New Houseplants

A couple of weeks ago I bought some new houseplants.  I was at a garden center that had one of those small shopping carts that are so much fun to wheel around - they turn on a dime and you can do really tight corners.  They're so much fun that one tends to peruse and linger more than one perhaps ought to.  

I eventually had the cart filled to the brim with just the right combination of color and greenery.  After all that effort at coordinating, when I got home, I split them up.

Two of the plants already died - a beautiful orange Crossandra which they assured me would bloom for at least six weeks (in somebody else's home, I guess) and a teeny, tiny Chrysanthemum.  (I might have forgotten to water the mum.)

These are the ones that made it, so far...

Pilea on the left; begonia on the right.

A pretty, vintage tin sits to the right of the begonia.

Kalanchoe, miniature.  I bought two of these, but only this one looks good now.

 

Croton, temporarily sitting atop my Amy Butler Gumdrop Pillow.

And a miniature Phalaenopsis Orchid.