Do you grow non-edibles in a conservatory ?

[Odsox]

We have been looking after some plants (baby sitting) for a friend who is in the process of moving house.
On Sunday she came and collected them and on Monday I was having my breakfast in the conservatory and realised that now her flowering pot plants had gone, there was almost nothing left that was purely decorative.
There is the small Abutilon she left behind and a couple of 2 year old geraniums (last years bedding dug up and potted) and a Bougainvillea.
But, on prominent display I have 3 six foot tall Tommy Toe tomatoes, 2 potted Gartenpearl tomatoes, 5 potted Totem tomatoes, a largish lemon tree, 3 pomegranate bushes, a huge pot of lemongrass and a pot of Thai basil.
Not sure if I have my priorities right compared to "normal" people.

[Millymollymandy]

Tony, the amount of conservatories I see on the telly that don't even have a single plant in ......I mean what the hell is the point of a conservatory, they are FOR plants. Add a bougainvillea climbing up the wall for a wonderful splash of colour and yours sounds about right to me.

[Green Aura]

I don't have a conservatory Tony but if I did it wouldn't have any non-functional plants. Even in the garden the only flowers we've got are some spring bulbs - oh and lots of very tall grass at the moment

[crowsashes]

i dont consider any house a home unless it has a few plants in it!

my mum andi mustbe strange as between us we have a hell of a lot of plants in our houses. i dont have a conservatory but if i did there would definitely be edibles growing indoors.

at the moment though im the proud owner of 1 peace lily, a spider plant, 3 aloe vera plants. 2 other aloe type plants ( yet to determine what they are exactly) 2 umbrella plants, 2 mini palm like plants and a butterfly palm! cacti ( several types)

im hopeless with the plant names as they were given to me so completely oblivious to what they actually are!

i am hopeing to get some edibles for inside im tempted to get a couple of tomatoes going ready for late indoor crops as i have a sunny window sill, even in winter.

[Gem]

I love indoor plants, most of my seed tray seedlings start off in the spare bedroom and I have a bunch of low maintanance house plants. They generally make me feel like I am outside whilst inside :)

[Thomzo]

The ornamentals in mine are 2 bouganvillia for colour (they flowered beautifully all winter), jasmine for a bit of early spring scent, a dark purple begonia, cos it looks amazingly wierd and trails down the wall, overwintering pelargoniums and fuschias (in winter), a money plant my mother gave me which again looks suitably wierd and some rather dead cacti. Mind you, the bouganvillia do have a use as the flowers dry wonderfully for pot pourri.

The usefuls are aloe vera, 2 lemons and 2 oranges, a physalis that should be outside by now and tomatoes and aubergines once the ornamentals have been banished to the patio.

In the house I have: a variety of herbs on the kitchen window sill which come and go but there always seems to be a parsley and a couple of aloe veras, an Easter cactus that seems to think Easter starts in mid May and lasts until late August, a couple of amyrillus which move around depending on whether they are in flower or not, an aspidistra and a peace lily. Hmmm, seem to be very short of house plants for me, I must have forgotten something.

Ah yes, in the pottering shed (which is attached to the side of the house so sort of counts) there's a yucca and a something else.

Zoe

[Gem]

Oh yes, also 5 aloe veras (not including the many babys I have recently repotted). I occasionally get random allergys to things so I maintain a good stock of the stuff.