I recently started taking more interest in my house plants and what environment they would flourish in but there's a few I can't identify. Everyone was so great with helping me on the last picture I posted! Could I ask for help again? Thanks in advance, I appreciate your input.
The one in the middle is an Oxalis of some description. It looks unhappy - is it sitting in water? If it is, you need to repot it; they're from very dry areas naturally. The other two look so familar, but I can't place them.
Thank-you everyone for helping me! The Oxalis is unhappy!!! That's one of the reasons I wanted to know what it is, so I can help it. No, it hasn't been sitting in water... well maybe it has, since the dirt it's in is in pretty bad shape. I'm in the process of repotting the house plants if they need it and when I found out what this was I was going to try and provide the correct soil and find out where would be the best place in the house to put it. Actually, it is probably in dire need of a re-potting, I think I've been way over fertilizing everything not knowing the damage it could do, the soil gets really hard when I let it dry out. I think the Peperomia is looking really good, so I'll find out what I'm doing right and keep doing it! From what I've read so far about the China Doll I'm under watering it. I'm looking forward to seeing how well my plants do if I actually take some time to look after them rather than just being a weekly waterer that knows nothing! Thanks again.
No problem! The Oxalis will do best in a very fast-draining soil and a full-sun location. Most Oxalis are weed species here in Ecuador (apart from the ones we grow for food), and they grow in the poorest soils imaginable, even pure volcanic ash and white quartz sand. I see them growing out of cracks in cement walls, too. You should probably be watering it once a week or so - depending on the plant's location; it will tell you when it wants water by folding its leaves in close to the stems. Oxalis is one of those plants where if you neglect it horribly, it will thrive. I used to have a huge pot of the purple-leafed kind that I watered twice a month and otherwise forgot about. It was the healthiest indoor plant I've ever had, and it used to bloom right after I watered it.
