Healthy houseplants tips
Healthy Houseplants and Flowers - Buying Tips!
To insure success as a beginner in growing house plants, you must start with strong, healthy plants. We give you tips to make buying flowers and plants easy both when you buy from your neighborhood florists and when you order flowers online.
- Observe these conditions when buying flowers and house plants.
- Buy houseplants from a reliable and credible nursery, where you are sure to get healthy plants and professional advice.
- Buy the type of plants that will not grow too big for the available space in your home.
- Check the soil mix to be sure that it is not dried out. If it is dried out, the plants are being neglected.
- Buy houseplants that have a well-balanced shape.
- Check the roots. Many roots protruding from the bottom of the pot is a sign of neglect. The plant should have been repotted.
- Do not buy flowering plants if the majority of the buds are opened. Those plants will have a short flowering life in your home.
- Do not buy plants if you are prevented from thoroughly checking them out.
- Ask the nursery attendant for information on the plants' feeding, watering, fertilizing, temperature and lighting needs and where best to locate the plant in your house.
- Be sure you can provide the conditions which the plant requires.
- Make sure that your plant is appropriately covered during transportation. Plants need to be protected against extreme temperature and wind.
- Put your new plants in a segregated area for one week to prevent the possible spread of pests and diseases to your other plants.
- Signs of trouble in house plants
- Leaves show signs of plant diseases and pests. Example; leaves are discolored and/or have holes and are limpy.
- Uneven distribution of leaves
- Soil mixture is dry and hard. That's a sign of neglect.
- Tips for ordering house plants and flowers online
- Be sure that your order is clearly written or correctly selected.
- Be sure that the plants or flowers ordered are available.
- Order early and make sure that the delivery date does not conflict with the florist's delivery schedule.
Give specific information, including a return address. - Order flower online from florists who control their own delivery.
When you order flower online, you would not be able to use the advice given for shopping from your neighborhood florists. Growers Flowers.com maintains excellent customer satisfaction.
House plants suitable to certain lighting conditions
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Healthy houseplants tips
LIGHTING CONDITIONS HOUSE PLANTS
Low light/Shade Aspidistra - Cast Iron Plant, Asplenium - Bird's Nest Fern, Dracaena - Corn Plant, Fatsia, Ferns, Fittonia - Mosaic Plant or Nerve Plant, Maranta - Prayer Plant,
Neanthe Bella Palm or Dwarf Palm , Philodendron, Sansevieria - Snake Plant
Indirect/diffused/filtered light Anthurium - Flamingo Flower, Asparagus, Azalea, Begonia rex, Bromeliads, Chlorophytum - Spider Plant, Chrysanthemum, Codiaeum - Croton, Dieffenbachia -
Dumb cane, Fuchsia- Lady's Eardrops, Hedera - English Ivy, Hoya - Wax Plant
or Hindu Rope Plant, Impatiens - Busy Lizzie or Patient Lucy, Monstera -
Swiss Cheese Plant, Philodendron, Poinsettia, Scindapsus - Devil's Ivy or Pathos
Bright/direct sunlight Acacia - Kangaroo Thorn, Bougainvillea - Paper Flower, Cacti & Succculents, Celosia, Citrus, Coleus, Hibiscus, Jasminum - Jasmine, Lantana, Oxalis - Wood Sorrel
Plant Lights
Pointers to help you make the best use of all available light in your home!
Examine your home to determine where there are the following lighting conditions; bright/direct light, filtered/indirect light and dim/low light.
Know the lighting requirements of the indoor plants you bought. If it is not written on the tag, ask the attendant.
Place indoor plants requiring bright/direct sunlight in windows facing the south if you live north of the equator, and in windows facing north if you live south of the equator.
Place plants requiring a medium amount of sunlight (filtered/indirect) in the same rooms as above, but behind curtained/screened windows.
Place plants requiring dim/low light in hallways, bathrooms or bedrooms.
Turn indoor plants around at least twice per month during the growing season in order to maintain a balanced growth.
Signs of Lack of light
New leaves are smaller and not as colorful as they should be, if they had received the required amount of light;
Old leaves look pale and may have curled edges;
Variegated leaves may turn plain green;
Leaf tips and edges may be brown;
The plant's growth is in one direction towards the source of light. Leaves on the new stem are pale green and small. The new growth on cacti and succulents looks limp and weak.
Signs of Too Much Light
Stems and leaves have grey-brown or yellow patches;
Plants wilt during the day despite all other plant-care factors being appropriate for that plant. (Factors: watering, temperature, humidity, soil and fertilizing)
Cacti become yellow.
8 Rules to ensure your success with house plants
Don't over water. Over watering prevents the roots from breathing air which they need.
Plants need a rest in winter. Reduce your watering, feedong and heating from the amount given during the growing season.
Monitor the humidity of the rooms, and in winter, increase the humidity especially for tropical plants.
Keep a close observation for signs of trouble and treat them immediately.- Good general care is a preventative measure to attacks by pests and diseases.
Group like plants together. You will better capture their beauty and they will also grow better.
Timely repotting improves the growth and health of your plants.
Know the plant-growing conditions that exist in your home and buy house plants that will be compatible with those growing conditions; such as, light,
temperature and humidity.
Pay attention to the advice given for taking care of the plants listed below in our Beginners' Plant Group. These plants are some of the most common houseplants and a few are referred to as ‘cast-iron' plants. They grow well in a wide range of conditions and you would be successful as a beginner with them.
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