Tired of being a shopping mall walker this winter? Instead, visit a local full service garden center. This is a garden center that is open year round and generally does not include the big box stores unless you live a southern climes like Florida, Texas, Arizona, or California. Stores are likely to have walkways, likely concrete […]
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“Got The Winter Blues”- Go For A Walk At A Garden Center
Posted by Hugh on December 16th, 2018
Posted in African violet (Saintpaulia), Anthurium, Bromeliads, Calamondin Orange, Chinese evergreen (Aglaonema), Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera), Dumbcane (Dieffenbachia), Ferns, Flowering house plant, Foliage plant, Landscape ideas, Paperwhite narcissus, Peace lily (Spathiphyllum), Purchasing Plants, Rubber Plant (Ficus), Snake plant (Sanservieria), Staghorn fern, Tillandsia, Tropical Plants (non-hardy), Umbrella plant (Schefflera) 
Comments Off on “Got The Winter Blues”- Go For A Walk At A Garden CenterHouse Plant Basic Care Tips
Posted by Hugh on September 12th, 2016
Tropical house plants decorate homes, restaurants, shopping malls, and work environments (USDA hardiness zones 8 through 11). Many will grow in medium to low light areas of your home, work, and where flowering plants do not perform. Here are some basic house plant tips: They languish in areas where temperatures are below 55 °F. […]
Posted in acidic soil, Aphids, Arrowwood (Syngonium), Bromeliads, Calthea, Chinese evergreen (Aglaonema), Container garden, Dumbcane (Dieffenbachia), Fertilizing plants, Flowering house plant, Foliage plant, Interior (house) Plants, Mealy bugs, Mite susceptible, Mites, Philodendron, plant nutrition, Planting tips, Poisonous or toxic, Potting Mix, Pruning, Purchasing Plants, Repotting plants, Rubber Plant (Ficus), Sanitation, Scale, Southern Appalachian Region, Summer heat tolerant, Tropical Plants (non-hardy), watering tips, winter hardiness, Winter Protection Comments Off on House Plant Basic Care TipsHouse Plants Purify Indoor Air
Posted by Hugh on December 30th, 2015
Yes, house plants do indeed clean, filter and purify the air of various toxins and pollutants. Back in the 1980’s the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)conducted tests to determine the best house plants that helped purify indoor air in homes and work environments. If humans were to traveled to inhospitable planets, humans would inhabit biospheres full of plants scrub […]
Posted in Arrowwood (Syngonium), Banana (Ensete spp.), Bromeliads, Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera), Foliage plant, Interior (house) Plants, Norfolk Island Pine, Orchids, Philodendron, Poinsettia, Poisonous or toxic, Rubber Plant (Ficus), Staghorn fern, Tropical Plants (non-hardy), Vine Comments Off on House Plants Purify Indoor Air
