Perhaps you should send a note or video to Gardeners World saying how uplifting the plants are. Also do you know that the spider plant is the most popular house plan in the UK - this was the answer to a question in a Quiz I did on Saturday so I have no verification of that fact! In friendship Marilyn Miles *Treasurer Gloucestershire** Area Quaker Meeting* UK registered charity number 1134212. *0780-155-8931 (please use this number as I hear better on a mobile)* www.glosquakers.org On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 at 12:01, Ann Turner < warden.scarborough@pandhquakers.org.uk> wrote:

Hello Wendrie, Yes yes yes love houseplants; I wasn’t aware it was Houseplant Appreciation Day, or Week - hurrah! Scarborough Meeting House has many houseplants, and it’s all my fault. And hirers who have plants which are now too big for their homes being in plants to add to the ‘family’. I look after them. A hirer recently said to me ‘you must look after them very well’ and I replied ‘ they look after me very well’ as they are a great upliftment to me. What a wonderful post to respond to. Be grateful I’m not attaching photographs…. I really do love my plants! I feel they make the Meeting House have a lovely atmosphere �de0a Oh I am being so restrained at not sending photographs…. In peace and friendship, Ann Ann Turner Warden, and Bookings Scarborough Friends (Quakers) Meeting House m: 07763 763 792 t: 01723 362 756 (mostly answerphone)

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On 10 Jan 2023, at 18:00, William Waddilove <william@waddilove.co.uk> wrote:

 Coventry Meeting is the proud owner of a long lived and bounteous Christmas Cactus. If I had known this thread was starting I would have taken a picture when I was there today (gas servicing) and yesterday (Kitchen water heater). These things seem well suited much of the year they are plain and then they blossom forth. Like Esther's plants, I think they thrive on neglect. The one person who appeared to take an interest put a notice on it saying Keep Off (or something). On an almost related subject a while ago when we were discussing the garden with a garden designer we said one of the features we wanted was 'something pretty to pick for the table in the centre of the room' all the year around. William Waddilove - who does maintenance work at Coventry Meeting house.

On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 at 17:13, Quaker House via wardenship < wardenship@lists.quaker.eu.org> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Quaker House <house.quaker@googlemail.com> To: Wendrie Heywood <wendrie@mindfulbusinessservices.com> Cc: Quaker Wardenship Support <wardenship@lists.quaker.eu.org> Bcc: Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:10:45 +0000 Subject: [wardenship] Re: Houseplants Hello Wendrie

New Year's greetings to you too.

We have house plants in our Meeting House.

I look after them (when away they look dried out by the time I return).

I am impressed with myself and the area of negligence as Poinsettias love you to ignore them and leave them in one place, with little fuss. I have had one for 3 years now, purchased in TESCO so far from a lovely garden centre,....and it has survived all these years!

I bought another from TESCO and it seems happy too..

i would always welcome more plants, I buy cut flowers too as it brightens up the place and many hirers comment on this.

Kind regards,

*Esther White* *Quaker House Coordinator*

01752 600760 house.quaker@googlemail.com www.quakerhouseplymouth.org.uk Quaker House, 74 Mutley Plain, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 6LF

On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 at 17:06, Wendrie Heywood < wendrie@mindfulbusinessservices.com> wrote:

...

Hello,

Happy New Year to all!

I've been informed by my calendar that today is Houseplant Appreciation Day. No, I'd not realised there was such a thing either... When I mentioned this to a gardening friend she said her local garden centre was busy celebrating Houseplant Week all week.

Several of the buildings I manage do have plants inside - in one instance cared for by the nursery who involved the children in watering and potting up spider plants and bulbs to take home. Kingston QMH has a tree inside which is looked after by the gardening group.

So my question to you all is does your building have plants inside? If so, who looks after them? If not - would you like any?

Yours in peace,

Wendrie Heywood she/her MindfulBusinessServices.com Book a meeting with me <https://calendly.com/mindful-business-services>

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