forty five years I've had one of these, but ...

[Phil Pascoe]

We moved house when I was eighteen, and found a small money plant abandoned on a windowledge. After watching the cat chew the leaves off it for a few months and not quite killing it, I threw it in a bigger pot with a few handfuls of earth (no gardener, then ). It thrived and I've had cuttings of the same plant ever since. I'd read that they flowered, but his is however the first time (in this Country) I've seen one flower -

It's kept outdoors from May to mid September, then brought in.

 

[Fitzroy]

It's a sign, go buy a lottery ticket!

 

[Bod]

Their not called Money plants for nothing.
When one flowers, it means money is coming into the house.

Bod

 

[Phil Pascoe]

No wonder one hasn't flowered in 45 years then.

 

[Eric The Viking]

They are almost indestructible. When I was about three (1963) I was given one at the local church fete because I didn't win anything at the hoop-la stall (the chap took pity on me). It had just two tiny leaves, and neither I nor my mum was expecting it to survive.

My mum still has the main plant in their conservatory - huge and still going very strong. We have two of that one's clones, and I've just given four clones from them to the grandchildren of a friend.

Ours are horribly neglected but seem to thrive on it, they've flowered the last few years (well, a bit), but we don't seem to be any richer so far ;-)

E.

PS: Every so often they fall off the landing windowsill - compost and leaves all over the stairs. Even that doesn't seem to hurt them much. Apparently they're popular as beginners' Bonsai subjects.

PPS: The flowers on yours are much bigger and better than the last ones ours had - you obviously have the knack.

 

[rafezetter]

Well I'll be.. my stepmother had several of these around the house ever since I was a child and I never knew they flowered. I wonder why it took so long? - the flowering I mean