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Low Maintenance Plants To Add To Your Workspace

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It’s no secret! Here at Houseplant Addicts, we love plants! We love connecting with our members, fans, and followers! We also love our readers! Being stuck at home, many are working from home. Parents are now teaching or guiding their kids through distance learning. We share low maintenance plants to add to your workspace! 

Low Maintenance Plants To Add To Your Workspace
Houseplant Addicts Disclosure

I was a stay at home mom and blogger before Coronavirus hit. We’ve had to adapt to schools being closed, learning at home, distance learning, and juggling our schedule! Our dining table and kitchen counter has turned into our school desk, work desk, and office storage area! 

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Bringing Houseplants Back Inside

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We give our plants the best care we know how and sometimes that means spending the summer outdoors! Anyone else starting to feel a little panic about bringing our gorgeous houseplants back inside?

Bringing Houseplants back inside
Team member Jessica’s gorgeous collection

We hope you’ll feel confident about the pros and cons of your houseplants spending the summer outside, and what steps need to be taken to bring your plants back indoors!

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Picking the Perfect Water

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So, you’ve purchased your first plant (perhaps a bromeliad, pothos or calathea), potted it potted it and found the perfect spot in your house, but how are you going to water it?  There are pros and cons to all your watering options, let’s dive into a few!

Tap Water

Generally the easiest, most available, and lowest cost option to plant owners is to use tap water.  While what comes out of your faucet can vary greatly area to area. Tap water can have a favorable PH with only minor contamination. In areas where contamination is higher, running the water through a filter may help, although it won’t capture fluorine, chlorine and some heavy metals and minerals. Salt or mineral build up can also occur from water that is too hard or soft. Build up in your soil can be mitigated by flushing occasionally with distilled water. 

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The Mosaic Virus And What To Do

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Most of us in the houseplant world heard rumblings about the Mosaic Virus. What is it? How do we deal with it?

What is the Mosaic Virus?

The Mosaic Virus is a virus that attacks plants at a molecular level.  The virus involves tiny organisms entering the plant’s system, taking protein from the plants cells to grow and spread throughout the plant.  There are three main types of the Mosaic Virus.  Cucumber Mosaic Virus (CMV) and Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) mainly affect nightshade plants and Cruciferous vegetables.  Dasheen Mosaic Virus (DMV) mainly affects plants in the Aroid family like Peace lilies, Philodendrons, and Monsteras.  The virus creates abnormalities in the appearance in the texture and color of the plant’s leaves and will stunt its growth.

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Overcoming Problem-Plant Guilt

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A problem-plant lemon lime dracaena

Sometimes our “new” plants aren’t in the best condition. Whether it be shipping issues, gifts from people who don’t know better, or sometimes we decide to rescue and try to resuscitate plants that have definitely seen better days, at some point or another every houseplant addict is faced with a plant in rough condition. A problem-plant, if you will.

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