Friday | December 14, 2007 | 1:53 PM
Welcome to the Jungle

I am slowly plotting a mini jungle of houseplants for my apartment. I’ve already been given a spider plant named Inigo to keep Phil, my philodendron, company. I’ve unequivocally been promised to receive, sometime after Christmas, a potted spear of aloe vera that I’m told will soon overtake my life and my kitchen with skin-soothing, ugly spike-leaved goodness.