“It’s YOUR turn, Monstera”, so says the National Garden Bureau, of which I am a member. From their website: Each year the National Garden Bureau selects one annual, one perennial, one bulb crop, one edible, one houseplant, and one shrub as our “Year of the” crops. Plants are chosen because they are popular, easy-to-grow, widely adaptable, genetically diverse, and versatile.
I’m turning up the volume here in praise of their selection for this year’s houseplant, Monstera! I love this plant. It’s got DRAMA all over it, and not in a bad way. I took this photo while visiting Portugal’s Botanical Garden and was in AWE of the size of the leaves. They were at least 2 to 4 ft long and look at the light colored “rope” climbing up the tree… that’s an aerial root.