Plants need beneficial minerals There are specific beneficial minerals that will enhance the growth of the plants in your care. Lack of these nutrients could mean that plants are not growing at the optimum potential, but merely surviving. Here's what you should know: Beneficial micronutrients: Sodium is involved in water movement and ionic balance, [...]
Are your Dracaena roots covered? Over the past few months, we have been jotting down questions about plant problems from plant technicians. Some of the questions couldn’t be answered with just a simple “more water, less water” or “watch for bugs” type of response. A bit more background was needed. A bit more history about [...]
Light duration changes seasonally The total number of hours of light per day that a plant receives is called the light duration. Duration combined with intensity adds up to the total foot-candles a plant is receiving. For example, a plant that is receiving 100 foot-candles for 12 hours per day is getting the same [...]
Keep your plants looking their best Sometimes there just seems to be dust and dirt everywhere! Dusty Dracaenas, forlorn Ficus, splattered Spathiphyllum and cobwebbed Clivias. Keeping your plants clean is just as important as making sure they are properly watered. The health of the plant depends on your attention to their cleanliness. Use Your [...]
Fun Orchid Facts Orchids are amazing In interiorscapes, all orchid flowers will fade faster in low light. They need the high light to hold onto their blooms and extend the life of the blossoms for two months or more. Their blooms will fade from the bottom up. Buds drop because the plant was shocked [...]
Disagreements happen. They are an unavoidable part of our lives. At work we may have to evaluate the work of our fellow employees, offer different ways of doing things, or we may need to stand up for our ideas and opinions. At home we negotiate with our spouses and deal with sometimes obnoxious strangers. Some people [...]
Are you ready for spring? It’s one of those things that just happens once spring approaches. A sudden urge to have everything sparkling and beautiful. The plants in your accounts should always look great...no dust, straight stems, best side forward and moss just right. One way to keep them looking that way is a [...]
Check your Calathea plant for pest infestations It’s that time of year again… early spring. It's been warming up for months now and the humidity is low. Perfect for those insect surprise attacks. This can happen on plants you have come to know well and trust to be pest-free. For example, maybe you have [...]
Dracaena Janet Craig The wide variety of styles and types demonstrate the diversity and versatility of the Dracaenas. It would be a rare interiorscape account that didn’t include at least one plant from the Dracaena group for they are truly a collection of plants that have adapted well to life indoors. As interiorscapers, we [...]
Give your customers beautiful bromeliads as gifts It’s getting close to Spring and you may suddenly want the entire world to feel as good as you do. You want peace and harmony with your clients, employees and coworkers. Sometimes the customer is not always right. The customer knows it. You know it. Your employees know [...]
