The Aspidistra (aspidistra elatior) is a very obliging plant, being famous for its capacity to withstand a wide range of conditions – hence its common name: Cast iron plant. It is an evergreen plant, related to the asparagus, and can grow up to a metre high in ideal conditions. It has long, dark green glossy […]
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All the companies with a water-soluble fertiliser product promote the use of foliar fertiliser spray on house plants. This involves spraying the leaves of the plant with their water-soluble fertiliser products. The idea for this goes back to the 1950s and a piece of scientific research which suggested that some plants can take up minerals
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Picture this – you are standing in the middle of your favourite garden centre and there are three plants on display which all look very similar. On closer inspection you can see they all have splits but are different in other ways. The problem is they all have the same plant tag that says Dragon
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Once you’ve been nurturing houseplants in your houseplant jungle for some time, you will realise that some plants just do so much better than others. I have been thinking long and hard about this as well as watching, observing and questioning plant retailers: why do some plants do so much better than others once I
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Philodendron Birkin has a really interesting background. It is the mutant offspring of Philodendron Rojo Congo, which itself was developed in Florida, USA in 1996 from a cross between Philodendron Imperial Red (mother) and Philodendron Tatei (father). The idea of producing P’ Rojo Congo was to achieve a new and distinctive plant with the following
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