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 [...]
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. [...]
