Stewarts Office Plants

We supply many businesses across the South, from Sussex and Surrey, through Hampshire and Dorset to Wiltshire and Somerset. For more information about the services we offer visit our home page, or contact us here. In this blog you'll find news, interesting snippets, stories and pictures of our staff's adventures out on the road.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Flowering Swiss Cheese Plant

Here's something I've never seen before, after 16 years in the job.

This is (dodgy) phone pic taken of an enormous Monstera Deliciosa (aka Swiss Cheese Plant) cascading down a rockery in an aquarium in Bournemouth, where we have looked after the plants for over fifteen years.

I don't get to go there very often, so was delighted to see the Cheese Plant was so happy that it had produced these enormous - if not particularly pretty - flowers. They are a good six inches long, and as I say I'm certain I've never seen one flower before.

It's an unusual maintenance job, compared to the average office plant maintenance job, though it does come straight after the plants on the end of Bournemouth Pier I've mentioned before. It's certainly the only job where we are watched closely by terrapins when drawing water from a tap just inside their enclosure.

Jonathan