldest buildings with an impressive beamed ceiling. Included in the foliage plants was the distinctive Calathea ‘Vittata’, a native of South America, with ornamental leaves having white stripes which appear hand painted.  

So i have had a lot go on in the past 12 hours. A lot. One big thing being having to let go of my old blog

Okay so i got hardly any sleep, thanks to insomnia and dickhead neighbours. Then, okay so i took my phone to a repair shop. I shit you not. They wanted to hold it till next Monday, to then give it back to me the following Thursday/Friday! I said i cannot do that, also like, the speaker literally got the tiniest amount of water damage! This could be a 30 minute repair! No way is it 2 weeks worth! So i took it to another shop, they only wanted it for 4 hours to clean it. I cannot begin to tell you the stress of all of this, the bad vibes, and the anxiety, like, i just couldn't. Well 4 hours later i go to pick it up, they tell me the speaker is fine, i pay £15 and leave happy. I dunno what to think. When i have the phone at 50% or less it's definitely okay, but above 50% and it still sounds like an early 2000's device, so like, they SAID they fixed it but I'd say they just improved it, and it is not fixed. So now I'm like, what do i do? Do i just suck it up and have a crappy speaker, or go 2 weeks without a phone to fix a freaking speaker?

Anyway, i told myself no more plants, not until i either got a ZZ plant or a golden pothos. But i saw some calethea/prayer plants for the first time ever! They actually had like, 4 different ones, and i loved the one that was mostly black with the two purple stripes, but i dunno, i was just feeling i needed colour! As you can see they are in AWFUL condition, it's my first time having calathea so i will try to research their specific names and how to care for them and just hope i can bring them back to health after a soil change into some better soil! Also the red/purple calathea matches my cordyline fruticosa, so that's cute!