Even before I had much interest in growing things on my own, I knew what a peace lily was.  I think I might have had one in college - gracing the pit that was my apartment.  I don't think it bloomed much though.

A couple of weeks ago I bought one of these, also known as Spathiphyllum, from Home Depot.  It was in a section of plants that seemed to have arrived from Florida, and was $9.99.  After pulling 6 or 7 out of the dozen or so that were crammed together, this one seemed to be the best.  I couldn't pass it up.

It has taken me 2 weeks, but I finally got it into it's own pot with some good organic potting soil, some Espoma, and Sphagnum moss all mixed together.  It was an experiment.  We'll see how it goes.  :)

I find it odd though, that there's no entry for "peace lily" or "Spathiphyllum" in the plants database.  At first I thought there must be something fishy with our data, so I went to the source.  The USDA Plants database from which we obtain all of our plant data.  A search for spathiphyllum there also returns nothing.  Go ahead, try it: http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch?keywordquery=Spathiphyllum&mode=sciname&submit.x=17&submit.y=7.

So what gives?  This evening Bob hypothesized over quesedillias that Is this actually a tropical plant that doesn't grow natively anywhere in the US, and that's why the USDA doesn't catalog it.  It remains a mystery at the moment....

Rest assured, we're looking into this kind of stuff.  We sincerely want Greenthumbr to be the place to go for thorough, high-quality plant and information - both user generated and from scientific sources.