We all have our problems when it comes to plant care indoors, hut in future when your rubber plant decides to shed a leaf.
Sometimes a plant is required for a special display point, a corner of a hall or living room which demands one dominant feature.
Some of the majestic screw pines have beautiful saw-edged yellow leaves and may attain a height of 8 to 12 ft. when roots are confined to a plant pot, or large tub. Tightly overlapping leaves radiate in all directions and may give the really super plant a diameter in the region of 12 ft. Tight, warm conditions are needed and, because of the saw-edged leaves, a position away from the general stream of humanity that may be passing. Alas, plants are in acutely short supply and take many, many years to .reach maturity, so it may be a little unfair.
Trained to wires suspended from the ceiling of the garden room they will be quite effective and are very easy to care for. Once established, vines will make rapid growth and will require periodic trimming back during the growing season. In winter they should be cut back to two eyes from the main stem.
Almost all of them are purely green foliage plants, so are ideally suitable for the lighter order, but with a possible bias towards my own favourites, the following are suggested for that very special position where ample space is available to show the plant off to best advantage, not forgetting headroom.
One rather ferocious parrot had a habit of pecking through the sterns of some of the more mature plants, and seemed to have a particular partiality for Aralia elegantissima. So much so that the contract man in charge of maintenance stood there one day and watched as the tall stem of one of these plants toppled and fell to the floor, Polly having performed a very creditable bit of tree felling.
Sometimes a plant is required for a special display point, a corner of a hall or living room which demands one dominant feature.
Some of the majestic screw pines have beautiful saw-edged yellow leaves and may attain a height of 8 to 12 ft. when roots are confined to a plant pot, or large tub. Tightly overlapping leaves radiate in all directions and may give the really super plant a diameter in the region of 12 ft. Tight, warm conditions are needed and, because of the saw-edged leaves, a position away from the general stream of humanity that may be passing. Alas, plants are in acutely short supply and take many, many years to .reach maturity, so it may be a little unfair.
Trained to wires suspended from the ceiling of the garden room they will be quite effective and are very easy to care for. Once established, vines will make rapid growth and will require periodic trimming back during the growing season. In winter they should be cut back to two eyes from the main stem.
Almost all of them are purely green foliage plants, so are ideally suitable for the lighter order, but with a possible bias towards my own favourites, the following are suggested for that very special position where ample space is available to show the plant off to best advantage, not forgetting headroom.
One rather ferocious parrot had a habit of pecking through the sterns of some of the more mature plants, and seemed to have a particular partiality for Aralia elegantissima. So much so that the contract man in charge of maintenance stood there one day and watched as the tall stem of one of these plants toppled and fell to the floor, Polly having performed a very creditable bit of tree felling.
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Tolerating a wide range of conditions, Monstera pertusa borsigiana is an excellent specimen indoor garden houseplant with its huge, deeply serrated leaves.
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