Plants at home

After work today, we met outside a flower shop. High time to fill the window shelves with some plants. Maria is more into green plants, since they are usually easier to handle and, not the least, last longer (nice looking all year around). The shop wasn't big, so it was a little bit tricky finding plants being able to withstand direct sun light. Our living room has the windows towards south, so the sun can get strong there. We left the shop with four different plants, all of them new kinds for us. The coffee plant might not give beans, but is a little bit fun to have. The myrtle plant will hopefully get small white flowers later on. The one most to the far right is a funny looking one, a milk bush (Euphorbia tirucalli). The tall one is the easy-to-handle mother-in-law's tongue.
Together with the four smaller plants (Kalanchoë and ponytail palm "flasklilja") we found during the weekend, we now have plants in the kitchen and living room. We'll get plants for the other rooms later on, maybe we will bring some of our old ones from the southern during the summer vacation.
Right now the plants are not so big, but we will see how they look 5-10 years from now. According to the handling information about the species, several of the plants are actually big plants, not really suitable for the window shelf in the long run.