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House plant safety
As adults we understand that house plants are there for our viewing pleasure and should not be consumed. However, children and house pets have not come to this realization yet.

House Plants for Beginners
Almost everyone has received a gift plant for their home or just wanted to bring some green leafy life into their living space. Many people would like to keep the plant growing and healthy, but don't have a clue.

House Plants in Winter
Many plants from different climates can often be grown indoors as house-plants.

It is better to keep a house plant on a slightly dry side than overwatered.
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A basic house plant soil mix is 2 parts loam, 1 part composted organic matter and 1 part coarse, clean sand.
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Most house plants, especially foliage plants, come from tropical areas. They are accustomed to a warm, humid environment with moderate light. Our homes, especially in winter, are often cool, dry and dim.
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Many vine house plants are equally well suited for either climbing or trailing. Try your hand at growing vines both ways, for an indoor garden that's sure to be a conversation starter.
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Aspidistra - Hardy low water use house plant
Aspidistras have been used as indoor plants for many years. They are one of the toughest indoor plants and once given a good bright light situation will continue to look good for many years.

HOUSE PLANTS -- Plants that are grown and raised indoors in containers.
HUMIDIFIER -- A piece of equipment used to raise the humidity of the air in a room.

HOUSE PLANTS - Plants that are grown in containers inside the home.
HUMUS - This is the organic residue of decayed vegetable in the soil (i.e. leaf mold or compost.) ...

House plants, like most other plants, need fertilizers containing three major plant food elements: nitrogen (N), phosphoric acid (P), and potassium (K). They are available in many different combinations and under a multitude of brand names.

House plants are the perfect way to enjoy the outdoors when humidity or heat prevent.
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House plants start to slow down as the days get shorter. Cut back on watering and feeding until next spring. Winter feeding will result in weak growth.

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A house plant has a laundry list of conditions to which it must adapt: dry air, low light, low humidity and artificial heat in winter. Some consideration of your houseplant's needs now will pay off with lush, healthy foliage throughout the year.

Most house plants are propagated by either leaf, stem or leaf-bud cuttings. However, large-leaved plants with a hard, woody stem may become too large and difficult to propagate by these methods.

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Do not house plants in your homemade planter until several days after finishing your mold.
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Transporting House Plants.
When transporting plants, remember the two seasons of the year that can cause damage to the plants: the hot summer and the cold winter months.

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I grew a few as house plants in a south-facing window. I never noticed any odor, probably too subtle for the human nose, but houseflies tended to congregate in that window when the plants bloomed.

Get Fussy with Your House Plants - Most of us probably have a house plant or two or fifty brightening up our living spaces. I'll admit that at this time of year the general day-to-day maintenance of my indoor garden becomes a robotic routine.

Botrytis (Gray Mold): Botrytis is a fungus that attacks the leaves, flowers, stems, and rhizomes of house plants. It first appears as a round brown or gray spot that gradually turns into a mass of fuzzy gray spores.

This is the UK's best selling house plant for Christmas - not bad considering it's technically classed as a Mexican weed. The trademark bright red colouring is not, in fact the flower, but the leaf-like bracts.

NOTE: Sweet Potatoes make curious and attractive house plants. Obtain a mature tuber, stick three toothpicks in a circle around it so that the toothpicks stick out at right angles.

What to put on your compost pile: grass clippings, leaves, weeds without seed heads, fruit and vegetable peelings and trimmings, fruits and vegetables that have gone bad, egg shells, dead house plants, dropped leaves or flowers from house plants, ...

The "pot mums" are best treated as a house plant. They can be bought in flower all year round because they've been grown in an environment where the temperature and light are carefully controlled.

House plants have been proven to clean and clear air in a house or apartment; plants are the other end of the gas exchange between flora and fauna, exhaling oxygen after respirating our CO2 emissions.

If you think you don't have time to take care of indoor plants, but still want to enjoy all their benefits, talk to your lawn care provider about adding house plant maintenance to your list of services.

They are commonly found around doors, windows, house plants, basements, garages, and in almost all terrestrial habitats. They do not spin a web but roam at night to hunt for food.

I have two types of kalanchoe house plants, have pruned them. Cannot get them to bloom! Have them in porous soil, bright afternoon west sunny window. I use a fertilizer that can be used each time. I water. HELP??

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FUNGUS: A primitive form of plant life which is known to the house plant grower as the most common cause of infectious disease - powdery mildew, sooty mould and area diseases caused by fungi.

Bugs around the roots of house plants.
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Compost tea, made by steeping compost in water, is the best way to use your compost on house plants. One of CleanAirGardening's bins has a base that collects liquid, so you can produce five gallons of tea with no extra effort.

Ebb-and-flow gardens are best for growing anything potted, such as house plants. A watertight tank or tub periodically fills, then drains back into the nutrient reservoir.

Tuberous: The tuberous type of begonia is also very popular around the world as a bedding plant and also as a greenhouse plant.

Miniature trees are very ornamental and make very interesting house plants. If you are lucky miniaturised fruit trees will produce tiny fruits.

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Whether you fill indoor pots with beautiful, leafy house plants or plant your entire outdoor landscape in a field of colourful blooms, working with plants is one of the most popular activities for young and old alike.

There are two main kinds of stem cuttings, softwood
and hardwood. Most shrubby and herbaceous subjects
as well as house plants can be increased from
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You can get such bulbs from a local hardware store or a large nursery. An incandescent lamp can keep a small house plant growing, but isn't necessarily your best bet for starting a large garden indoors.

Using thumb and forefinger to nip off the tips of branches is called pinching back. This basic pruning technique forces side growth, making the plant more compact and dense. It is especially useful with annuals, house plants and shrubs.

As the autumn progresses you should cut back on feeding and watering house plants as they generally take a nap during winter.

They are also selected or bred to be hardy for certain climates such as hot climates, cold climates, wet climates and dry climates. They do not do well as house plants since they need normal seasonal changes to properly produce and open flower buds.

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