Georgiana

Georgiana is a giant Hawaiian Pothos who came to me early in 2021. I purchased her at a local garden store, she was parked inside the store next to a bunch of canning jars, just sitting there being gorgeous. I named her Georgiana (Darcy). She was $52 which seemed like a plant pittance for something as ridiculously pretty as this:

Large Hawaiian pothos in the corner of a sunny room. — How beautiful is she? Also hey chronic illness fans, that watercolor sketch on the wall of a guy in a blue shirt is one I did during a web class with Howard Schubiner. I think I captured his likeness pretty well. :)

Things started out okay...

She stayed lush for awhile. Here she is later in the year, traveling.

Same plant as before, in same corner, but with three 'arms' trailing on the floor.

I tried stringing her arms up along the window, which looked way more menacing that I'd imagined it in my head before I put them up. Now she looked like she was coming for me, from behind, as I sat at my desk.

Same plant, with arms strung up over plastic hooks on a window.

A couple years later, thing weren't going so well

She got spindly. Really, really spindly.

Georgiana looking very sad, big leaves gone, only a few trailing arms, thin and spindly.

I tried putting her in a giant pot, thinking it would give her room to grow. Then I asked about caring for her on social media, and everyone said the last thing I should do was put her in a giant pot.

But I really believed she needed room to roam and so I kept her in the big pot, put literal wheels under her (a plant stand with wheels), you know, to give her that sense of wind in her hair as I rolled her from corner to corner. And then I got her a huge trellis. It was kind of a mistake, I misread the measurements and it was a LOT bigger in person than I thought it would be, but I went ahead and built it.

And WOW DOES SHE LOVE THE TRELLIS

This is her in October 2024

Georgiana back to her old self, and better - bigger leaves, covering this large metal tower in her pot.

She immediately took to the trellis, that was the magic that that got her to grow, just the ability to climb seemed to change everything.

And this is her today, in July of 2025

She likes to roam, so she'll send off shoots along the wall and the floor, and sometimes I don't catch the floor ones until I move her, and then I have to wrap them around up and around her, creating this big botanical beehive hairdo that never ends. Just keep wrapping, just keep wrapping.

Georgiana on her trellis, flashy and gorgeous, green leaves everywhere.

I added friends...

A couple succulents at the bottom, and this different kind of pothos that I got from a nice lady in a Fancy Plants group several years ago. Apparently these are rare? I dunno. She had cuttings and asked if I wanted one, and I did, so here we are. I planted it below Georgiana, and have yet to name it, even though it's been there for a couple years now.

A few leaves of a varigated pothos in the bottom of the pot, the color is dark green one side and pale green on the other.

And of course we needed No-Face...

A tiny figurine of the character No-Face from Spirited Away, he's swinging in a little swing