For a coffee table or for a narrow shelf,choose a small gem that asks and deserves to be looked at closely. Just as an attractive ashtray or a colorful pillow can be a tasteful,decorative accent, so can small plants. They can pick up room colors, provide interesting contrast of form, and add attention-getting detail. But just as it would be wrong to expect a small accessory to carry a [...] Continue Reading…
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How To Keep Plants Growing And Blooming
There are some tricks to growing profusely blooming African violets. Proper amount of light, water, and food are the big three.
An east or west window is usually best for African violets, as direct rays of south sun may burn the leaves. North windows, except during the summer, do not offer adequate light. You can also grow the plants under artificial light.
Watering can be done [...] Continue Reading…
Flowering Plants
Everyone loves flowering house plants. Their blooms__sometimes fragrant, always colorful__catch and hold the eye. They make a unique addition to any decorating scheme.
Some house plants bloom for only brief seasons; others, almost continuously.Of the obliging beauties that put up bloom year-round, ever-flowering begonias and African violets head the list. Geraniums, close behind on the list of favorites, reward you with two seasons of bloom if you take stem cuttings [...] Continue Reading…
The Luxury Look With House Plants
The luxury look comes easily and quickly to the rooms of your home when you invest in suitable plants of larger size. If time is not important, however, you can begin with young ones and enjoy them as they grow.
All of the large plants, monstera and devil’s ivy opposite (grown totem style)__ prefer filtered light to full sun. All three are large enough to look right placed on the [...] Continue Reading…
Foliage Plants
Green is a color you never tire of, restful to the eye and refreshing to the spirit. That is one reason why foliage plants are so popular. Indoors, in winter, green leaves hint of springtime to come; in summer, they look cool and woodsy when temperatures soar.
You can’t possibly grow all the desirable foliage plants there are. Use pictures and cultural information here, as well as in [...] Continue Reading…
Avoid Water Damage To House Plants
When you mass plants, you improve greatly the conditions of humidity. Plants placed close together don’t dry out as rapidly as those that are displayed singly or are sparsely grouped.
But you also introduce the problem of watering grouped plants without causing damage to room furnishings by water stains. You’ll save watering time and potential damage to furnishings if you prepare carefully for your plant grouping in advance. You can [...] Continue Reading…
Shop Wisely For House Plants
This is a happy compromise if you shop wisely for flowering plants. Azaleas, cyclamen, or poinsettias purchased from your florist or greenhouse will stay in bloom for weeks, even months, if properly cared for. Choose plants with lots of buds, those not yet at their peak of color. Once in full bloom, position the plants so that they receive light but not full sun, which will push them rapidly [...] Continue Reading…
The Decorative Uses of House Plants
Plants are ornaments for the rooms in which you live. Of course, you enjoy them just for themselves, but you can increase your plea sure by selecting plants and placing them where they will be handsome room accents_the finishing touches to a decorating plan.
Perhaps you seek boldness of form or leaf pattern as a contrast to neutral backgrounds and solid colors. Or maybe color to reinforce [...] Continue Reading…
Outdoor Locations for House Plants
A summer out of doors is of real benefit to most house plants. Nearly all of them like the brighter light that they can get on a shaded porch or on a patio. Almost no house plant, however, likes full sun. Most of them need protection from strong wind and beating rain and are not well suited to growing in an open garden border.
A [...] Continue Reading…
My Plants Die After A While With Sticky Substance On Them, How It Can Be Cured?
Most of my healthy house (indoor) plants after a while get sticky substance over them, get wilted and eventually die. I can see sticky substance falling all around over my floor, carpet and vase.
