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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

5 House Plants For The Starting Indoor Gardener by Keith Markensen


Adding houseplants to your indoor decorating can add life to your home. Tropical indoor houseplants are used as often as furniture in the home. Some people decide to buy fake, plastic plants for their home, but it is often obvious. They collect dust and can look tacky.

The real thing will be much better. Indoor gardening can be fulfilling and natural plants even cleanse the air, adding oxygen and reducing carbon dioxide.

If you are unfamiliar with indoor gardening, the information below will be useful in showing you how you can have success in this form of planting. It is not very complicated.

Lighting

How will the plants get the sunlight that they need? You need to consider how much light is available in different parts of your home where you'll want flowers, and choose the plants to go in those areas accordingly. If a room is dark additional lighting can be added.

The following house plants will handle medium to low amounts of light, and are therefore known to work well for indoor gardening:

* Cast Iron Plant - Aspidistra elatior

* Cereus Cactus - Cereus peruvianus

* Pothos - Epipremnum aureum

* Snake Plant - Sansevieria trifasciata

* ZZ Plant - Zamioculcas zamiifolia

Watering

You should make sure to avoid the common mistake of over-watering your indoor house plants. Over-watering can damage the roots. Each kind of plant needs different amounts of water to be as healthy as possible, so be sure to research the needs of each type of plant you are going to have in your home.

Potting

Since there is no soil on the floor of your home, your indoor house plants will need to use pots and containers. If the pot is dirty before you place your new plant in it, it will be more susceptible to disease. Make sure to fully clean I first so the plant has the best chance of remaining healthy as it grows.

Humidity

Since humidity adds moisture to the air, it is a major issue in indoor gardening. The humidity effects the growth of the plants. If the air is dry, you should spray the plants with water so they receive the moisture that they need.

Fertilization

You'll need to research the specific type of plants that you will use to know whether or not they need constant fertilization. If the plant is receiving the proper amount of water, light, and humidity, fertilization may not be too important.

Hopefully these tips will help you cultivate indoor plants. Adding actual life to your home, rather than plastic plants, is fulfilling and with a little care is not very difficult.

Learn How To Create Your Dream Garden

Learn how to create your dream garden by Nate Moss


IF you long to have a beautiful garden, whether that means flowers or vegetables to you... if you want to see the astounded looks on the faces of your friends, and the sidelong envious glances of your neighbors... this letter should be of real interest to you. Here's why:

Anyone can grow a beautiful garden!

Even if you've tried and failed, you can have a thriving garden. It doesn't matter if you've never gardened before. You don't need to spend a fortune - you can start inexpensively. Whether you have a tiny window-box or acres of opportunity... And even if you don't have a single gardening tool, it's simple and inexpensive to get started.

Keep reading to find out how you too can get started on the road to being a "master gardener"... f you've never gardened before, you might worry that it's difficult.

And if you've ever tried a little gardening and perhaps had trouble with it, you might feel that it's not as easy as I'm letting on.

I assure you that if you follow a few basics, it is quite easy.

Anyone can do it.

You just need the right information and a wee bit of patience. Don't let yourself be worried by the questions that plague so many beginning gardeners: How do I start a garden? What do I need to have in order to grow a garden?

Are there any tricks of the trade I should know? Is it costly? How do I maintain my garden once I get it started? Will it take all of my time?

Because so many people have questions like these, I've created my simple "Gardener's Handbook".

With this easy gardening guide, you will discover the answers to these questions and to many more before you know it, you will be out there putting your green thumb to work! If you're just starting out - or if you're trying to improve your existing garden...So if this is what you would like to do click the link on the bottom to see more information,on how to obtain this valuable information. Click Here

Annual Flowers

Annuals Flower by Primoz


PLANTS classed as annuals are those which complete their life cycle within the space of one year and in this group we find some of our most useful garden flowers. We also commonly place in this class a few flowers such as the snapdragons (antirrhinum) and the ageraturns which are not true annuals but which are best handled as such.

The annuals have many uses. They are indispensable in the cutting garden, giving a wealth of bloom throughout the summer and early autumn months; they are of value in the herbaceous border, coming into flower after the first riot of spring bloom has passed, and carrying gallantly on through the heat of midsummer when many of the perennials are quiescent; and if a garden is to be but a temporary affair, to be enjoyed for the space of but a single season, the annuals may be used as the only material in the planting scheme. For window boxes and porch boxes, for potted plants on the terrace or on the low coping of a wall, for the indoor window garden, and for winter bloom in the small greenhouse the annuals can hardly be equaled.