Name: $500 RARE PLANT HAUL!!! HUGE RARE HOUSEPLANT HAUL | 21 RARE HOUSEPLANTS 2021
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Hey everyone it's me Alex and welcome to my rare plant haul. It occurred to me that a fair few people watching this video probably have never watched one of my videos before because this is the first time I've ever posted a video specifically about indoor houseplants and I'm sure that there's an entire community out there on YouTube that wants this sort of content but people that are usually subscribed to me are interested in fashion or maybe they're interested in travel to Japan so if you are someone that's clicked on this video because plants are your thing, welcome to the Pretty Pastel Please side of YouTube. I hope that you stay, please subscribe if you enjoyed today's video, please give me a thumbs up too if you like the plant content because

I have a lot of plants and a lot of content I could make but I'm just sort of throwing this video out there as a little bit of a teaser just to test the waters, dip my feet in, see how people enjoy the plant content. So essentially what happened today to trigger the filming of this video um you know how sometimes you'll go out to buy one thing and then you'll come back with 20 things, 21 things to be precise? Uh yep, anyone that's into plants probably knows exactly what I mean.

I was at Flower Power Garden Center the other day and I put a picture up on Instagram and one of my followers said to me, hey if you like Flower Power in Durrell you definitely have to check out

Mother Earth Nursery in Kenthurst which is just down the road. So I went on their Instagram page and the first thing that I saw on their page was a picture of this adorable little succulent or

I think it's a succulent, at first I thought it was a ZZ plant with like a pink variegation or something and then I noticed how the stem was a zigzag and I was like what is this plant? I need it. I've never seen this before, I didn't know it existed, it is so cute, I want it. And I headed out to the nursery to buy that plant and when I got there, let me just say out of all the places

I've been to that sell house plants I've never seen such a large collection of rare plants before.

So part of the reason that I titled this video as the $500 rare plant haul is because there are definitely some actual rare plants in here that everyone will know that they're rare but then there's also some plants that they're rare to me because I've never seen them before. They may be available in your country quite easily but Australia has really strict um biosecurity laws and it's it's quite difficult to import seeds and plants into our country so don't worry I totally understand if you leave a comment and you say Alex that that isn't rare, it's rare to me.

So I just have a quick disclaimer before I get into the plant haul because I understand that it probably seems absolutely crazy to see someone spend $500 on plants and that wasn't originally my intention but when I got to the nursery we were the only people there. It was beautiful, it was a small quaint little place, there were two people working, they were so friendly to me, they were just the nicest people and I was asking them about their business and they were telling me how they've been impacted over the past year, how sales have gone up but also it's been really difficult for them to acquire plants because so many people now want to buy plants that the large distributors like Bunnings for example, those large places are buying up all of the stock of the plants and it's been really hard for the little guys with the little nurseries to actually get stock of certain things. So when I heard that and I was talking to the people and I thought they are so nice and I want to show my support for this business and because I'm a YouTuber I feel like everyone knows this, as a YouTuber I make ad revenue so when you watch my video and an ad plays if you watch the ad I make a small amount of money from each view of the ads. So in posting this video

I can actually make back money so I don't really feel guilty so much when I spend a bit more money than I need to. So I said to myself look I want to support this beautiful place, these beautiful people and I said to them guys can you please leave me to your rarest plants I'd like to buy all of your rarest plants and they were like okay okay they're probably thinking she's gonna get like one or two and uh he took me around the nursery and he was showing me you know he was picking individual plants up and saying now this one is from Mexico and this one's from Burma and this one's from the Galapagos Islands you know and he's telling me he knew everything his name is Mark. Hello Mark if you happen to stumble across this video thank you so much for your time today it was very informative Mark knew everything there is to know about every single plant and there were some plants that were way more rare than some of the ones that I purchased here but

I didn't purchase them because they weren't my style. When I buy plants I try to get plants that I think are cute or pretty or interesting and quirky some of them were so rare and they were so strange like there was this one I've never seen anything like that he had that plant and I was thinking of buying it but also I didn't really like the leaves that much and I was like

I'd rather spend my money on something really pretty so anyway that's just a brief disclaimer as to why I splurged so much money because I wanted to show my support to this small business

I wanted to give them some money I know I can make some money back just by uploading this video so that's just a little bit of a disclaimer before I get into these plants because I know for some of you from my regular audience for those of you that watch me for you know my other content and you're like oh yeah I'll just watch this video about plants I don't like plants I know I know you're gonna look at me pick up that jewel orchid and you're gonna go you spent 60 dollars on that what I know you're gonna freak out so I just wanted to put the disclaimer out there and like

I hope that makes sense I'm very sorry about rambling I know you're here for plants so let me show you the plants I have arranged them in order from least rare to rarest and also there's a couple that just they're not rare plants at all I've just tacked them on because I just really wanted to show you I'm also going to show you the price and I know some of you are probably going to be appalled by some of these prices but like I said I could justify it because I wanted to support the small business I've never seen some of these plants before and I don't know when I'm ever going to see them again and I had a really really bad experience one time buying a Hoya I bought it online it was a lot cheaper to buy it off the Facebook marketplace but when it arrived in the mail it was dead so I was like yes I could buy them online for cheaper potentially but they may not survive the trip so with that plant number one is this Scyndapsus Pictus Argyreus also known as a Saturn Pothos now this was 35 dollars for this little basket here and the reason that I purchased this I love the Saturn Pothos but the ones that I have I've got a few of them in my house they have huge leaves and they don't grow so densely together and they don't have this really nice silvery border around the outside now I know what these look like when you grow them up a post they look so beautiful and I just loved the idea of having the ones I already own with the really large leaves and then this one with its little little tiny leaves that are more densely packed together I have never seen one available in any of the stores that I've ever been to so I had to get this one straight away the next one is this Scyndapsus Pictus Exotica this was 40 dollars now the leaves the size and shape of these leaves are the same as the other Saturn Pothos plants that I own already except this one is much more silvery so the ones I have the leaves are very very dark green and there's little teeny tiny splashes of silver in the leaves this one the whole leaf is super silvery and I've again I've wanted one of these for the longest time too so I couldn't help myself when I saw this this was the only one that they had so despite being 40 dollars I was like oh that's worth it to me because the amount of joy that this plant brings me and also I really recommend these to anyone that's not a plant expert if you're a beginner these are very easy to look after at least in my experience when I first came across these not this silvery version but my darker ones I bought four of them at once because I thought what I'm going to do I'll set them up in different rooms around my house and I'll see how they react to the light and I'll see which ones grow the best in my experience the more sunlight you give them the lighter green the leaves are when you don't give them very much sunlight I found that the leaves were darker no matter what the lighting situation is that I've put all of them in they've all just thrived they don't need a huge amount of water I don't really worry that much about the soil medium no matter how big they get so far I haven't had to repot them so this is I think this is a very easy beginners plant and I actually learned something really interesting at the nursery today so when we were at the checkout and we were scanning all of the plants he gave me a bit of advice about all of them and he said now make sure that you give this one something good to climb up because if you don't give it something to climb up when they hang downwards their leaves grow smaller but when they are forced to climb their leaves get bigger and I was like sorry why did that never occur to me before I had this adorable little monstera as at Dasoni when I first got it its leaves each leaf was like this big and it's got a it's got a very very very long climbing arm but as you progress down the arm the leaves go from big and then go slightly smaller slightly smaller and the most recent leaves they grow and they never get any bigger than that and I've been thinking to myself what does this plant want I've given it fertilizer I've given it plenty of light it's had good water what do you want little plant and then he said to me today he's like if you let plants climb their leaves get bigger if you let them drop their leaves get smaller there you go there's a tip for you guys so as beautiful as it looks to have something sitting up and have it dropping downwards if you want the leaves to get big and full you need to let it climb let that baby climb so I'm very very excited to actually do this right this time with this plant because all my others I've been letting them grow downwards I had this one here on this little plant stand making its way down climbing its way all the way down and it shot down it went so quickly it went literally from this long to this long in one month I would say so now I've switched the direction of the leaves of my other one and he's growing upwards now I don't know whether that means that the leaves that are currently small

I don't know if they'll get any bigger now I don't know if they've reached their maximum growing potential maybe they'll be small there and then now it'll start growing really big ones at the end I'm not sure how it's going to work but anyway that's just a little bit of information for any of you guys if you want the nice big leaves grow it upwards all right next up we have this really cute little succulent I got this from flower power but I've just chucked it in the video because I wanted to show you because what I ideally want to find is a moon I think they're called moonstone succulents they're like this I've never seen one in the wild I've never seen one in a store I don't know where to buy one every listing I've seen online was so expensive and I spotted this at flower power and I thought well it's not quite the same but its leaves are nice and fat and plump I also really liked it because it already came with this pot with the little eggs on it it's got little pebbles on the top here and uh it was 40 dollars but this pot is absolutely beautiful it's got a drainage hole in the bottom too I liked the presentation and I love that with these succulents they're quite low maintenance and it just looks really pretty and it's really full on the top it's going out in all different directions it's just it's a very cute looking plant so I got this one to sit in a more hardy location in the house all right next this was 13 dollars this is called a Persian shield this has the most beautiful rich purple leaves it's stunning I'd never seen one of these before the moment that I laid eyes on it I was I fell in love with the leaves look how the light shines through it and as I tilt it you can actually see it goes from a greenish yellow to a dark purple depending on where the light hits it I was fascinated and I was really surprised it was only $13 because when I saw it I thought rare rare that's gonna be 50 bucks $13 very reasonably priced I don't know how big this is going to get I don't really know much about its watering schedule or you know how much light or anything that it needs um I downloaded an app I had to pay for it it's called picture this I think it was a couple of dollars in the app store I can't remember no no it wasn't no it was expensive actually I think it's like 12 bucks a month actually I'm gonna have to check on that you guys ever end up with an apple subscription that you forget about and then you remember a couple of years later and realize you've been paying hundreds of dollars for this app that you opened once and thought I'll cancel the subscription and then you didn't I haven't canceled my picture this subscription yet because I've actually found it really really helpful you can just hold any plant up and take a picture and the app tells you what it is tells you where you should position it how much water it needs what sort of disease is it susceptible like it tells you everything so um I'm gonna do a little bit of research on this one I don't know much about it but even if it stayed the way it is even if it stayed this big forever I would be very happy because it's so cute all right next adorable little $10 jellybean succulent I just really liked how sun-stressed he was look how pink his leaves

I don't know very much about sun-stressing succulents I've experimented with a couple and I've never been able to produce the pinkish kind of tones and I follow a few people on instagram that have successfully made pastel succulents just by stressing them out but my succulents live a very stress-free life even when I try to stress them out nothing seems to bother them so if you have some tips on how to stress the succulents so that they go pink this one was just sitting out in the nursery out in the sunlight in direct sunlight so I guess that's just give it all day sunlight and don't give it very much water if you know please let me know because I need to know now this this is called a zebra plant what made me notice it it was the only one sitting among a bunch of begonias and I just I saw these striking stripy leaves and I was like whoa I love it just it looks like a skeleton it looks like a fish skeleton it's so cool this was $20 and the picture here actually shows that they get this almost pineapple looking flower on them I'm going to need to do a bit of research to see what time of the year that I'll get the flower how much I should be fertilizing it all that sort of thing but I really like the size that it is right now

I know with some plants if you keep them in a smaller pot they will just stay the size that they are and if you want them to get bigger you give them a size up and they will fill out the pot and get bigger I don't know if this is a plant like that this probably looks really cool if it gets super super big but that's you know sometimes I'm like I like them when they're little baby plants I just want them to stay little babies forever like puppies you just want them to be little babies forever but as a parent you're gonna let them go you're gonna let them grow up and they grow so fast unless they're a hoyakeri in which case they will live in your basement rent-free until they're 40 plant person joke to be fair I'm not really a plant person I have a lot of plants but I'm not very knowledgeable I would actually give the honor of a plant person to someone like Mark who worked at the nursery who you could point to anything and he knew every single thing there is to know about every single plant in that place I would call that a plant person I'm a plant enthusiast all right the very last thing that is not rare in any way at all but I had to buy it this is a string of pearls I have three string of pearl plants that haven't grown a centimeter in six months if the string of pearl plant really does grow at that rate this one must be as old as wolverine because look how long it is the crazy thing is this was 26 and all the other string of heart have I been saying string of hearts it's a string of pearls you think I would remember that it's a string of pearls considering they look like pearls although when my dad saw it he was like are they peas I said yes dad this is a very rare pea on a stick plant I paid 26 for the ones that I have and they have no length to them at all they're just like that long this one was also 26 and look how much growth look at this this is ridiculous this is longer than my hair you know what is so cool this has to be one of the most beautiful planters I've ever seen I got this at the mother earth nursery this was $85 which is probably a bit too much but it's stunning she's got these beautiful roses on a crown around her head and you put the plant in there it's got a drainage hole too and my thought process was if it fits please fit oh please I don't want to do all right well I may have to de-pot this string of pearls ideally I want her to have what looks like hair trailing down so how pretty would that be if this was a really really full string of pearls that would just be like the most unbelievably stunning thing imaginable but it's not a very full string of pearls there's really only two strings of peas so I don't know if I should take some of the other string of pearls that I have and try to pop them all up together to give this some more strands to give her a little bit of volume in her hair so she looks like a Schwarzkopf ad or maybe I should just pick a different plant what sort of plant would you put in that head what sort of hair should she grow maybe a snake plant so she could be like Medusa all right now we're getting into oh wait hang on this is this is my plant I've had this for a long time a very long time and it's hardly grown I've got this little turtle planter that Tiasha and Millie gave me and I put a string of turtles in it oh kind of oh kind of oh not quite as luscious but as the string of turtles gets bigger okay maybe maybe I'll use the string of turtles oh I don't know tell me do you have any plant recommendations for what I should give her growing out of her head please let me know but now now for the what I would consider to be like legitimately rare plants I love peperomias originally I was like ah yes a peperomia and I thought there was just one plant called a peperomia and then I slowly started to realize when I walked into a Bunnings one day and I was like that says it's a peperomia but my peperomia doesn't have red leaves turns out there's many many many variations of peperomias and I've been buying them almost every time that

I see them and I bought this one today this is called a peperomia pink lady I've never seen one of these before but this has pink stems and little bits of pink splashes all through the leaves it is so cute they also had a peperomia it was called like a gold coin or something I can't remember it was like a gold colored peperomia and I think I may go back for it but also it was nowhere near as pretty as this one and it was more expensive and he was telling me it's really rare it's a rare peperomia and part of me was like oh I should get it because it's rare but also I was like no don't don't waste money unnecessarily like if the plant doesn't spark a huge amount of joy when I look at it don't just buy it purely because it's rare I was just trying to buy things that I was like if it's rare and I love looking at it and obviously I had to get this I know some people wonder what the difference is between a peperomia and a pilia so peperomias they grow out individual little stems from the bottom see how there's many many many little stems growing out from the base but a pilia will grow like a single stem and then from that central trunk then it grows out its other leaves they do have quite similar looking leaves but uh that's something that I learned that some people may find useful all right next I hope this blows some people's minds so when I said to him can you show me your rarest plants he said and he walked me straight to this one and when I first looked at it I was like oh yes it might be rare but it's kind of ugly but then he picked it up and he put it in the light this is a begonia cathedral windows now I don't have any other begonias because begonias kind of creep me out a little bit they look kind of spiky and hairy and they look like something from another planet and uh even though some of them have really nice pink colorings I just I'm not the biggest fan of the begonias but he held this up in the sun it's called cathedral windows because the leaves are like cathedral windows look at the way the sun is shining through them isn't that unbearably incredible when he walked me over to it and he was like very rare I was like that's a no from me but then he went like that and I saw the cathedral windows and I heard the angels singing and I knew I had to buy it so it was only twenty dollars too I'm probably going to put this in a hanging pot way high up on the window so it's like hanging just at the very top of the window so the light is always shining through it and uh also that way

I don't actually have to ever look at the top of the leaves all right next yes I did actually buy what I went there to buy and I came away with two of them I don't know why I bought two I could have stopped at one but I was like what if one dies so this is called a euphorbia zigzag aka devil's backbone the stem of it is literally a zigzag these leaves have beautiful pink edges and uh the lady at the nursery was telling me that when they get bigger they will actually grow multiple stalks often they don't always stay as just a single stem but she said you can always just give it a snip and repot it if you just want it to have that singular kind of devil's backbone appearance she told me so much about this plant I think she was talking about this plant for 10 minutes and

I don't remember everything that she said because I heard so much about so many plants today that I wasn't able to retain all the information I'm glad that I did actually remember to buy this plant I wouldn't have been half surprised with myself if I'd gone all the way there to get that and then got so distracted by these that I forgot to buy that I've done that many times anyway next we have a philodendron mekans? Mekans? Mekans. I love philodendrons they're very easy to care for low maintenance plant I find that they grow in literally any condition and this one this is a rare one they are really soft micro little teeny tiny furs on these leaves that makes it feel like velvet it's like a very matte kind of texture it's so satisfying to touch from a distance you wouldn't know that it feels like that but it's it is ASMR to just stand and caress this plant the new leaves always start off as this kind of reddish burgundy kind of color and then they do eventually turn darker when my first philodendron was growing its new leaves and I noticed that some of them were a red color I was like oh god what have I done I can't keep anything alive but uh alas that's just what they do they start off red and they turn green kind of like me this one was $40 and uh I have never ever seen one of these and actually I put a picture up on instagram and people were commenting and they were like is that a philodendron mekans? So obviously other people must acknowledge that this one is rare some of these others you guys are probably like that's that pink pepperoni is not rare but let's all acknowledge this is rare like a steak for dinner all right next up I think this is rare I've never seen this before this is called a piper crocartan this was $30 look at these leaves these leaves have pink veins running through them just like me he had several of these and I originally put one in my basket that was half this height it was a little bit fuller at the bottom but it was half this height then as I was walking out after I paid I noticed this and I said to him because it was exactly the same price and I said oh can I swap them and he's like yeah no problem this is I just there's something about the symmetry of the way that this is growing you know what it is it's tessellating it's leaf here leaf there leaf here leaf there leaf here when life imitates art all right next something I've been trying to get my hands on for six months this is an oxalis triangularis this is also known as a false shamrock this was $50 I can hear people screaming Alex you paid $50 for a weed but it is a weed that closes at night and opens in the daylight actually funnily enough when I brought this upstairs from downstairs there was no sunlight in my downstairs room and all of the leaves were folded up like this and as I've been sitting here filming this video silly old me if I'd had it sitting in the background while I've been filming all this time you would have literally watched the leaves as they opened back up again I feel like I'm going to ruin his sleep schedule because it's 6 p.m right now and it got dark downstairs and I've come into this room here because this is the only room in the whole house that still has a little bit of sunlight shining through the window and uh he fell asleep downstairs and then I woke him up abruptly and brought him back up into the sunlight and he was like I was just nodding off but uh later tonight I'll snap a picture of it so you can see when it closes up but I've been trying so hard to find this I actually have a google alert set you know on google if you search something and then you can actually set an alert for it so whenever something appears on google that has those words you'll get an email and I have alerts set up waiting for people to sell these and I got an alert recently that a private seller online had one available or I think they had a few available and I opened the email at one day after I received it and I was like yay and I went to buy it sold out they sell so quickly these go dormant uh I believe these go dormant in winter these actually have I don't know what they're called they're little teeny tiny what's the word for them oh I can't remember what they're called they're these little tiny balls basically like they grow out of these little nodule kind of things and uh if if the leaves die off that's okay you can just hang on to those little balls that are in the soil and then it'll grow again I expected to pay this sort of money for it and uh this was the only one they had in the place in the whole nursery the only one and also it was in a really weird spot it had some other really big plants in front of it

I feel like I was I was walking through that nursery with like a magnifying glass looking at everything and I think a lot of people as they're walking they just kind of glance across things and

I don't think that they would have noticed it where it was that's probably why it was the only one left I'm so excited another one that people are going to scream this was the only one they had in the store I have a little thing for jewel orchids I think they're beautiful I have one other that I've had for many many months it hadn't grown a millimeter and my friend said to me oh it's because you need to keep it in like a very very humid environment so I put it in this little glass greenhouse from Ikea with a humidifier inside the little greenhouse it's just this teeny tiny little greenhouse it was actually the wishing well at our wedding I got it on gumtree for five dollars and uh sorry I'm going off on a tangent but as soon as I put it in there with the humidifier it grew a new leaf in a week so when I saw this this is a jewel orchid ludisia that this was $50 but the way I will justify it to my husband is uh when they grow and I confirmed this with

Matt at the nursery I said how big can they possibly get and he said that he's seen them as big as like this not the leaves the leaves stay small but it should just keep growing bits off it and it can get bigger and bigger and uh my thought process is that if one day if I don't kill all of these plants as soon as winter comes if they start getting really really big I could possibly start taking cuttings and I could start a little business or something a little side gig so the way that I'll justify it to my husband is yes it's $50 now but in 25 years when it's this big I could take a cutting off it and sell that for $50 there's really not very much to say about this it's small um it's cute what I like most about it is this once again like that philodendron this has velvet leaves if you closed your eyes and you reached out and someone said touch this what do you think it is you'd probably say it's a piece of fabric like it's a piece of suede or velvet it's just got the most beautiful texture plants like this do make me nervous though because I'm like it's so little and if I do anything wrong and it dies that's just wee it's just gone just like that at least with a bigger plant that's got many many stems and stuff if one or two leaves dies it's like yeah okay that's fine there's 30 others with this it's like ah two leaves died there is no plant anymore next I I think this is rare but it might not be but this is a syngonium wedlandi black velvet again velvety leaves look at the beautiful color I love the streak down the center there's this light color I love when the sun shines through it kind of glows it actually looks like jade or something I love velvet plants I actually placed an order for a alacasia black velvet which he's going to order in for me and I actually learned from the guy at the nursery today that plants that have the velvet on them when they feel like velvet it's actually because they've got these little tiny microscopic hairs that they put out because they're trying to absorb moisture so the little teeny tiny hairs actually draw moisture in from the air and they store the water in their leaves so you shouldn't mist plants that have the velvet kind of feel to them if you miss them you can oversaturate because those little hairs will basically drown it's almost like us as humans we've got hair all over us although we don't absorb water with our hair do we no surely not look I dropped science they store the water in their leaves so they are a little bit hardier they can go a little bit longer without being watered because there is water stored in the leaves so at least that's what I was told so I'm very interested to put that to the test and see just how much time there is in between waterings but uh this I don't know how big it's going to get but if it's anything like my other syngoniums it'll get really really big so really excited about this one now next this kind of confused me this is a begonia so I went from owning no begonias because I thought they were ugly to owning two now this is called a begonia maculata whitey whitey a spotted begonia this was fifty dollars and originally I walked up to it and I was like that's a cool looking begonia and I picked it up and I saw it's 50 bucks and

Caitlin Caitlin was with me and Caitlin was like I just got a begonia the other day but I only paid 10 for mine and I said I wonder why this one's so much more expensive and Caitlin said it's probably because this is like a small business and the one that I got was from Woolworths and that's like a national you know national chain uh but I was like no there's no way because other things here were reasonably priced I was like there's got to be something about this begonia that makes it special and sure enough when I took it up to the man at the nursery and I said why is this begonia more expensive than other begonias that we've seen he said ah let me show you and he pulled up another begonia which looked almost identical like to the untrained eye you probably wouldn't really know the difference but as he pointed out the differences I realized that what makes me not like begonias is they have these really weird kind of like crinkly edges and I know some people love it no no shade if you if you like begonias not my style because just the they look very harsh like jagged on the edges and I really like things that kind of look soft that's why I like the you know chubby little jelly bean succulents and things like that I really like things that have soft curves to them so the begonias I'm like oh it's a little bit too harsh to look at but he said the difference is the edges of this begonia the maculata whitey they don't have the crinkly edges and he also said they go very very silvery the spots that are on this are quite literally silver

I don't know if it'll be able to pick it up in the camera but this looks like um you know when you get like a high vis vest it looks like high vis material like when you turn it it reflects it's actually completely reflective it's not like the other begonias that just have like a white spot this is a reflective silver spot and he said that it comes out the older that the plant gets the more silvery that these spots will look and it'll actually look like it's got like silver paint spots on it and I was like that's so cool I can get a begonia without the ugly crinkly edges and it looks like a unicorn sneezed on it sold next up is a really weird succulent that I've never seen before this is called a crassula buddha's temple this was $25 and at first I was like oh look at that poor guy he looks really sad he's fallen over but no no they just grow kind of like a big floppy alien really unusual not really cute but also so quirky to look at and I'm just very excited to see what this turns into I hope that it turns into some enormous massive thing but even if it stays exactly like it is for the rest of its little old life it's just so cool how geometric that some succulents can be succulents are supposed to be easy to look after but I have killed actually of all the plants that I've killed I think I've killed four plants since I started buying plants three of them were succulents and I very rarely water the succulents but then I'm like oh yes the soil's bone dry I'll give it a water and I come back a couple of days later and it's dead because

I gave it too much water so I hope that this one doesn't meet the same fate next up I've been looking for one of these for so long this was the last one in the nursery my friend that has one of these herself she bought it on ebay and she paid fifty dollars for it and uh this was 45 this is a silver dollar vine they call it the actual name is called a zero zero six zero six then guy zero it's called a silver dollar vine because the little tiny leaves are perfectly round and they look like dollar coins and I believe that it gets the silver in its name because it does eventually turn like a silvery kind of color at the moment it's quite green but the one that my friend has that it's a lot older than this one its leaves are almost like a silver kind of green and you know what I was saying I love plants with soft edges and like a round leaf and stuff this like look I've got circular leaves here with the dollar vine I've got peas on a stick the peperomia leaves are almost round it just makes me so happy so aesthetically pleasing so

I don't know how quickly or slow that this one grows I'll do a little bit more research into it but I just I couldn't believe that he had one of these I've been googling I've been looking every couple of weeks I do my little I do my rounds on google and I type plant names in and I see if anything's available online I've never found one of these so very very happy and last but not least it's probably not actually a rare plant no let's be honest this is not a rare plant

I included it with the rare plants because to some people it's very hard to find this is a variegated string of hearts now he had a fair few of these and I picked this one specifically because if I can untangle her oh no I spend way too much time untangling the string of hearts that I have

I know one day if I ever have a daughter I'll spend hours brushing her hair because there's just something so pleasing about untangling things so I picked this one specifically because it's got a lovely very very long string here and then we've also got four other strands hanging down and this actually just fell off it I don't know what where this fell off but it's not the end of the world if things fall off your string of hearts they're actually very very easy to propagate

I've seen some people have success with water propagating but also if you take something like this you can remove a couple of the leaves so that you've got just the stem and you need the node so the node is just the little chunky part where the leaves come out of so you can just bury the node in a little bit of soil get like a takeaway container just lay this across the dirt and make sure that it's sort of nestled into the dirt a little bit give it a spray every couple of days and keep the lid on the takeaway container and within a couple of weeks it'll give you little tiny roots you can then take it out of the container pop it in one of these and it'll take off you can just put one of these straight into a pot with a lot of soil which should give you better results in terms of growth because there's more soil in the pot for the roots to kind of sink down into when you do it in a little shallow container the roots can only get so long which will keep it kind of short either way that you do it the main thing is that you actually get the little strand to grow roots you you need to encourage the root growth because once it's got roots it'll actually start to grow properly so it's easier to get the roots to grow if you keep it in like a sort of humid environment like a takeaway container but it will take you longer in the long run because when you remove it from the takeaway container and then you replant it it then has to re-establish its roots and then go from there so look either way that you do it don't worry if bits fall off your string of hearts i'm actually going to give this to tiata she said to me the other day she saw my other string of hearts and she was like oh you know when it gets a bit longer i'd really like a cutting now i can give her a variegated version now another reason that i bought this is because of the beautiful planter that i got because her flowers on her crown are like gray and pink and i thought that it would look beautiful with the variegated string of hearts as her hair and it definitely would but the pot that this is in right now is way too big for this the opening's not big enough so i would either have to pull this out of this little pot and replant it directly in here which makes me really nervous i never like repotting things if it's unnecessary because it's just i don't want to stress the little babies but also it could be worth it for the aesthetic tell me what i should do make my life decisions for me please all righty so that's it guys that's everything that is my plant haul if you like the content about the plants please let me know down below i'm more than happy to talk about them i would love to hear anyone's advice about any of these plants because i don't know a huge amount about individual plants and how to care for them i just learn as i go that app that i talked about picture this is very useful once you read up on your plant and you understand the needs of each individual plant you can remember it pretty easily that's what i found i was really scared to get into plants because i in the past i've always killed my plants and it was because okay if you've got time stick around um when dan and i moved into our first apartment i he was like okay i'm gonna dress it up with house plants and i went off i bought i think i spent two hundred dollars on house plants put them all around the house and i was like yep i'm gonna become a plant person i'll get into a routine i'll water them every week and what i ended up doing was i would just get a big watering can and it was either once or twice a week i would just go up to all of the plants and i would just water all of them the same and within two months almost all of the plants were dead i think maybe two of them survived a year none of them are left now that was because a lot of people think okay they're plants give them water and you just go up to them and you just water them and uh no they all need different watering cycles this one you water like once a month this one you might water once a four at night some of them the easiest way to do it is to get a moisture meter where you just stick it in the soil and it tells you dry all the way through to wet and it goes from zero to ten some plants like to always hover around like four in moisture content of the soil some like succulents thrive when it hovers at one some of them do really well when they're super moist so like a venus fly trap for example the soil always has to be 10 on the moisture scale if it drops down and it dries out the plant dies and uh you what you do you just learn for all of them what they need and then i i try to kind of arrange them around my house so that they're in categories so it's like these ones i know that i can water those once a week those ones over there i can only water once a month also they all need different light requirements you know this one needs full direct sunlight can tolerate heat just like this one but something like this might not do so well in the sun i need to find out about you know all of these individually but uh yeah anyway if you want to get into plants i really recommend it i think start off with like a philodendron uh monstera any monstera any philodendron pothos pothos are very very easy to grow the neon pothos satin pothos peperomias i find they're quite easy as well don't worry too much if some of your plants die often garden centers will have sales so like flower power if one weekend every month i think they do all plants are 20% off so that was when i went i went up to flower power and i got four different satin pothos and if you can afford it i recommend you do the same if you find a plant you really like get a couple of them and put them in different areas in your home i'm in the southern hemisphere so my eastern facing window is the best for sunlight because the sun rises in the east and sets in the west here i actually the first plants that i got i put them in a west facing window because i was like ah yes they want light and when the sun's setting the light is beaming on them they roasted to death very quickly wherever you are northern hemisphere southern hemisphere don't put plants in a windowsill that faces the sunset it will roast them morning light is great so for me it's an eastern facing window the sun comes up they start getting sunlight around seven eight o'clock they get sunlight all the way through like basically direct sunlight touching them until 11 a.m so from 8 a.m until about 11 a.m and then from 11 a.m until i mean right now is 5 p.m and there is still beautiful light coming in the sun is not directly you know face the sun isn't directly being in this window but because the sun is setting on the opposite side the light is actually sort of bouncing and they get sunlight all through the day in that spot i do hear a lot of people in america online they say you should grow your plants in a south facing window which is the equivalent of my north facing window and i tried that once i put some plants on a north facing windowsill and they lasted there like two weeks and then they were toast not as bad as the west window but they were still toast so if you are going to put anything in a windowsill that gets full sunlight all day it's got to be a hardy kind of plant so that's why i recommend if you find some plants you like get a couple of them put one in each window and just see how it does and also people have their own personal taste in what they want their plants to look like if a plant gets lots of sunlight it'll normally bring out its unique sort of colorations so if a plant has some pink on it and you put it in the direct sunlight theoretically the pink should show more but some people might think oh you know i want to keep the leaves on this darker i really like the look of these leaves if they're dark so you don't want to give it as much sunlight so just have fun that's the whole thing about plants have fun experiment so anyway that's enough talking i hope you guys enjoyed today's video please subscribe if you haven't already give me a thumbs up on this to let me know that you like the plant content sorry about the lack of archie today plants are poisonous for birds friendly disclaimer that i keep my plants in rooms that have doors that the bird can't access many of these instakill for birds and for dogs and cats too so if you have pets i think i might have to make a separate video about pet friendly plants if you have some favorite pet friendly plants that you'd like me to include in my list in that video just let me know down below so anyway but that thank you guys so much for watching and i'll see you next time you