Understanding plants used as indoor plants
If our plants are to remain decorative for as long as possible we have to get to know and understand them. First of all we should realize that a house plant is not really any different from a garden or wild plant except in as much as we have brought it into the home. It is special because it is attractive and adaptable. A house plant is one that is grown indoors under normal living conditions.
Yet often our living conditions are not those of the plant if it were growing naturally. House plants have become such because of their adaptability- we really should call them home plants. How marvelous it is that a plant which comes from the dim, steamy jungle can live cosily inside four walls in different climate and soil and that next to it a cactus from the hot, arid desert will bloom on a sunny kitchen windowsill.
Indoor plants vary as much as those which grow outdoors for there are herbaceous kinds, shrubs, trees, climbers and creepers, bulb, tubers, corms and rhizomes. There are perennials, biennials and annuals. There are evergreen and deciduous plants. There are those we prize for their foliage and others which we admire for their flowers. There even some indoor plants we grow for their fruits. There are plants to suit us all and the different ways in which we live.
For the sake of convenience house plants are divided into two groups, temporary and permanent plants. The terms speak for themselves. Generally speaking, the temporary plants maybe considered to have a life, once brought into the home, which is measured in weeks while that of permanent plants may be measured in months or even years.
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The temporary plants are more familiar to more people than the permanent kinds. They include such flowering kinds as azaleas, cyclamen, heaths, primulas, cinerarias, the berried solanums and capsicums and the ornamental leaved coleus, the scented exacum and crassulas.
It is only natural that one should want the flowers to go on as long as possible. Yet what so often happens is that from the moment the plant is brought into the home its flowers slowly but steadily decline in beauty and life. This need not happen. If we can learn to appreciate the plants needs we ought to be able to enjoy it to the full. Fortunately , it does not take long to get to know plants.
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