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Plant Technician Skills – Page 6 – Tropical Plant Technician

Plant Technician Skills

26 03, 2021

Plant Spotlight – Clivia miniata

By |2021-06-12T08:54:10-07:00March 26th, 2021|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Pests, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Plant Spotlight – Clivia miniata

Beautiful Clivia miniata Clivia miniata is a wonderfully hardy, long-living herbaceous plant with an exceptional bloom display at the end of winter. Clivia is a member of the amaryllis family and is named after Charlotte Clive, Duchess of Northumberland, who developed it as an indoor plant in 1866. Clivias have thick, straplike leaves and large [...]

19 03, 2021

How to Keep Plants Clean

By |2021-06-12T08:52:09-07:00March 19th, 2021|Categories: Budget & Revenue, Plant Knowledge, Plant Pests, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on How to Keep Plants Clean

Clean plants are healthy plants Does everything seem especially dusty to you right now? Maybe the sun is shining into your accounts more now with the bright summer days and you can see the dust better. No matter the cause, plants can become dirty very quickly and it's important to their health to keep [...]

12 03, 2021

Customer Service Tips from the Experts

By |2021-06-12T08:45:29-07:00March 12th, 2021|Categories: Budget & Revenue, Customer Service, Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Customer Service Tips from the Experts

Keep Bamboo palms looking their best More customers are being added everyday to your service department and to keep both your old and new customers happy, you must continue to focus on the quality of your service. Quality means accepting nothing less than the best performance from yourself and from others in your company. [...]

5 03, 2021

Moisture Meter Benefits

By |2021-06-12T08:21:19-07:00March 5th, 2021|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills, Sample Articles|Tags: |Comments Off on Moisture Meter Benefits

Moisture meters take the guesswork out of watering A moisture meter is a simple tool that can be useful for interiorscape technicians. It's a helpful way to check the soil moisture level and gives us an extra edge in providing quality of care for interior plants. A meter is easy to use; all you [...]

26 02, 2021

Why Sunlight Matters for Plants

By |2021-06-12T08:07:54-07:00February 26th, 2021|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Why Sunlight Matters for Plants

Are your plants getting enough sunlight? Waiting for spring through gray and dreary days of winter can be hard on plants. Many plants adore sunlight, while others need just the right amount to thrive. Many interior plants may not be getting the optimal light they need. As they grow, they reach toward that desk [...]

19 02, 2021

Plant Pests & Control Methods

By |2021-06-12T08:57:02-07:00February 19th, 2021|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Pests, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Plant Pests & Control Methods

Control pest infestations for healthier plants As an interior plant technician, it's important to carefully check over each plant with every visit to inspect it for possible pest outbreaks. Diagnosing a pest population on a plant before it requires replacement or a Special Services spray is critical to your work. There are several steps [...]

5 02, 2021

The Importance of Plant Inventories

By |2021-06-12T08:20:22-07:00February 5th, 2021|Categories: Budget & Revenue, Customer Service, Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on The Importance of Plant Inventories

Plant inventories will keep you organized Written plant inventories provide important information for the many people involved in the servicing and monitoring of interiorscape accounts. They tell us the total number of plants to service and their locations, what sizes of plants and containers were originally installed, who the contact person is, how long [...]

29 01, 2021

What’s your Customer Service Score?

By |2021-06-12T08:19:45-07:00January 29th, 2021|Categories: Customer Service, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on What’s your Customer Service Score?

Show customers you appreciate their business Take the following True/False Quiz and find out how adept you are at providing outstanding customer service. Placing yourself in your client’s shoes and thinking about how you would like to be treated will guide you to the correct answers! Answer the following TRUE or FALSE questions to [...]

22 01, 2021

Plant Care Checklist

By |2021-06-12T08:19:40-07:00January 22nd, 2021|Categories: Customer Service, Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Plant Care Checklist

It's all in the details Good interiorscape service requires us to pay close attention to the cosmetics of each plant, in each account, with every visit. We may love to know about the physiology of the plants (and indeed that will help us do our job better) or what kind of insects they have, [...]

15 01, 2021

Plant Spotlight – Aglaonema

By |2021-06-12T08:18:46-07:00January 15th, 2021|Categories: Plant Knowledge, Plant Technician Skills|Comments Off on Plant Spotlight – Aglaonema

Silver Bay Aglaonema Aglaonemas are one of the most frequently used plants in interiorscapes. They are used as tabletop plants, stand-alone floor plants and as groundcovers in beds. They mix well with seasonal flowers and they survive in terribly low light. They endure chronic over- and under-watering. It’s hard to envision an interiorscape without [...]

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