Every little helps!

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I've managed to get some more houseplants repotted over the last couple of weeks.  Ever impatient, I'd like to get them all done and dusted ASAP, but I really do need to take every opportunity to get on in the garden that I can before the weather makes it too difficult and/or unpleasant.  As I've only got one pair of hands, I'll just have to be satisfied with perhaps getting one or two done each week ~ hopefully, though, I'll have them all sitting in nice fresh pots of compost by Christmas😏

Aspidistra are very slow-growing plants.  This one lives in a corner of our bedroom and I've had it a number of years.  It always amazes me how it seems quite content to be in such a dark area of the room!  Quite apart from the poor plant needing fresh compost, I was quite keen to repot it into something a tad less weighty.  The terracotta pot it was in is surprisingly heavy for its size 😯

I was a little taken aback when I decanted it and found such a small amount of root.  It seems happy enough, though, and does put out new leaves.

I put it in a similar-sized pot but this one, being plastic, is nowhere near as heavy!

I've had this rhipsalis for a few years, too.  It was in the living room previously but once the porch was finished, I moved it out there.

It wasn't too bad, root-wise, but it was very dry ~ oopsies!  Rhipsalis are rather brittle plants so lots of little pieces broke off during the re-potting process.  I decided in for a penny, in for a pound, and knocked off as much of the old, dry, compost that I could without causing too much destruction!

I put it into a larger pot, although it isn't a helluva lot bigger which means that it still fits in the original saucer that it was sitting in before.

Back in it's place in the porch, guarding the log pile 😄  With it being a trailing plant it looks much better in this new, taller, pot.  Rhipsalis are also slow-growing, apparently, although I wouldn't describe this one as such.

That's all the upstairs plants repotted now, along with all but one done in the porch.  It's a really good start but I do have a fair few more to get through!