Plants improve the quality of a workplace You are riding in an elevator and the person riding up with you looks over and sees your water bucket. Inquisitively they ask, "Why do we even need a plant service in this building? Anybody can water plants, besides what’s wrong with fake plants?" Those are some [...]
Kalanchoe blooms create stunning displays of color Profuse blooms and explosions of color are elements of lovely flowering arrangements. These beautiful displays don’t just magically happen. First, they must be designed for the site and planted properly. Then your real work begins, the expert weekly care necessary to bring out their colors to the [...]
Caring for plants in shopping malls requires extra attention to details Shopping malls are some of the trickiest interiorscape jobs to keep looking great. That's because more time must be allotted to keeping the plants clean than on any other job outside of restaurants. It's important to structure your time to give more to [...]
Care for your customers as you would your favorite plants Some days the difficulties of being in a customer service profession like interiorscaping can be overwhelming. There are days when it feels like each customer has too many plant problems and they want them all solved NOW. We’ve all had days like this. The [...]
Water your plants proactively in the summer months Even though your interiorscape plants are indoors they can tell a change is taking place in the spring and they seem to wake-up as summer rolls around. Seasons change and so must the care we give to our plants. Beginning in late spring you may notice [...]
Air plants are epiphytes If you’re like me, you can’t resist these amazingly varied plants in the genus Tillandsia, commonly called air plants. Some have unusual leaves, while others look like grasses. Many exhibit interesting textures, spiral patterns, unusual twists, or pleasing symmetries. Many air plants have small purple flowers, but some have red, [...]
Cascading plants are easy to prune Has that formerly gorgeous goldfish gotten gargantuan? Is your cordatum crawling into the corridor? Is that Hoya not so bella any more? All vining plants in your care—whether newly installed or in accounts for years—need regular grooming to stay in shape, or get back in shape. If you [...]
Monstera deliciosa is another plant prone to thrips In caretaking indoor plants, it's not unusual to go for months without ever seeing thrips. This pest tends to run in batches. When you discover thrips on one plant in an account the pest will very likely be on many plants throughout the account. But most [...]
Flying insects can harm your plants Having trouble getting flying pests such as fungus gnats under control? Try controlling them with traps coated with sticky materials. Commercially made sticky traps are pieces of colored cardboard or plastic coated with polybutene-naptha inert rubber polymer. Wow! Long description for such a simple solution! Flying insects are [...]
Dracaena Warneckii has fragile leaves You can always tell a novice plant technician by the way they handle plants. “Oops, sorry! I guess those were some leaves I heard crunching when I grabbed the plant by its sleeve.” “Oops, would you look at that! I guess it isn’t rooted well enough to carry it [...]
