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18 03, 2018

Fun Orchid Facts

By |2019-10-14T11:53:24-07:00March 18th, 2018|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Fun Orchid Facts

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 [...]

14 03, 2018

The Best Way to Handle Disagreements

By |2019-10-14T12:01:25-07:00March 14th, 2018|Categories: Plant Knowledge|Comments Off on The Best Way to Handle Disagreements

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 [...]

14 03, 2018

4 Simple Spring Cleaning Tips

By |2018-05-10T09:12:49-07:00March 14th, 2018|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on 4 Simple Spring Cleaning Tips

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 [...]

12 03, 2018

Spring Weather & Pest Infestations

By |2019-04-29T12:22:30-07:00March 12th, 2018|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Pests, Plant Technician Skills, Sample Articles|Tags: |Comments Off on Spring Weather & Pest Infestations

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 [...]

7 03, 2018

Plant Spotlight – Dracaenas

By |2018-08-03T15:33:09-07:00March 7th, 2018|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Plant Spotlight – Dracaenas

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 [...]

5 03, 2018

The Importance of Client Appreciation

By |2018-05-10T09:15:23-07:00March 5th, 2018|Categories: Customer Service, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on The Importance of Client Appreciation

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 [...]

28 02, 2018

Amazing Orchid Facts

By |2018-08-03T17:29:14-07:00February 28th, 2018|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Amazing Orchid Facts

Beautiful Cymbidium Orchids It was not so long ago that orchids were scarcely found as interiorscape plants because they were considered too rare, expensive and difficult to care for. Now orchids are available and affordable no matter what the season! Orchids are everywhere and easy to care for when you learn how to. As [...]

22 11, 2017

How to Care for Adonidia Palms 

By |2018-08-03T18:40:21-07:00November 22nd, 2017|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on How to Care for Adonidia Palms 

Adonidia Palm Veitchia merrillii (formerly Adonidia) is native to the Philippines where it grows to about 25-feet-tall with eight-foot fronds on a glossy green crown-shaft, and a light brown trunk below. Each frond is stiff, emerging pointing skyward, and opening in a dusty, lime-green color. They become dark green with age in lower light. [...]

1 08, 2016

Pest Lifestyles: Piercing and Sucking Bug

By |2017-01-09T09:47:40-08:00August 1st, 2016|Categories: Plant Knowledge|Comments Off on Pest Lifestyles: Piercing and Sucking Bug

Pest Lifestyles: Piercing and Sucking Bug  The insect damage most frequently found on interiorscape plants comes from piercing and sucking pests. To understand why these pesky critters find our plants to be so attractive, let’s examine the environment they thrive in and what they look for when they’re hungry. Sap Suckers Aphids, scale, mealybug, whitefly and [...]

4 12, 2012

Caring for Plants in Restaurants

By |2020-03-25T22:46:27-07:00December 4th, 2012|Categories: Customer Service, Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Caring for Plants in Restaurants

Restaurant plants need extra attention and care Interior plant technicians from around the country say that their toughest accounts to care for are their restaurant accounts. Why is this? Let’s explore these accounts and see what makes them difficult and what you can do to help make them your favorite accounts. Restaurants...what makes them [...]

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