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We’ve all seen them on the shelves recently in their magnificent, brightly colored flower display! A gorgeous long leaved plant with a pillar of color brightly shining and growing from the middle of its leaves!
But after they bloom, what happens? Here, you’ll learn about how to care for your Bromeliads so that you can continue to enjoy more blooms for years to come!
…We all love to treat our plants and offer the best possible growing conditions. Many of us use humidifiers in our homes. Others use oil diffusers. How do you give your plants extra care? Do you mist your plants? Clean or shine the leaves? Feed them fish emulsion? Let us show you how oil diffusers benefit the houseplants and family!
With the Coronavirus keeping us stuck at home, many of us feel lost. There are so many restrictions in place that affect how and where we travel, how we enjoy family entertainment, going to restaurants, and more!
…It has been expressed that cleanliness is next to godliness, and that premise applies to your houseplants as well. I believe a clean houseplant is a healthy, disease-free addition to your home. I have an acquaintance who collects assorted houseplants, which is all well, and good, however. When you enter her home, you are readily greeted by the accumulation of dust which has formed on her impoverished plants. Some had even developed dreaded cobwebs attached to them, a clear indication of spider mites. As an avid plant lover, I find this totally unacceptable. My words to my friend was clean your plants up. Immediately, she turned towards me, shook her head sideways, and announced, “Why, since plants grow normally in soil should I clean them.”
…So, you posted a picture of your Christmas Cactus in our Facebook group, Houseplant Addicts, and were told that it is, in fact, not a Christmas Cactus but a Thanksgiving Cactus, and now you're confused. I'm here to help! Holiday cacti are Schlumbergera hybrids, and are often confused for each other; except the Easter Cactus, but we will get to that later. They are epiphytic tropical cacti. The differences are all in the shape of the leaves, and the care is pretty much the same across the board. Let's break it down.
Schlumbergera truncata-Thanksgiving Cactus
Have you received a new plant lately and it had a label but you're unsure if it's correct or not? Have no fear, Houseplant Addicts is here to help! In this article we will help you with identifying your Pothos. We will include a picture example and character traits of your basic plant. We will also include certain identifying characteristics that'll help you to identify plants while you're out looking for your next beauty to bring home! Also be on the lookout for more identification editions!
…Welcome to the Houseplant Addicts Dictionary! As a plant addict, we are all familiar with terms and phrases used in our house plant community! But what about the terms we are unsure of? What if we’re new to plants? We hope our dictionary will benefit all that utilize it!
Have you ever heard someone talking about ‘propagation’ or properly ‘amending’ soil? How about reading phrases such as ‘FLF’ or ‘NOID’? Do you understand or know what these common terms or phrases mean? We decided that it is time to create a reference or a ‘dictionary’ of all the common terms and phrases (slang included) of common lingo used amongst houseplant enthusiasts from all over the world.
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