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30 09, 2019

Codiaeum: The Croton

By |2019-05-15T08:22:41-07:00September 30th, 2019|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Codiaeum: The Croton

No wonder we all use the common name of croton! Hard to get your tongue wrapped around all those vowels. Yet even if it's hard to say we love to use Codiaeums in all their many varieties. Crotons can be used in so many ways and so many locations that they are one of the staples [...]

25 09, 2019

What To Do When Pests Attack

By |2019-05-15T08:07:10-07:00September 25th, 2019|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Pests, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on What To Do When Pests Attack

When the seasons change it time to be on the lookout for surprise pest attacks. This can especially happen on plants you have come to know well and trust to be pest-free. They can sneak up on us at any time and give us a surprise attack. It's just a pest-filled world, and we have to [...]

23 09, 2019

Spotlighting… Rhapis!

By |2019-05-15T07:54:17-07:00September 23rd, 2019|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Spotlighting… Rhapis!

About palms in general Rhapis To help you share my passion for Rhapis, also known as the lady palm, a bit of knowledge about its family relations is important. It is a member of the Palmae family. This ancient family is made up of a large group of evergreen monocotyledons. Palms were first defined [...]

18 09, 2019

The Courage to Cut

By |2019-05-08T10:10:46-07:00September 18th, 2019|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on The Courage to Cut

How do I prune a Ficus? Where should I start to prune? How can I cut it without asking permission? Is someone watching me? What if I make a mistake? We get personal satisfaction from pruning by improving the appearance and making great-looking trees. Over the years we have developed the "courage to cut". We are [...]

16 09, 2019

Back to Basics

By |2019-05-08T10:01:14-07:00September 16th, 2019|Categories: Customer Service, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Back to Basics

After a day when everything seems to be going wrong, you may find it difficult to believe, but most customer complaints can be resolved. If you're going through a phase in which you can't seem to handle complaints in a satisfactory way, you may be skipping one or two fundamental steps in the problem-solving process. Take [...]

11 09, 2019

Protecting Your Hands

By |2019-05-08T09:50:23-07:00September 11th, 2019|Categories: Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Protecting Your Hands

Working in horticulture is hard on our hands. Thorns, sticky plant residue and coarse soils are just some of the conditions that can lead to dry, scarred hands, ragged nails and even skin irritation. Protect your hands with a wide variety of garden gloves made from durable materials including nylon, lycra spandex, polypropylene and other fabrics [...]

9 09, 2019

Salvaging Squashed Stems

By |2019-05-08T09:33:07-07:00September 9th, 2019|Categories: Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Salvaging Squashed Stems

It's so upsetting to walk up to a plant that you haven't seen for a week and see a broken, dangling branch, or a smashed in area of a plant. Ohhh, the poor thing! It's gotta hurt! This type of damage ruins the looks of the entire planter and may even endanger the plant's life. How's it [...]

6 09, 2019

Fig Trees: Care & Types

By |2019-05-23T12:56:19-07:00September 6th, 2019|Categories: Plant Knowledge|Tags: |Comments Off on Fig Trees: Care & Types

The word Ficus is Latin for "fig", which is appropriate for these fig bearing fruit trees. There are over 900 species of Ficus (in the form of trees, shrubs, and vines) but the most common to the interiorscpaing world are F. lyrata (fiddle-leaf), F. benjamina, and F. amstel. Light These trees prefer medium to bright light [...]

4 09, 2019

Spotlighting… Aeschynanthus

By |2019-05-08T09:18:15-07:00September 4th, 2019|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Spotlighting… Aeschynanthus

Belonging to the Gesneriaceae family, Aeschynanthus (also called the Lipstick plant) have brightly colored flowers, which differ from most other flowers in that the petals are joined at their base to form a tubular corolla. So many to enjoy There are more than 100 species of the genus Aeschynanthus and they are all long-stemmed trailers with [...]

2 09, 2019

Mildew and the Interior Plant

By |2019-05-08T08:56:19-07:00September 2nd, 2019|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Mildew and the Interior Plant

One day, when watering your favorite grape ivy you may discover something new. A white, floury deposit is suddenly covering the new growth. Before you run screaming that the account is infested with anthrax, stop and read this to learn about mildew. Welcome to fall with its cooler outdoor temperatures, shorter daylight and drier, hotter, stagnant [...]

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