Houseplants of the 1970s (ferns and tongues)
by Anorak | 5th, November 2012
IN the 1970s, home decor was abut house plants, most often ferns, the mother-in-law’s tongue and Pampas grass. In this gallery of 1970s rooms, the house plant is there. Always there. The 1970s truly were the golden age for ferns…
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November 12th, 2012 at 12:02 pm
no Winker – I never used to waste time reading about it first…
November 12th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
no Winjker – I never used to waste time reading about it first….
November 9th, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Is that you dairy?
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November 6th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
you’d need sunglasses to remain 5mins in any of those rooms!!
November 6th, 2012 at 7:21 pm
The Real Stig – all that piece of furniture needs is a pair of stirrups!
November 6th, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Yampster you rebel!
My bedroom walls were painted purple and orange. Strangely, my parents seem to have blocked this from memory…
November 6th, 2012 at 5:28 pm
I am disappointed. I see no cannabis sativa.
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The foremost piece of furniture in the third photo is…….interesting.
November 6th, 2012 at 4:13 pm
Spider plant – another one that just wouldn’t die….
November 6th, 2012 at 9:47 am
They certainly were. We had one wall painted post office red with Habitat paint, the most expensive substance known to man at the time. Unfortunately, I had drawn a pair of giant breasts on the wall as a joke before I started. They still showed through after 4 coats. We ended up hanging pictures over the nipples and changing the lighting
November 5th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
Were the seventies really that colourful?
November 5th, 2012 at 4:43 pm
Happy memories – but where’s the Swiss Cheese Plant?
November 5th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
I had and still have an aspidistra. They are almost impossible to kill. It used to live entirely on coffee and tea dregs and fag ash