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 floor
or near a wall or a window.

Big plants like these need some space around them and large containers so that they’ll have a well-balanced, stable appear ance. As far as daily care is concerned, they make only modest demands.

For these__and all large plants grown in big pots,the most frequent cause of failure is overwatering. A check of surface soil is not adequate. You’ll have to dig down with spoon or trowel to see whether the soil at the outer edge of the pot at a depth of two or three inches is dry. If it’s dry, it’s time to water. If it’s moist, however, the soil at the center of the container has ample moisture to feed the main root mass, which is located in the middle of the container. In a month or two (allowing for some differences between cold and warm weather rates of evaporation) you’ll know, approximately, how often a given plant needs watering.

Plants with vining tendencies are among the most popular foliage plants. They are exceptionally easy to grow in the home, and they’re within everyone’s budget if they are purchased as young plants and brought to the desired height over a period of time.

There are two ways of training such vining plants:
1. on a moss stick
2. on a length of bark-covered wood or of pressed fern (osmunda) fiber, which you can buy from a garden center shop.

The moss stick is superior since it permits you to pour water into the central cylinder as well as into the pot, thereby providing a moist growing medium for the aerial roots that the plant will produce. This method allows you to supply water not only to roots at the base but all the way to the top, where it’s also necessary for healthy plant growth.

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