Category: Favorite House Plants

The Dracaena plant is used throughout the interior landscape industry and they make great house plant, too. My favorite is the Dracaena marginata.

If you have a climbing or vining indoor plant, you may want to give them some support. Here is a beautiful way to give your indoor plants a place to climb or vine. Nature inspired climbing house plant support.

Natural Leaf Trellis House Plant Support

Instead of the usual stick pyramid or bark pole, consider using this leaf shaped trellis for your climbing and vining house plants.

Inspired by the leaf of the Monstera plant, this unusual plant support is visually pleasing while still being utilitarian. Provide your Philodendron plant, Pothos plant, or other climbing house plant a place to grow.

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See this Monstera leaf indoor plant trellis plant support.

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Ficus Tree Care

October 16, 2021

Laura G.

Fickle Ficus Losing Leaves…Help!

Ficus trees are great house plants and very easy to care for after the initial trauma of being moved to a new location. They have a tendency to drop all of their pretty green leaves on the floor when you first bring them home as they seem to despise moving to a new environment. This is the Ficus benjamina or Weeping Fig.

Ficus Benjamina Interior Plant Weeping Fig — Ficus Benjamina Interior Plant – Weeping Fig Tree

This type of Ficus tree is notorious for being difficult to acclimate to a new environment. In fact, I would have included it on the list of best house plants if it were not for the problems many people have bringing a Ficus tree successfully through its transition to a new home.

Even those that work in the interior landscape business know the trouble that a new Ficus tree can be. However, on the positive side, if you know that it will most likely happen (some Ficus trees barely lose a leaf), you may be a little more prepared to deal with it when it does happen.

I find that most indoor plants are very adaptable as long as changes are made slowly, whether it is a change in location, lighting, or watering. This even applies to the Ficus tree. Ficus trees are often difficult to acclimate because they are quite sensitive to environmental changes and will often react by dropping most of their still green leaves quite suddenly.

Gift Plants and Flowers

October 15, 2021

Laura G.

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If you are looking for a gift for someone you know that has a passion for plants, indoor plants and flowering plants make great gifts. A great way to say happy birthday, happy anniversary, get well soon, or just thinking of you, live indoor plants and flowers are a fantastic choice as a gift for any occasion.

Gift Plants and Flowering Plants – Peace Lily Plant

So, if you need a gift for the Plant Person in your life, I have put together some of my favorites from an affiliate and put them together on my website. These are green gifts that can be delivered for you. Any person that you know who enjoys indoor plants would love one of these!

I receive a small commission for any completed sale and that is how I keep my site running! Thanks for visiting the website. Find some great plants and flowering plants to send as a gift…

Best Indoor Fern

October 13, 2021

Laura G.

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This post is about Asplenium nidus, or Birds Nest Fern. There are a few types of Birds Nest Ferns, the two most common being the Japanese and Victoria Birds Nest Fern. The Victoria has thinner, more ruffled fronds than the Japanese. As far as ferns go, this is one of my favorites, along with Button Ferns and Pteris fern.

Birds Nest Fern Houseplant — Asplenium Nidus – Birds Nest Fern

One of the easiest ferns to care for as a house plant is the Birds Nest Fern or Asplenium Nidus. It is more likely to let you get away with a few mistakes than many other ferns. An added attraction is the leaflets that often fall from other ferns, creating quite a mess, are not present on Birds Nest Fern. This makes it a clean fern in my book, unlike the messy Boston Fern. With a Boston Fern, you may end up spend more time cleaning up after it than you do taking care of it! Not so the Birds Nest Fern.

Light green fronds surround a fibrous nest, explaining the name Birds Nest Fern. The fronds are long and blade shaped with a dark midrib. Birds Nest Ferns can grow quite large and the plant pictured here was well over 3 feet tall!

A Favorite House Plant

October 12, 2021

Laura G.

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Indoor house plants need more attention than your typical outdoor plants. House plants and flowers have only you to provide them with proper water and light to promote healthy plant growth. House plant care, a place for sharing ideas with Plant Lovers to help you and your plants grow.

Dracaena Marginata Houseplant — Dracaena Marginata House Plant One of My Favorites

Dracaena Marginata is one of my favorite house plants. That might be because it is one of the first large indoor plants that I ever owned. I was caring for indoor plants at the huge Xerox Research Center in Palo Alto, California. A 6 foot tall Dracaena Marginata in lower light that was getting a little leggy and it was decided with my contact person, Gary, that it would be replaced with a brand new plant.

He did not want to keep the old Marginata plant and told me that if I wanted it, I should take it home. That is exactly what I did! Planted in a fairly large terra cotta clay pot, the Marginata did quite well at my house. It was placed next to a large sliding glass door in bright, indirect light. Ever since that time, Marginata has been one of my favorite house plants.

Dracaena Marginata plants are really easy to care for once you know how. And they are very beautiful and graceful plants when they are grown in the home. You can let them grow large or easily keep them at the size you want them by pruning back the stalks or “canes” every once in a while.

Beautiful Trellis Support for Climbing Plants

Ficus Tree Care

Fickle Ficus Losing Leaves…Help!

Gift Plants and Flowers

Best Indoor Fern

A Favorite House Plant

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