Problems of Indoor Plants

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Of the various house plants available,the majority are comparatively easy to manage and with reasonable care will give several years pleasure, while others are more trying and will test the skill of most competent house plant grower. Several nurserymen are wise enough to attach labels to their products with clear printed advice regarding each particular plant, and whether they are easy or difficult to manage indoors. When purchasing plants needing higher temperatures, like coliseums(crotons) and dieffenbachias, it should be realized that these are expendable and will in some cases give only a few months pleasure, though keen plants men seem to manage many of them very well once the plants have settled down in their new environments. But it should not be forgotten that when compared with the often expensive bunch of flowers, the exotic foilage plant is indeed good value for money.

Problems of Indoor Plants - Getting your plants home, unharmed

Purchasing a suitable plant is one thing,but taking it from the shop to the home unprotected can often undo all the good work of the nurseryman. So, when acquiring plants during the colder months, adequate wrapping should be insisted on. When making your choice, do not pass too lightly over the clean plant that has been carefully wrapped. Plants, as a rule, leave warm greenhouses and, though they quickly adapt themselves to cooler indoor conditions, a short spell in below freezing conditions will often prove fatal. The damage may not be apparent until sometime later.

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Mention of cold conditions suggests a further precaution when making one’s purchase. Generally speaking, there are few shops where space is not a permanent problem, and this is frequently made obvious by the number of plants stood outside on the pavement. This may be all very well for the hardier type of indoor plant during the summer months, but the sight of a Begonia rex propped against the outside wall of a shop in the middle of March is enough to chill the blood. Need one be warned not to buy from the box outside, or from the inconsiderate person who placed it there?