Silly Plant Tricks

The house we bought last year has an atrium. At one end of the atrium is an area with no flooring, just dirt. When we moved in, this was mainly occupied by 2 corn plants and a couple of rubber plants. The corn plants, one in particular, overwhelmed the whole area.

I kept thinking about cutting it back, but now I'm glad procrastination set in, because I would have missed this:
Corn Plant Flowering

The blooms really are pretty spectacular - 2-3' long and very pretty balls of white flowers. The scent, however, is sickeningly sweet, and quite overpowering. So I think now that the flowers are turning brown, we will go ahead and cut of the three main branches of the larger corn plant, and leave the smaller second plant (not pictured) to grow better, and perhaps flower itself in a year or two, and in the meantime, the rubber plants now growing in the corn plant's shadow might actually get some light!