hi everyone it's marianne welcome to a very merry plantmas
and for today's video i'm sharing with you my top 10 house plants in 2021
thank you so much for joining me today and i'm sharing with you my top 10 house plants
in my plant collection
so this is for the overall plant collection not just those plants that i acquired in 2021
i've also created a separate video talking about my top 10
pothos plants so i'm not going to be including any
epipremnum, philodendron hederaceum, and scindapsus pictus plants
in this video so if you want to check it out the link
is up here and also down description
and to come up with my top 10 houseplants i tried to pick my top plant from each
genus of plant that is part of my plant collection so let's go ahead and get started
but the very first one is none other than my thai constellation monstera
thai constellation monstera has always been a houseplant favorite of
any houseplant lover but i think it's going to really
have a big year next year especially when costa farms releases their thai constellation monstera
and the one that i have back there is the one that i won from the costa farms giveaway
and it's currently in that knotbox
plant basket that Fillhappy.com sent to me for free in exchange for my honest review
and i really like that knotbox plant basket because it adds to
the festiveness especially during this holiday season
and of course it's sustainably made and the company is a great
sustainable small business that i'm very happy to
support so if you're interested in getting the knotbox planter
which are also shown in my holiday diy video if you haven't
seen that yet check it out here and also down description
and the link to that product is down in the description and you
could use the code MARIANNE25 to get 25%
off your order on amazon for the knotbox plant basket from fillhappy so go
check it out if you are interested and of course i can also not mention my other
thai con that i imported from thailand this
one and if you've been following me for a while you know that this grew
into a pretty large plant since i got it from last year
but i did chop it off to do a plant trade for a monstera
albo and it has finally pushed out a new growth since i chopped it off
and as i mentioned in previous videos
i'll be using this new growth for a giveaway next spring so if you're not subscribed
to me yet go ahead and subscribe and hit the notification bell so you'll be notified
when i announce that giveaway next year
and the next one in my top 10 list is from my ficus plants which
is my ficus ruby elastica you probably seen that in many
of my video backgrounds it's such a beautiful gorgeous plants and i love
all my ficus plants but this one really stands out as
it's grown so tall this year and i also created a
video on how to get your ficus plants to branch and that plant has already
started to branch since i
made that video or the existing branch that it has has already gotten bigger so i'm really
excited for that plant as an honorable mention
i want to mention the ficus audrey which is also the same thing it's on
its way to be just like the ficus ruby elastica
and i think would likely make my top 10 houseplants next year so watch out for
the ficus audrey and next on my top 10 list is a hoya plant
and i don't have a large hoya collection and just mentioned in
previous videos i'm not really a hoya head but honestly any of my hoya plants
could be in my top 10 houseplants because
they are great houseplants and i would honorably mention
my hoya krimson princess and my hoya krimson queen but as
part of my top 10 houseplants i'm choosing the hoya curtisii
which is right here this one i also got as part of my thailand
import last year where hoya curtisii is not yet as readily available
nowadays you can even find this in big box stores
though i never had a good luck of finding it
in a large basket which i hope to find sometime next year but this one is
actually a great plant normally hoyas when you import them
they don't really travel well and a lot of people who import
hoyas don't really have great experience or have a hit or miss
experience with them so with this one i locked out even
though i got it a lot smaller than i expected it grew pretty
well as you can see it's already started to trail and you could
probably use some repotting but i'm not gonna do that now i'm
gonna do it next year so i could lay these trails down on top of
the soil so that it would also root down to the soil
and be a much larger plant down the road and the hoya curtisii is also a
great alternative to do a string of plants
that you have problems with like the spring of pearls and maybe for some
string of parts although i don't really have as much trouble with my string of parts
this is a great alternative to it because
this one is a much harder plant
compared to those type of string of plants so definitely recommend the hoya curtisii
it's more unique than i'd say a regular hoya carnosa the leaves are smaller
it's speckled with silver or white so this is a great
addition to your houseplant collection even if you're not a hoya head yourself
and next one in my top 10 list is a syngonium and of course this one will not come a surprise
the syngonium albo
i don't have a large syngonium
collection myself but definitely of course the syngonium albo it's a standout again another
part of my thailand import from last year
that did really well and you might know in the late fall i did chop it off i've been
propagating it in water since and
this is actually rooted a lot and i'm actually planning to plot this up now so if you have
seen my winter vacation plant care video which might have already come out
before this one i would link it up here and in
the description if possible then you would see
me repotting this in a self-watering planter from emerging green so yeah so
this is one of those plants that grew really well for me
usually when you get albo variegated plants they tend to be more
finicky than other more common versions of the plant of this
in the same genus but this one is not it grows pretty easily and
as well as a regular syngonium plant so
i know this one is also being found in big box stores already not as frequent
or as common but you can find this in big box stores so if
you're lucky to find one go get it i think even in nurseries or
online they don't pack as high price as they used to so this is also a
great alternative for a monstera albo or any albo
variegated plant that has a higher price tag this one definitely is a great
dude at a much more accessible and affordable
price and also it's a lot easier care plan my next one is a peperomia
and this is my peperomia string of turtles so
peperomia is one of those plant genus that i'm not really attracted to
or don't have a lot of i probably had a couple of
other peperomias in the past and i think right now the only pepperoni
i have is a small pepperoni hulk but this one the
string of turtles is something that
has been part of my wish list for a long time and i finally got it i think i got this last year
i don't think i got it this year i got it definitely last year
and this one is also a very easy care plan compared to other string of
plants i water this frankly when i remember to
but i don't have any issues with it drying out or getting over watered or
anything like that i did convert it into a shallower pot because this has a very shallow
root system when i first got it it was in
a six inch planter and if you bought any plants from a big box stores they
usually come into those big deep six inch pots
which i didn't really need because literally the plant
was just sitting on top so i just had to like take it off and plant it into
this much more shallow pot and so far it's doing well
and as you can see it's trailing i wanted to do a care video for this one
this year but i just didn't have time to
include it into my content schedule but maybe next year if any of you are interested in a
string of turtle care video let me know down in the comments
and i'll make sure to make one next year
so number six and my top 10 houseplants is one that i grew from seed
a couple years back which is my mango plant
and i really am very proud of this plant because as mentioned i did grow this from seed
and it's already huge for a plant that is
only about two to three years old
and of course i don't think this is going to bear fruit anytime soon it's probably gonna
take seven years if it does and usually for plants like a mango plant
the way to get it to bear good fruit is to graft it so until i
find a good mango plant to graft it i don't think this would be varying clients anytime soon
but as a ornamental floor plant is
actually really amazing i usually have it outside during the growing season because
this sprite requires full sun normally
and i only bring it back in during the winter season like right now and it's
downstairs right next to a south and west facing
windows so you can get optimal light it does act up a little
bit during the winter because like i said it is a tropical tree it
needs a lot of that tropical conditions
to stay alive but it can survive the winter in my conditions thankfully even though it
would suffer a little bit of cold damage
because it is very sensitive to cold and low humidity levels so that's the only
thing about that mango plant but i love it
and so far it has pretty much acclimated to my situation already so hopefully i
will not have a difficult time with it
this winter season i didn't really have one last year but like i said it did suffer some leaf
damage but as you can see right now it came back in full
force it grew a lot of new branches not just from the top after i
pruned it from earlier this year but also at the bottom and
next growing season it's probably time to also repot it because i'm
pretty sure it's a bit root bound already for the last four plants
that i'm going to include in this top 10 list this is just choosing
from the rest of my houseplant collection
because i don't really have a lot of choices within the same genus for these
plants and starting with this one the discihidia
iontha variegata so this plant i don't really talk about in my channel
but i really like this one i received this
from a subscriber for like maybe a three to four leaf cutting and it has grown into
this and i really like this one especially again if you're into that
string of plants or trailing house plants with small leaves like
this that are a bit succulent like and i highly recommend this because this one
is honestly such a low maintenance plant
especially for a variegated plant and this one has
been in the same pot ever since i've gotten it which is like about a two
inch pot it doesn't grow roots very vigorously so it doesn't require a lot of repotting
and i initially wanted to stake it up but
it just trailed too long for me to continue
staking it so i'm just letting it trail right now if you're not into or not very familiar
with this dischidia i would start with this one that is dischidia
variegata i keep forgetting its exact name but it's a variegated
dischidia when it comes to like underrated and plants that are not very much talked about
i highly recommend this dischidia
variegated plant and the next one in my top 10 list and i know i said i'm
not going to mention any scindapsus pictus plants
for this top 10 list because i already did a top 10 pothos plant video
but i forgot to include this in that video so i'm including it
in here which is the scindapsus silver hero
and as mentioned in my best or worst purchases plant video that this one was
part of my failed etsy import order from indonesia
but this one survived with a lot of luck and a lot of determination from
just pretty much dying single nodes
so i'm really happy that this one actually survived the rehab and propagation and it
has become into this and i'm trying to turn this into a shingling plant
and it has produced four new leaves so these are all new
leaves under my hair and it hasn't grown new leaves since and i haven't really seen it
attempt to shingle so hopefully it will
actually shingle next year and as mentioned in those previous
videos i don't mind it as a snow grower since i don't want it to
grow its bamboo plank too quickly but this is definitely
one of my top 10 house plants in 2021 just because of the effort that
i put into basically reviving this plant from the dead so
this definitely deserves a spot in my top 10 lists for number eight
in my top 10 list is also a plant that i really
talk about and i don't have any other plan in this genus or category of the
prayer plants as you know a lot of people are very
wary of calatheas because they don't really do well as house plants no
matter how beautiful they are
but i took a chance on one type of prayer plant which is supposedly a lot more easy care than
a calathea which is a stromanthe triostar and i know for some
this still doesn't work out as a great alternative for a calathea
plant but for me so far it is working out it doesn't really require a lot for me
it does get brown tips every now and then but
compared to my experience with the white calathea fusion that i eventually killed
because it suffered a lot of spider mites
and no matter what i did even i put it right next to humidifier
it was still getting dry tips this one doesn't do that this one just
prefers to be watered on time
and not have it dry out too much but even then sometimes i still have the splat dry out and it
still does okay and the worst it has done because i wasn't watering
on time is to provide me some brown tips sometimes
it does produce leaves like this that are
super green and i often cut them out because i want to encourage the paint
variegation in this plant because what i love most
about this fermented three star and what made me take a chance in this
plant is the pink variegation and the white variegation it has more than the green
that it has so i highly recommend this if
you want to try a prayer plant but you don't want to get a calathea or you've
been burned by a calathea plant before so the
stromanthe triostar
and the last plant in my top 10 list is a plant that is probably already
cheugy as the gen z kids would say
or no longer as popular as it used to be especially when it first came out
and everyone wanted to have their hands on this
and the tissue culture version of this plant is the one that is readily available
but now like the regular version of it is as
accessible as the tissue culture one and it's none other than my rhaphpidophra tetrasperma
so the reason that i am including this in my top 10 list even though honestly this is probably
don't break my favorite plants
in my entire plant collection but the reason that i'm including this
is how resilient this plant is so if you have been following
me for a while you know that this suffered root rot last year it bounced back from that root rot
grew really really long and
really really tall because i had it staked up
and then it fell off his plant's dead and lost all that growth pretty much got cut
from the base but it bounced back
and came back stronger like a 90s trend as taylor swift would say and it produced not
only one but three new growth points
and it's now this plant and this plant is often referred to as the mini monstera
because it does have that fenestrated leaf
like a monstera deliciosa but it is a much smaller form plant so if you don't
have a space for a monstera deliciosa
the rhaphidophra tetrasperma is something that i highly recommend to anyone
but it does vine and it does need of support eventually
if you want to have this plant so like this one i eventually probably
should give it a support and also this one or a
variegated version of this has also been popping up on instagram and of
course it has a huge price tag do i think a raphi variegated is worth it
i don't know i don't it doesn't have the same appeal to
me as a monstera albo i still think of the monstera albo
is the top tier plant to have when it comes to plants with albo
variegation but if you want one i would suggest holding off
because it might be one of those plants like the regular
version that would become so easily available or more accessible
in a couple years time because for this plant as far
as plant trends go this one has a quick rise and fall like people
say the pilea peperomoides fell out of grace among
plant people very quickly when it used to be so popular but the pilea
peperomiodes had a good few years on it before people
kind of fell out of love with it this one i think this was only popular like
really really popular for a few months maybe even
up to a year and that's it so but i do think it's a very resilient
plant and a great plant to have in your plant collection and like
i said it has been through ups and downs and it always just comes back stronger
so highly recommend
if you're looking for a very resilient houseplant
but those are my top 10 plants for 2021 if there's a plant that you think
should be included in this list
or if there's a plant that you think that will be very popular in 2022
also let me know down in the comments
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and have a plantiful holiday season bye
you