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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Pestidde residue, the sticky mess from honeydew and sooty moki, and dust build-up are tough cleaning jobs requiring more than a soap and water wash.
A Fountain of Youth for Plants When Hurricane Andrew hit the Dade County area of Rorida, August, 1992, it wiped out acres of tropical plants. by Teena Risley Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis [...]
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 [...]
Kicking the Bugs Out - Interior Plant Pest Solutions When designing a pest control strategy for insects and mites, consider cultural, mechanical, biological and least toxic chemical alternatives. When you blend these methods to control and eradicate pests, you are practicing Integrated Pest Management (IPM). TREATMENT STRATEGIES Cultural Reduce plant stress by changing a cultural practice [...]
