Maintaining hanging plants during the winter months
The best place to install ceiling plant hooks for a Monstera Swiss Cheese plant
After a little under a week, I returned home from Thanksgiving, happy to be back in my own space. But when I looked up at what used to be a bright green Monstera Swiss Cheese plant full of green leaves, I was absolutely confused. Half the leaves were yellow and it was extremely cold in my unit. I looked around and wondered what the heck happened while I was gone. I touched my baseboard heaters, and they were cold to the touch.
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Anyone who has visited Chicago for more than a day during the winter months knows we don’t have the luxury of not turning on the heat past October (and probably September). But it was too late at night to make a fuss. I unpacked my clothes while my dog happily investigated all of her usual hangout spots to make sure they hadn’t been messed with.
After getting out of the shower, I rolled myself in my comforter like a burrito and dealt with no heat on a winter night. The next morning my condo board resolved the issue. Apparently something had happened to turn off the water boiler. For the life of me, I don’t know why no one else complained while I was gone. Still, I stared at my dying plant and wondered how I was going to save a tropical plant (native to the rainforests of Central and South America) during a Chicago winter. I’d already questioned leaving it on the hanging plant hook before I pulled my suitcase out of the door.
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Then, Christmas came and I was gone for almost two weeks. Instead of leaving it on the hanging hook, I balanced the Swiss Cheese plant in between two plants on my electric fireplace, ones that were thriving from a simple lamp. And I returned home to more yellow leaves. This hanging plant, even when I switched it from one area to the next, made me wonder if my hanging plant was in the wrong place or was it just never meant to last through the winter. And since I didn’t install the hook in the first place, I was reevaluating whether I needed to move them altogether.