Pot plants

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I sit in an office next to a window which gets the blazing sun all afternoon. I want something nicer than a blind to look at, so what kind of plant should I get?

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Unfortunately the nearest thing (Venus fly-trap) is pretty difficult to keep alive. I had one called Scylla the Killer for a while when I was at Oxford.

Hyacinths are good if you don't mind the smell. (I love it, but some people think it's a bit overpowering.) Pretty colours, easy to keep alive for a while. They don't last that long though.

Lilies are a complete bastard to keep alive, and will make your office look like a funeral parlour, and will then die and rot to make your office smell like a morgue. Or at best a compost heap. ... Don't go there.

Really it depends on your personal plant aesthetics, though. Do you like big flouncy green things? Colourful things? Arty minimalist things? Plants that make a Statement? Plants that will attack your cow-orkers? Plants that require absolutely no attention whatsoever?

(If you want some little fluffy cacti that are easy to look after, ask me before Saturday, and I'll get my parents to bring some -- they have loads.)

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Big flouncy and green seems to be the best idea. The window is quite large (1x1.5m ish) and partly obscured by a cabling duct, so dainty won't really cut it. Something about 1m tall, maybe. Or something smaller to go on top of the computer. Shrug.