New Life for Some Houseplants

I wish I had taken some photos before I began to prune.  But, here is what the Areca palm and the Ficus tree look like now:

They fit the space they call home in the corners of the living room at the clubhouse.

They have needed a pruning for a year or more, but this seemed to be the 

right time to give them some new life with pruning, adding potting soil, 

new sphagnum moss and some fertilizer.

A spritz of water on the old frond 

and that new frond that has not yet unfolded 

should help to keep the dust down.

When I bought the moss and potting soil at Paul and Sandy's

I saw some plants that I just had to have on the coffee table

to get me through to Spring in 2 weeks.

A primrose, some Tete-a-tete daffodils and 

a Codlaeum variegatum (as labeled).

I would call it a croton.

Can't wait for the  daffodil buds to open.

I hope the croton does okay in the cool room.

Maybe the temperatures will be more moderate in the coming weeks?

I couldn't resist a new cyclamen.

Spring has arrived at my house!