I was just reading back through the thread, and I had to laugh at the comment to use silk plants. Silk plants, also, can die. When the glue...
Yep, that's new growth all right. YEA! All that discoloration is one of the reasons I said earlier that they're difficult plants. They look to...
The people you are talking about who "used to" lease plants to businesses are called interior landscapers, and it is very much a thriving...
Yep, new growth all right. YEAH!. What you've been seeing with it, the spotting and yellowing, is what I meant earlier about it not being an...
It looks like it might be a Hedera helix - English ivy; do you know? If it is, and if you let it get too dry at some point, what could have...
From the picture, that is almost certainly a type of scale, you would have to take the affected parts to a lab or extension service to identify...
Sticky leaves are almost always a sign of scale, or less often, aphids. These little buggers can be very tiny, and they like to attach themselves...
Jerry, that was great. I love to see biological processes of plants explained in such a way that people can relate and understand plants as...
Looks like you did some serious Thanksgiving baking, there on the table behind your plant. I can almost smell it all...m-m-m-m. About your...
CritterPainter, that's an excellent link for purple plants. Glenndan, wandering jew and moses in a boat are 2 different plants. Fish... You need...
I think I would. I would just let it gather up as much energy with its 2 leaves as it can. The bulb was probably pretty much depleted when you...
One of the greatest things about plants. Chop off their heads, they just grow even more. Maybe the origin of mythological monster stories. Off...
SS, I see that you live in Lithuania. I wonder if you have different plants available there than we have here. Why don't you go wherever...
Ronni, Congrats on that orchid, I wasn't holding much hope for it from your description of its initial condition. Maybe I can add a bit to your...
I'll just throw in a couple more things. Dieff's are known as "low light" plants. In the wild they would probably be found in the understory....
You can also do what I do - move the plant that's being munched to the porch, and try something else to see if The Kat wants to eat it. There...
If you have a plant that's root bound and won't come out of the pot, you can run a long knife around the inside of the pot to loosen the roots....
Barb You sound like you've done this sort of thing before, so I'm curious why you would want to put the keiki into wet sphagnum? I know that's...
When I first moved to Fla, it just bowled me over that all the foliage plants we used up north in houses and offices and so on were growing right...
I't not hard to kill any plant if you never water it or water it too much. I'm going to vote in order of difficulty-to-kill. Hardest to kill...
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