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Profile Image Eileen McHenry

emch

Gardening in mostly deep shade in Zone 6. My passion is adding more native plants to my landscape & clearing out the foreign invasives.

Syngonium podophyllum 'Albo Variegatum'

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emch

I love the multilayered effect of the colors on these leaves #details

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emch

#foliagefriday

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emch

Looking from this angle I see a rather dowdy woman in sunglasses facing left, perched on a lawn with a very steep slope & a pretty strong wind at her back. #foliagefriday

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emch

#foliagefriday

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charlotte

I love the colour

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emch

...and that's definitely a pig shouting, with a trotter held up to his mouth, at upper L #foliagefriday

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usgardentags

We see a warthog! 🐗

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emch

Close enough, @usgardentags !

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moore.794

I saw a snapping turtle bottom right

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emch

Now that you mention it, @moore.794

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emch

Hey! I just took another gander at that leaf and realized there are 2 faces on it, not 1... #curiouscases

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emch

Not until I got #upclose did I notice the man with the sunglasses...

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usgardentags

😎 We see it!

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emch

#upclose shot of the tip of a new, all-white leaf emerging #newgrowth

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emch

This half-and-half #pattern is the very leaf I have been waiting for...

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hkyfvr

Perfection 😍

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charlotte

That's pretty

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emch

This is the leaf I have been waiting for! Solid white and green, divided right down the middle #foliagefriday

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emch

Decided to clip the variegated one back and try to get the stems to root...I hope the #houseplants tag applies despite this plant being in the office... #foliagefriday

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emch

Voila #foliagefriday

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emch

...and closer... #anticipation #variegated

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KariSamuel

Ohhhhhh! Come on baby!! 🤍

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emch

I may never get the 50/50 green & white leaf I've been wanting, but as far as solid white goes, WE'RE ALMOST THERE #variegated #anticipation

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emch

I think this definitely counts as #trailing

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emch

Finally, that all-white leaf I have been waiting for...maybe? #foliagefriday #anticipation #houseplant

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emch

Trying again with another new leaf #foliagefriday

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charlotte

Me being me. So nosey. What happens every other Friday 🤔

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emch

Wait, what @charlotte ? Oh, I see what you're asking. Payday is what happens every other Friday!

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emch

The seemingly all-white leaf forming on this plant died before it unrolled, but here are a couple of the other leaves for #foliagefriday

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NicholasLeDoux

Uhm, looks like the fairies 🧚‍♀️ forgot to finish their work, or did they? Lol

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NicholasLeDoux

Beautiful nonetheless

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emch

#foliagefriday

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emch

LEAF IS STILL TIGHTLY FURLED. #anticipation

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emch

#foliagefriday #anticipation

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heatherdirtyhands

What's so special about the 18th? Lol

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emch

Payday, @heatherdirtyhands !

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emch

Feel as if I have been waiting forever to see this leaf unfurl... #foliagefriday

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lovestogarden

#anticipation

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emch

#foliagefriday #newgrowth

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kelsey92

Love it

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emch

Getting closer and closer to my ideal of a half-green, half-white #variegated leaf

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angiecrazycatlady

Wow, that's gorgeous 😍

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emch

Getting closer to the 50/50 variegated leaf I was hoping for #foliagefriday

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emch

Here you go @sushiwaitress #foliagefriday -- the funny little tuft off to the side is the putative "Neon Robusta" which has stayed very compact and non-drapey so far...

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sushiwaitress

I love these arrowhead vines. My grandmother was so good at growing them but I just kill them.

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lesliecole49

You're doing fine Eileen the leaves look healthy. It does grow slower but let another leaf or two come out then snip them off snd root them, add them back to the pot. I don't try to train mine upwards, l have it in big pot to drape down. And a few others in various stages of growth

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emch

@lesliecole49 the snip-and-root thing is not working for me at all. From now on I am going to just plug a root node into the soil without detaching it from the mother plant to multiply them... @sushiwaitress how do your Syngoniums die on you? What is going wrong? Killing one of these is almost like killing a plastic cactus LOL

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lesliecole49

That'll work too

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sushiwaitress

@emch 😂🤣😂🤣 just forgot to water 🙃

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emch

@sushiwaitress you can just stick a cutting in a pitcher of water and keep it alive forever that way!

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lesliecole49

..."like killing a plastic cactus " 🤣🤣

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emch

Another well-variegated leaf. Still hoping for one split right down the middle, half green, half white... #foliagefriday

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sushiwaitress

It looks soooo tall!! 😂🤣😂

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emch

I will get a photo of the whole pot and tag you, @sushiwaitress so you can get the full effect

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sushiwaitress

Woooooooo!

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emch

#foliagefriday

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emch

My cutting is wilting badly. STILL NO NEW ROOTS. Any suggestions peeps?

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heatherdirtyhands

Idk maybe it's too much foliage to be supported but such little roots? Maybe make them smaller cuttings or cut the leaves in half across or remove the leaves and just do the cuttings by node? I know that sucks but my guess is its just too much

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heatherdirtyhands

Or just try to hang on till a root pops out?

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emch

That makes sense @heatherdirtyhands -- I would have expected to see roots long before this!

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lesliecole49

It should root within a week. You do have nodes in the water...? 🤔

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emch

At least 6 nodes in water water @lesliecole49 but they aren't budging in nearly THREE weeks. 🙄

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lesliecole49

Wow, hmmm, maybe cut off a couple of the bottom nodes, to refresh it so to speak and cut off some of the end leaves and try rooting them too

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emch

I have had this cutting in water for over 2 weeks. Does anyone know how long I need to wait before it starts rooting?

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charlotte

Nope 😂😂😂

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cheriej

It looks nice and healthy, so it must be OK. Right?

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emch

Yes, definitely @cheriej but the little root nubbins aren't budging...

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emch

How #easycare is this baby? It's totally happy in a glass of water. When the stem roots I'll plant it in the pot with the parent which was unfazed by being clipped down more than halfway... #foliagefriday

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emch

Close-up of some of the cooler leaves #foliagefriday

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emch

I'm close to snipping some off and rooting it to fill out the pot this #foliagefriday

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kelsey92

I would cut some off.

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lesliecole49

This is gorgeous! I've been watching for a verigated arrowhead vine but they are hard to find around here

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emch

I had to send for it online @lesliecole49 -- I am impressed by the diaphanous pale-pink ones owned by people at this app

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lesliecole49

I do have a few nice colors, a pink and a darker red. I guess I'll have to look online...

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emch

Just starting to open...

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emch

#newgrowth

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hkyfvr

Looks awesome 💚🤍

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emch

Newest leaf unfurling over my cubicle #foliagefriday

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emch

#newgrowth #foliagefriday

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emch

Two more new leaves coming out on #foliagefriday

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emch

You know gardening is slowing down for the winter when every individual new leaf gets posted LOL #foliagefriday

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hkyfvr

I know the feeling. 😂

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kimmy01

💚💚💚

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heatherdirtyhands

I know I dread the time of year of just mums and holiday cactus that are labeled wrong lol. Boring. Also when stores have no plants and there's no light. So depressing. Here's to posting every new leaf!

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emch

Finally a really good block of white on one of the leaves... #foliagefriday

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emch

#foliagefriday #anticipation This new leaf looks to be very variegated indeed...

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sushiwaitress

Such a graceful curve

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emch

#foliagefriday

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lesliecole49

Ooo, I love this! #wishlist

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hkyfvr

It is beautiful 💚🤍💚

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sunshine061973

I have two varieties-a variegated and solid green-they are from plants my husbands grandmother planted around 75 years ago if not longer

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teju

#pretty-leaves 😍

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emch

This is what I mean...the leaves at the base have zero white variegation, and as you go higher and higher on the vine the leaves are much whiter #foliagefriday

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emch

Each new leaf is a little whiter than the one that came before...there seem to be 2 layers of pigment with totally different patterns of green and white on each layer... #interestingfoliage

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emch

I wish I'd set this deeper in the pot! There was plenty of room and the plant wouldn't already be falling over!

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dadayba

Beautiful 🌱 🪴

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crabby58

Very nice looking plant💚

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emch

#newgrowth

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emch

New home in my cubicle! Found a pot I already had that I liked better than the yellow one. Gumby and Pokey were added for moral and physical support. #interestingfoliage

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Susanandsteve

That's funny 😄

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italydiva

😆😂

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hkyfvr

Looks great in that pot. Love Gumby and Pokey too. I bought my son a Mr Bill a few years ago. 🧡💚

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emch

Ooooh nooo @hkyfvr !!!

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emch

It's here!!! Just wondering what taggers think of the new variegated plant growing in something like this bright yellow pot -- minus the sweet potato vines. I tried it in a dark blue pot and it didn't have any zing at all. Or is it too hard to tell looking at this terrible photo? #interestingfoliage

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crabby58

Looks great in the yellow pot👍love it

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cheriej

It looks great in the yellow!

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hkyfvr

Love the new plant. Variegation looks beautiful. Looks great in the yellow pot. #houseplant 👍

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emch

I was looking up Syngoniums and was dazzled by this one with a #splitpersonality #notmyplant #notmyphoto

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dadayba

It’s beautiful

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hkyfvr

Fantastic foliage 🤍💚💚🤍

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emch

After a frenzied search I found a seller in California. Sent for it just now. Every other plant I could find shipped from freaking Indonesia. Not that they weren't stunning plants, but $150 shipping for a $90 plant is a little steep.

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