Houseplants on Windowsill, Afternoon in Fall in album houseplants

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Four houseplants on a windowsill, with afternoon sunlight filtering through their leaves

Oct 17th, 2011, by Alex Zorach

This photo shows four of my houseplants on my windowsill, with afternoon sunlight filtering both through their own leaves, and the leaves of a linden tree out the window.

In the summer in this room, the sunlight is almost too bright, but in fall, with a lower angle of sun, some of the light is blocked by trees outside, and the effect is quite pleasant.

Some of these plants have fared better than others. The fiddle-leaf fig on the left, named Jerome, is the most healthy and vigorous of my houseplants, and has grown substantially since I bought him several months ago. You can see a photo of this fiddle-leaf fig that I took about three months earlier. The other pots, moving from left to right, are a coffee plant, a dracaena (Janet craig compacta), and a begonia.

You can also see my photo of two houseplants on the other windowsill in this room, which shows an ivy and pothos.