One serious plant: Monstera plants are behemoths, but not too hard to maintain
Eric Lindberg of Moses Lake stands atop a ladder in front of the Monstera plant growing above his laundry room in his home.
Casey McCarthy/Columbia Basin Herald
The holes in the leaves of the Monstera help the plant in its natural tropical habitat by allowing the wind and rain to flow through its broad leaves.
A web of roots and limbs rests under the wide leaves of the Monstera plant in Eric and Karen Lindberg’s home.
Eric Lindberg said he has tied cloth around some of the limbs of his Monstera plant to guide the roots into the nutrient soil as the plant continues to grow.
Limbs of the Monstera plant grow toward the skylight inside Eric and Karen Lindberg’s home.
Plenty of Columbia Basin plant lovers take advantage of the plentiful sunlight in the area, not only filling their yards and gardens with thriving flowers, plants and veggies, but inside their home, too. There’s a wide variety of houseplants popular nowadays, from tiny succulents and cacti to the sheerly “monstrous” ones.
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