A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The House Plant Forum Please help.... plants are sick :(

Hi all,

I am new to the forum so hi everyone :)

I moved house a few weeks ago with my two huge house plants, one is a Dracaena marginata and is about 3 feet tall and the other is almost 5 feet tall and I have NO clue what it is... I saw it in a shop and it had no tags or anything with it. (I have attached photos of that so if anyone knows what it is and could tell me that would be great).

Recently we bought a Gerbera which was in full flower. This is where the problems seemed to start, at the same time I also had a bunch of flowers in the house so I dont know if it is coincidence of if we have brought the spawn of the devil into our house :( The Gerbera had 4 lovely orange flowers but these wilted and died within a week. Now the leaves look like this...




My boyfriend has a peace lily which was showing some signs of neglect and that was starting to pick up however has again taken a turn for the worst.

The Dracaena marginata which I have had for almost a year has never had any problems and is now showing the following:


And finally the plant which has no name as I still dont know what is it looks like this :(





I expected a couple of issues after moving my older plants but something definitely isn't right!!! :(

PLEASE HELP!!!!

Nicky

I don't know what your problem is but the mystery plant looks like a ficus lyrata or Fiddle Leaf Fig. Maybe when you moved, the plants were exposed to heat or light they weren't used to?

Does the new house have a water softener? If so, you might want to get a spigot that bypasses it and water your plants with that.

i concur on the fiddle leaf fig, and the water softener. alternately, if you have municipal water that is fluoridated, taht will cause the burn also. i used rain water when i was living in the city.