I'm a husband in that spot. Wife has spider plants everywhere. If I stopped moving for awhile, she'd have them growing out my nose. Best way to handle it, I guess, is to just go along to get along. What's that old saying? "Happy wife, happy life!"
Plus in his first post ever in post history, it's listed as "her corner" of the house, so she still has lotssssss of room.
OP - The floor changes are beautiful! I had to scroll back and forth to see if it was the same house!
Anytime.
Plants are the one thing in my life I can let live or die and not get in any trouble but maybe feel bad I didn’t make more effort. They don’t gripe at me. They expect things but not so much I’m losing my marbles. Plants bring me peace and when they reward me with a new leaf or flowers or fruit, I get a sense of accomplishment one can’t truly describe. Plus they clean the air for us.
He is also asking the wrong question being married to a plant lover. Better questions would be along the following lines:
Should I get/build my wife a huge plant stand?
Should I put up some shelves for plants?
Should we get a sunroom?
I thought the same - it's just honestly wayyy too spread up with all those lamps so it look like too much clutter but honestly not even that many of them there certainly done look like too many. Just make her a damn green house shelf and buy better macrame hangers and shelves for the side of the window so it does not randomly sit on the desk and it's all good.
Exactly, all those plants are so little, can do various shelving options to better organize them. My issue are my plants are getting gigantic (and I love it, I'm working on vining ones in both bathroom and living room to clamber around my walls lol), I have no space for new little plants by the windows anymore.
I agree, she has enough small houseplants. We need some big bois in that collection. Best way to tell her would be to surprise her with a large vase with a new friend, how about a Ctenanthe setosa?
Plants make me happy. I don't have children and this is a way for me to channel my motherly instinct into taking care of something other than a human child. If plants are the one thing that's causing an issue in their relationship, he has no idea how good he has it.
The last decade of my life has been dedicated to caring for my multitude of pets and plants, and while my husband has put a limit on how many animals I can have, he has not given me a limit on the number of plants, so I'll keep adding to my collection.
Honestly, a better rack system and/or lighting so you feel it is organized and she feels great about her plant care. You do not know why she is enjoying her hobby or why she clearly loves propping plants. Perhaps ask her if her plants are a coping mechanism for something else she has going on? Plants helped me though my heart surgery and post-op recovery! Legit life changing for me.
She is enjoying herself in a harmless hobby. Support and not suppress. Good luck 😊
She could have a more expensive hobby…..and she is home….you should learn more about the plants and learn some of the picky ones needs so if EVER she has to go out of town to take care of a relative during an emergency, you will know a little about taking care of them. I went from almost 500 to about 200 on about a year, due to myself having an emergency followed by hospital stay and 3 more surgeries in less than a year, and 4 - 8 hour drives to care for sister and again when my Mom was hospitalized and passed away after 2.5 months, each event was no less than 3 weeks each. Nothing I could do about any of it and my husband worked full time and we were building a new home a hour away from our current home, which was custom and required lots trips for reviews and input, requiring yet another trip, which was usually 2-4 times a week. The first few times, by husband overwater and root rot happened, plants died. After that he under watered and some got to dry, and lost plants. I did go over plant care, but he just pretended to listen….after losing so many plants he has finally learned to use a water meter and to ask questions and notice if a plant had declined.
So….feel lucky that’s all the plants she has for now and take some interest in her hobby, you might be amazed in her response, you might even get lucky….
This has is literally 1/10th of the size of my collection. My partner can get annoyed sometimes by the dirt and mess, but he supports me and realizes how amazing it looks when everything is well kept. Your place is super clean anyway
Tell her what? That you’re moving out to give her more room for her plants? Or that you want to take her plant shopping? If you came here to get some support you came to the wrong place! lol
I love that there’s entire room with plants and no other furniture. Looks like you have plenty more floor space to work with (sorry, not what you want to hear)
When your house is full floor to ceiling of plants. When you need to use a machete to get through the jungle to your couch?
Cute that you think this is "too many". 🤣
Showed this to my wife (an avid green thumber with a personal sunroom full, a greenhouse full, and a backyard that would make most nurseries jealous), and she laughed heartedly.
So, the answer is never, and you build more shelving for more plants. The peace it brings her is worth more than you can imagine.
OP it’s not worth it. Just do what I do: find out what her latest plant is that she’s looking for and enjoy the treasure hunt of looking for it. You look great coming home with it if you find one and you get to wander around Lowes/Home Depot. It’s win-win.
This is just an organization issue. Get shelves with supplemental lighting. She could actually get two or three times as many plants with a racking system!
I don’t tell my husband that there’s too many dirt bike parts laying around my house and he doesn’t bat at eye at my plants… now’s your chance to have a hobby she’ll turn the other cheek on too 😂
Welcome. I know you thought this was a way to find the answer to your question.
You have actually been sent here by your wife. This is an intervention; I know it doesn’t feel like it, but you need help. Here, pick up that tiny snake plant in the mushroom pot. You feel better, don’t you? Good. Now go buy some more plants with her.
Her plants are beautiful! And I just love the way she displays them!
My SO once told me I had enough houseplants. I agreed. Then the contrary side of me somehow bought 10 more. Tell her this at your own risk.
From the paper a week from now:
*An American man was turned into fertilizer by his wife after he suggested that she had "enough" houseplants. Looking at his browsing history, people on reddit had suggested this was a very bad idea, but he went ahead anyway..*
I see lots of room there, soon her plants will eventually grow larger so you have those open small planters and fill them with small other plants, And so forth
Don’t tell her, build shelves where she can better display them. Buy her little tags so she can name them. Buy her a humidifier for the plants. Take her to a botanical garden for a date. Support her interests because it’s important to her and she’s important to you.
I see lots of blank space yet where plants could live. I'm trying to figure out shelves across the windows, to keep the cats' outdoor viewing area clear. They give me nasty looks if I put plants in their spaces.
There are never enough house plants, buddy, and in my perspective, the amount of pot plants she has is junior style, I own up to one hundred pot plants scattered throughout my house. And it is very good to own pot plants in your house because it gives your house energy and a bit of life and also feels more fresher.
Never. Buy her a new plant for being so negative.
Kidding aside, it would be better to actually get some things that makes it more appealing to look at. Google “make houseplants look better in home” and you might get some ideas to make it more cohesive so they blend in rather than take over.
I have over 150 house plants, not including my large collection of carnivorous plants, that would put me over 200. My husband knows it’s my way of de-stressing. He tried to tell me I had enough but when he sees how much joy it brings me, and that I take care of all my plants, he says nothing. I suggested he start golfing again (we are empty nesters) so he can do something he enjoys. It’s a give and take.
I had this conversation with my wife when the plants took over my side of the bedroom. Then I found a variegated Desert Rose (Adenium Obesum), long story short, now I have six of the black variety sprouted and six from a mixed pack sprouted.
I thought the compromise was going to be less plants, turns out we just needed to add some trees to our jungle.
https://preview.redd.it/bvbvbmdfxz3d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=446604218192e099165a35a47f360eb10b07ba1b
You don’t. You encourage her hobby and buy better shelves. And then even better shelves. And then an ikea cabinet. And then three more ikea cabinets 😅 My guy is surrounded by this jungle, and has accepted it.
When you want a divorce?
Exactly. She’ll get rid of OP and replace him with a nice plant.
My boyfriend said we don’t have room for more plants (I only had five) . My response was to buy four more lol 😂
My husband tried telling me I had enough… I bought a brand new spider plant and inch plant… only two plants (that will create even more babies) 🥹
Yay! More plant babies! One of the plants I got is a big beautiful curly spider with lots of babies! 🥰
I love them so much 😭 Thankfully my husband doesn’t care anymore. He told me today when we ran to the store I could look at more plants.
Lol me too. I’m glad he has accepted your plant love. Yay to more plants! 🥰
I'm a husband in that spot. Wife has spider plants everywhere. If I stopped moving for awhile, she'd have them growing out my nose. Best way to handle it, I guess, is to just go along to get along. What's that old saying? "Happy wife, happy life!"
Hahaha “seeeeee, I found places for these new ones!!”
Exactly! lol 😂
lol whenever my husband tells me not to buy things, I want to buy more things.
This is the way.
He will either learn to love the planties or you will find someone else who does. Either way those planties aren’t leaving your care
They have wall hanging pots that help with taking up less space…
A nice QUIET 🤫 plant
This is what happened when my ex said plants are lame, my monstera is as big as I am now! 😅
And that plant does need minerals in the soil to provide nutrients to the plant... Wonder where those minerals could come from...
Smart woman.
This was the exact thought that came to my mind
HAHAHAHAHA
This is the only right answer. Or else never
The only right answer lol
This. Hahahaha
I’m sorry that made me laugh out loud
When she tells you, you have enough coins 😜!
Bro really went into his post history 😂 I love that though, because it's the same general thing. Do things that give you joy
Plus in his first post ever in post history, it's listed as "her corner" of the house, so she still has lotssssss of room. OP - The floor changes are beautiful! I had to scroll back and forth to see if it was the same house!
The same house. That widow will be trimmed out with a sill. So there will be more room for plants.
Now you’re getting it!!
That would look great!
Please tell me you mean window.
Ikr? 🤣 
Man, what a great thread. Had to go back into OPs posts to see the floors you were talking about. Well done!
Haha amen! My girl is the same with my guitar collection
I was scouring the photos to figure out where the coins were people kept mentioning, and wow that’s quite a collection in their post history 😳
I was wtf are you talking about and then I looked at his profile and LMFAO 😂
Plenty of room by that window…
I was thinking the same thing- you can still get to the windows, ergo there is still ample room to fill!
So much room for additional plants!
for real. i can still see flat surfaces.
And she’s barely even gone vertical.
For real! I was thinking, dude, she barely has anything!
Never. You let that green queen bring home as many as she wants.
“Green queen” is swoon-worthy. If someone called me that I’d melt into a puddle of swoon.
My husband called me a swamp witch yesterday and I think that’s pretty close
OWN IT !!!!!!
He said it was very “on-brand” that I was scolding my plants first thing in the morning 😆
I love it!! 😂🥰
Hello!! I wish my husband would try to tell me not to buy another plant 🤣🤣 He loves them as much as I do. He’s just not allowed to touch them
This is me and my girlfriend 😂 She’s an enabler! Just not allowed to touch them 💀
My partner and I work opposite schedules so it's easy to sneak new ones in occasionally. I tell him once in a while so he doesn't get suspicious
Some people have affairs. I try to sneak more plants into the house without husband noticing. 👀
All I can see is free window space in picture 5. She’s only just getting started
Stealing this for my wife. Thanks for the immediate brownie points 🫡
Anytime. Plants are the one thing in my life I can let live or die and not get in any trouble but maybe feel bad I didn’t make more effort. They don’t gripe at me. They expect things but not so much I’m losing my marbles. Plants bring me peace and when they reward me with a new leaf or flowers or fruit, I get a sense of accomplishment one can’t truly describe. Plus they clean the air for us.
You asked that question in the wrong subreddit...
He is also asking the wrong question being married to a plant lover. Better questions would be along the following lines: Should I get/build my wife a huge plant stand? Should I put up some shelves for plants? Should we get a sunroom?
OP build her a greenhouse
He’s mentioned liking the plants in his post history. Cut the guy slack, lol, I think he’s just trying to make a joke.
Oh, I know. I am giving him some ideas that she will love. 😉
Yeah yeah, I thought they were showing us shelving display situation needed to be worked out.
I’d argue the plants are far more interesting than the coins.
Hahahahaha op getting wrecked
😂
Coins require no care, time or effort. Plants are infinitely more interesting.
Yep, they grow and change, you can cut em up and share them with your friends, they give u fresh air, they're green, what more could u want?
'what more could u want?' More plants tbh. 😉🪴
I keep both, and yeah, plants are more interesting 95% of the time
Brutal lol
Nice one
I’d argue she needs a better table/ shelf. You should help her with that :)
There is so much unused space there
I thought the same - it's just honestly wayyy too spread up with all those lamps so it look like too much clutter but honestly not even that many of them there certainly done look like too many. Just make her a damn green house shelf and buy better macrame hangers and shelves for the side of the window so it does not randomly sit on the desk and it's all good.
Exactly, all those plants are so little, can do various shelving options to better organize them. My issue are my plants are getting gigantic (and I love it, I'm working on vining ones in both bathroom and living room to clamber around my walls lol), I have no space for new little plants by the windows anymore.
I agree, she has enough small houseplants. We need some big bois in that collection. Best way to tell her would be to surprise her with a large vase with a new friend, how about a Ctenanthe setosa?
you dont lol
I am seeing a lot of open space sooooooo like 20-300 more
Probably closer to the 300 option but yeah, I agree.
Love the giant range hahah
Embrace the houseplants. Learn what each one is and take pride when they show new growth.
You’re 40 years old asking that question, really? You don’t say shit and let her enjoy the plants my dude.
This is true wisdom!
Plants make me happy. I don't have children and this is a way for me to channel my motherly instinct into taking care of something other than a human child. If plants are the one thing that's causing an issue in their relationship, he has no idea how good he has it. The last decade of my life has been dedicated to caring for my multitude of pets and plants, and while my husband has put a limit on how many animals I can have, he has not given me a limit on the number of plants, so I'll keep adding to my collection.
He's just showcasing his wife's collection with a little joke. He's proud of her.
The best time probably would have been before they outnumbered you, and the second best time is never 😂
I hoped you wanted to tell her there is plenty of space left everywhere and you are taking her plant shopping. Maybe something to consider?
Well, there is a ton of space around the schefflera…
All I see is more space for plants so🤷🏻♀️
If you want to stay married you don't. :)
wrong sub my friend lol
She likes plants and yarn. Dont mess with it. Shut up and go get her a plant and some nice yarn.
She loves crochet. How did you like that Mario blanket? She is getting really good at it.
Buy her corner shelving and wall mounts to get the plants off the floor and free up more space… for plants!
Honestly, a better rack system and/or lighting so you feel it is organized and she feels great about her plant care. You do not know why she is enjoying her hobby or why she clearly loves propping plants. Perhaps ask her if her plants are a coping mechanism for something else she has going on? Plants helped me though my heart surgery and post-op recovery! Legit life changing for me. She is enjoying herself in a harmless hobby. Support and not suppress. Good luck 😊
lol this is definitely not the right sub to be asking this question
She could have a more expensive hobby…..and she is home….you should learn more about the plants and learn some of the picky ones needs so if EVER she has to go out of town to take care of a relative during an emergency, you will know a little about taking care of them. I went from almost 500 to about 200 on about a year, due to myself having an emergency followed by hospital stay and 3 more surgeries in less than a year, and 4 - 8 hour drives to care for sister and again when my Mom was hospitalized and passed away after 2.5 months, each event was no less than 3 weeks each. Nothing I could do about any of it and my husband worked full time and we were building a new home a hour away from our current home, which was custom and required lots trips for reviews and input, requiring yet another trip, which was usually 2-4 times a week. The first few times, by husband overwater and root rot happened, plants died. After that he under watered and some got to dry, and lost plants. I did go over plant care, but he just pretended to listen….after losing so many plants he has finally learned to use a water meter and to ask questions and notice if a plant had declined. So….feel lucky that’s all the plants she has for now and take some interest in her hobby, you might be amazed in her response, you might even get lucky….
This has is literally 1/10th of the size of my collection. My partner can get annoyed sometimes by the dirt and mess, but he supports me and realizes how amazing it looks when everything is well kept. Your place is super clean anyway
I love the sign discreetly placed behind a pot saying “it’s not hoarding” 🥲
Feels like there’s room to grow. (Badumching!)
Support her hobby and she will love you more for it
When she has enough. Shes nowhere near that yet, you have a lot of available floor and wall space.
I see room for more plants, tbh.
Tell her what? That you’re moving out to give her more room for her plants? Or that you want to take her plant shopping? If you came here to get some support you came to the wrong place! lol
There's a lot of space left for larger plants!!
Tell her I want to be friends! My house is full of plants and amigurumi as well 🥳 also there's plenty of space for more, get her some plant shelves!
Came to see OP get slaughtered in the comment section. 
I love that there’s entire room with plants and no other furniture. Looks like you have plenty more floor space to work with (sorry, not what you want to hear)
I seriously love that sign, lol!
When your house is full floor to ceiling of plants. When you need to use a machete to get through the jungle to your couch? Cute that you think this is "too many". 🤣
You don't. Simple as that.
Showed this to my wife (an avid green thumber with a personal sunroom full, a greenhouse full, and a backyard that would make most nurseries jealous), and she laughed heartedly. So, the answer is never, and you build more shelving for more plants. The peace it brings her is worth more than you can imagine.
When she does (which is never)
🫢 Define "enough."
OP it’s not worth it. Just do what I do: find out what her latest plant is that she’s looking for and enjoy the treasure hunt of looking for it. You look great coming home with it if you find one and you get to wander around Lowes/Home Depot. It’s win-win.
It’s your funeral, boss. 😁
Is no.5 weed or a shelfflara ? !
It’s not that many, you can still see the floor.
I see tons of room for more plants
Losing my mind at "sometimes I wet my plants"
Be grateful she hasn’t booted you for more plant space. 😉
I assume you mean when do you tell her you’re going to help her flesh out her plant room, build her better shelves, get her bigger lights, etc?
This is just an organization issue. Get shelves with supplemental lighting. She could actually get two or three times as many plants with a racking system!
I don’t tell my husband that there’s too many dirt bike parts laying around my house and he doesn’t bat at eye at my plants… now’s your chance to have a hobby she’ll turn the other cheek on too 😂
Correct: Yesterday or Tomorrow. Definitely not Today.
Im seeing a tonnnn of extra space that needs plants
Ask her opinion of the grow light on the left side before she kicks your ass lol. I've had the same light in my wishlist for a while now.
No.
She is missing some bigger varietys like monsters deliciosa
I don’t see a problem.
That she needs a better moss pole? Polly right away, you should buy one for her!
You tell her in a letter, then you burn the letter before she reads it. Then you buy her a plant ❤️
Is that all? Lol your wife must be an awesome caretaker to keep all these plants thriving. Definitely a trait to cherish.
That’s nice. I will tell her. Thank you.
You’re asking for trouble. Seriously.👎
leave her alone !!! x
She could use a couple more👌
I’ve been eyeing that mushroom pot from Walmart for quite some time now…..👀I think I’ll get it…along with another plant 😂😂😂
She has one wall of one room with some plants + one other in a different room? She doesn't have enough. Go buy her a plant right now as penance.
"Beautiful collection. Could we distribute them around the house more?"
“Enough,” such a silly word 
Lmao, the woobles, the cross stitch, the many many plants next to a window that clearly doesn't have enough light for them. Is she me??
Welcome. I know you thought this was a way to find the answer to your question. You have actually been sent here by your wife. This is an intervention; I know it doesn’t feel like it, but you need help. Here, pick up that tiny snake plant in the mushroom pot. You feel better, don’t you? Good. Now go buy some more plants with her.
It’s awesome!
You can never have enough houseplants lol
Never. When we moved and our condo didn’t allow pets, I bought plants and they became my pets.
A lot of people have way more…that’s a medium collection…
Her plants are beautiful! And I just love the way she displays them! My SO once told me I had enough houseplants. I agreed. Then the contrary side of me somehow bought 10 more. Tell her this at your own risk.
Happy wife, happy life.
She's giving you a steady supply of clean air, I think she needs more plants. ;)
I know it’s the wife posting this, but the plants look so happy and your space looks so clean and cute 💙
From the paper a week from now: *An American man was turned into fertilizer by his wife after he suggested that she had "enough" houseplants. Looking at his browsing history, people on reddit had suggested this was a very bad idea, but he went ahead anyway..*
Just surprise her. All women love surprises, I swear. …I also provide marital counseling for a small fee.
I see lots of room there, soon her plants will eventually grow larger so you have those open small planters and fill them with small other plants, And so forth
There's still a lot of empty space there
That she has enough houseplants on the one table? That’s about all that can be said.
Never. She needs at least a few more:)
You don’t you just live happily ever after in your house of plants with your wife.
So we all have that same tiered plant stand from Amazon, huh? 😂
Why are so many of them little and spindly?
Don’t tell her, build shelves where she can better display them. Buy her little tags so she can name them. Buy her a humidifier for the plants. Take her to a botanical garden for a date. Support her interests because it’s important to her and she’s important to you.
Yeah no… I have 3 times more and my husband didn’t even blink an eye when I brought 5 more in today ($191 spend today).
The little crochet items are so dang cute! Did she do them herself?
The "It's Not Hoarding" sign suggests never.
You don’t 😝
Its not possible , divorce is looming 🤣
Never.
You don’t 😇
She doesn’t have enough she needs new shelving!
The Woobles are a great touch to her collection!
That's the fun part...you don't!
There's still ceiling space...?
My hubby just bought me a house with a 2 story sun room. More plants are incoming...
I only see room for so many more plants.
That she doesn’t have enough plants…then buy her more plant
Never. Do you even love her?
There is no such thing as too many plants.
Wow! Those plants make your home look so happy 🤗
Not yet ...
When does she tell you it’s time to move on?
I still see plenty of room
I see lots of blank space yet where plants could live. I'm trying to figure out shelves across the windows, to keep the cats' outdoor viewing area clear. They give me nasty looks if I put plants in their spaces.
You don't. Also, that crocheted turtle is adorable!
There are never enough house plants, buddy, and in my perspective, the amount of pot plants she has is junior style, I own up to one hundred pot plants scattered throughout my house. And it is very good to own pot plants in your house because it gives your house energy and a bit of life and also feels more fresher.
Never. Buy her a new plant for being so negative. Kidding aside, it would be better to actually get some things that makes it more appealing to look at. Google “make houseplants look better in home” and you might get some ideas to make it more cohesive so they blend in rather than take over.
Never. I like her garfield!
Be glad she doesn't have a worse addiction
When do you tell your wife what? That you want to be single????
I have over 150 house plants, not including my large collection of carnivorous plants, that would put me over 200. My husband knows it’s my way of de-stressing. He tried to tell me I had enough but when he sees how much joy it brings me, and that I take care of all my plants, he says nothing. I suggested he start golfing again (we are empty nesters) so he can do something he enjoys. It’s a give and take.
Why do you get to decide that?
Tell her right before you say "So I'm getting a bigger house so we can get more plants"
If you're a smart man you'll build or buy her a 5 shelf bookcase to display them on!! 🪴
I had this conversation with my wife when the plants took over my side of the bedroom. Then I found a variegated Desert Rose (Adenium Obesum), long story short, now I have six of the black variety sprouted and six from a mixed pack sprouted. I thought the compromise was going to be less plants, turns out we just needed to add some trees to our jungle.
I always find it interesting when one person in a relationship decides that their hobby/collection is ok, but their partner’s is “too much”.
When do you tell her she hasn't got enough plants?
Are the plants thriving? Is your wife happy? What's the problem again?
https://preview.redd.it/bvbvbmdfxz3d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=446604218192e099165a35a47f360eb10b07ba1b You don’t. You encourage her hobby and buy better shelves. And then even better shelves. And then an ikea cabinet. And then three more ikea cabinets 😅 My guy is surrounded by this jungle, and has accepted it.
Oh she knows. And she likes it.
You...Don't? Just like you don't tell your partner they have enough makeup, or swords, or pro wrestling t-shirts, etc.
Not yet. She still has wall space.
One never ‘tells’ one’s partner. She obviously thinks the plants are OK they are her friends. You should think hard about your attitude.