Come home to a jungle | Indoor plants | Gardening Australia

Are you an indoor plant person? Who doesn’t love to come home to a plant filled jungle?
Jane Rose-Lloyd is a horticulturalist, indoor-plant collector and self-titled strange plant lady.
She developed a love of plants from her grandmother, but she never thought plants would “consume my waking hours,” as they do now.
Her home is filled with about 200 plants.
A favourite saying of Jane’s is: “There is no such thing as an indoor plant.” Just certain plants can endure indoor conditions. Not all plants do survive the indoor life, but she loves trying to tweak those conditions so ‘new’ indoor plants can.
Growing, understanding and propagating plants is now a bit of an obsession, and Jane loves sharing that knowledge. Last year, she and partner Michael, opened a small shop in the non-profit arts space, Schoolhouse Studios. Some people come in hoping to buy a certain plant and are disappointed when they learn their house is not suitable, although she can usually suggest an alternative.
Jane says the smaller living spaces and lack of gardens has led to the current craze for indoor plants, but she is keen to point out the difference between a plant that is ‘rare’ to buy and one that is rare in its native environment and needs protection.
Of all the unusual plants in her collection, one of the most fascinating is the resurrection plant. It is a club moss, so its ancestors predate ferns; these plants existed long before dinosaurs.
“It’s endemic to the Chihuahuan desert. During dry weather, the plant curls up into a tight ball, kills off its chlorophyll cells and shuts down until the next rain. It can survive several years without water. When it does rain, it starts to unfurl, rebuilds its cells and begins to photosynthesise again. But it only ever reaches about 20cm across at its maximum size, and it might take 100 years to reach this maturity due to droughts between rainfall.”
Jane sometimes feels that humans are only highly evolved plants and that most of the things we do, plants have done the same before “and often do better”.
Featured plants:
Resurrection plant (Selaginella lepidophylla)
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That was a delight to watch.

[@wellingtonsboots4074]

Since Covid and the lockdown my houseplants collection has grown a lot. Just gone into tougher lockdown restrictions and stores are closed so i am going to experiment with some of my outdoors plants inside and see if they can adapt. Thank you this video enjoyed it

[@Trappy1]

I think I'm in love. Where can I find a woman like this?

[@donnaallgaier-lamberti3933]

Where do you get your pots? This is the hardest/most expensive issue of growing plants for me.. I have searched and searched for sources of "affordable" attractive planters. People talk about animals as being sentiment beings and that they don't want to eat them. I have ALWAYS believe that plants are every bit as much "alive" as animals. I have grown/propagated and protected native plants for the last 20 years in my 2 1/2 acre rural garden. I LOVE your correlation between plants and people....Plants are food, medicine, spiritual beings and alive!!

[@MichaelTaylor-jf2qo]

But cheap terracotta or concrete planters second hand or find some pots in op shops or on piles of hard rubbish, then buy white chalk paint from Bunnings and paint them! They’ll look amazing

[@FreddieBullNorwich]

Lovely, but could there be subtitles?

[@shumadev8334]

Nice plants! Btw did anyone tell you that you are a look alike of Ashwarya Rai?

[@tsigeredaendale6434]

Oh.... it is really nice collection., we have the same soul, God bless you more. Rose

[@hydalewhippets]

Interesting plant. Pity I can't buy any in South Australia, otherwise I'd get as coupler as house warming presents fro some friends that love weird / strange plants.

[@life.is.colour5387]

I love this. More time tho please.

[@corinalina]

I love the shop. Wish it was nearer to my place..

[@tamekahill2826]

Beautiful I wish it was longer.TFS

[@johnhourmouzis668]

My wife and I love gardening Australia but there is some annoying new commentator that’s so unnecessary. Please please do not needed. Watching live in Melbourne Friday night.

[@Sophistry8]

The ABC was trialing a new Audio Description service to help the visually impaired. It can be disabled in your TV remote and audio settings. Sorry for the confusion. 💚 4mReply

[@Vaibhav-lt5xc]

Great Respect and Love you Jane ... Wish you Live Forever and keep Caring , Loving Plants like this Forever ... 😍🌷⚘🌻🌺🌹🍀🍁

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beauty is you

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Love it..

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Excellent

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Very nice

[@fastcook6701]

Cool thanks

[@eyezone5204]

brilliant.

[@Matt-ny1ue]

Jane is so passionate i love to hear her talk about plants! Great video

[@lizarose61]

So beautiful... Love it. ♥️😘😘

[@darelleknight]

A pity there is no link in the description to this horticulturist's social media account or store. I hope then they got paid for their time in providing Garden Australia with such beautiful, articulate and relevant content.

[@darelleknight]

*Gardening Australia

[@7_years_and_]

Aishwarya Rai 's sister.

[@chndrjt]

Who called her _strangeplantlady and not Poison Ivy?

[@darylmackay835]

Glider lessons

[@itlldoo6128]

umm ! Ok ...........cool thanks.

[@calmblueocean7243]

So, um, ok, yeah ✌