Description : I am getting a couple of plant stands for my new place and would love a few hanging ferns to go with them. Suggestions?
Last Answer : I’ve always liked Boston or Asparagus Ferns. English Ivy is hard to kill it’s so easy to care for. Just cut it back once in a while. I also like Peperomia. It’s not ivy or fern but it’s very easy to grow and looks good with the others. I’ll have to check the spelling on that.
Description : I am looking for an indoor (live) floor plant. What do you suggest?
Last Answer : Amount of sunlight, exposure, artificial lighting, benign neglect or TLC, flowering or non-flowering, and your location. Plants are odd; sometimes they grow more than you want. So you prune. (Do you have animals?).
Description : What is that narrow thin indoor bamboo like plant?
Last Answer : Might it be Lucky Bamboo?
Description : Could you recommend a good indoor plant that I could put in my bedroom? I'm thinking more like a small tree.
Last Answer : Get a bunsai tree!
Description : I am going away for two months. Any suggestions for keeping a plant alive?
Last Answer : If you can’t have someone come to the plant, can you board the orchid with a reliable acquaintance or plant handler?
Description : My Pops got me a rose plant in a clay pot for my birthday. Any tips on keeping it alive?
Last Answer : Sorry, the link isn’t working. I have discovered that it is a miniature rose plant (surprise, surprise!).
Description : Can I grow a Christmas tree in a big plant pot?
Last Answer : If it’s a Norfolk pine it might.A friend had hers in a large pot for a few years.
Description : Bringing in a hanging basket indoors, would it work?
Last Answer : Was it in full sun at your dad’s? I don’t see why you can’t do that. I would try to mimic the growing conditions in your home…..just short of cutting a hole in your roof. :)
Description : I have a hanging planter with no drainage hole, anything that I can do?
Last Answer : Put a layer of small stones on the bottom for drainage before putting the potting soil in and be careful not to overwater.
Description : I inherited a small indoor palm tree from a family member. Most of the ends are brown and crispy. What can I do to nurse it back to health?
Last Answer : Just trim off the dead end of the leaves. And I’d try to place it in a high light high humidity area. (Maybe a bathroom?)
Description : Yucky Indoor Houseplant?
Last Answer : spider plants, they produce oxygen and generally need very little care, my mother can even manage them…
Description : Cats and House Plants: How to keep furry feline from eating indoor plants?
Last Answer : I've often heard pets eat houseplants, or outdoor plants for that matter, to fulfill a dietary need/deficiency. Perhaps you could somehow restrict the plan making her sick and replace it with another. My animals ... to chew on. I don't try to stop them since it keeps them from the other houseplants.
Description : How to care for an indoor, potted Japanese Maple Tree?
Last Answer : answer:Can you give me more detailed information, so I can better understand what you are asking? September 1, 2008, 7:39 PM EDT
Description : How to Take Care of Indoor Plants
Last Answer : How to Take Care of Indoor Plants Indoor plants are a lovely way to liven and warm up a room. Plants also produce oxygen, which will provide cleaner air indoors! Here's how to keep indoor plants ... take it. Some plants like African Violets do not like their leaves getting wet and may cause damage.
Description : What are the most unpretentious indoor plants?
Last Answer : What are the most unpretentious indoor plants? Many young women would like to keep magnificent indoor plants at home, but due to fear and sometimes inability to care for them, many simply abandon ... can have a beautiful flower at home that will delight both households and guests all year round.
Description : How and when can pot planted calla lilies be transplanted to the outdoors?
Last Answer : Calla lilies aren’t winter hardy in anything colder than zone 8. They need to be dug up before winter so she should wait till spring to plant it outside. Just have her give it a rest after it flowers. Lightly water and no food during winter.
Description : Planter or decorative pot? Both?
Last Answer : I think plants prefer wide mouth pots. However, some long stem silk plants would look beautiful.
Description : Will hostas thrive in a big pot?
Last Answer : They should do well there. They like the shade, plus being on a patio the slugs should leave them alone.
Description : Can I put tomato plants and pepper plants in the same pot?
Last Answer : I can’t see why not. We do, at my house, in things called Earth Boxes.
Description : I need an outdoor flowering plant to cover a railing planter. Suggestions?
Last Answer : Phlox
Description : Potted climbing plant is dying - any suggestions?
Last Answer : answer:I'm not sure. If it is because of over-watering due to excessive rain, which seems logical as many plants will experience root rot under this condition, you would want to dry the soil out ... or even potting soil to get better drainage. This site says excessive water will lead to root rot.
Description : I'd love to put some flower boxes along my balcony (wooden railing). Any suggestions for flowers that would do well in partial sun?
Last Answer : Pansies do well just about anywhere, and begonias are healthy in partial shade—but depending on what area you live in and what the moisture and temperature of your region you could grow a lot more. If you’re looking for something cute and unusual I suggest celosia .
Description : Are hanging pot racks safe to use if there are children in the house?
Last Answer : Hanging pot racks are a time tested favorite for pot and pan storage. If installed propery, a hanging pot rack should pose no danger to children living in the house.
Description : How do I replant an indoor fern that has a thick root system that grows out and around the pot?
Last Answer : I would take this work to do outside in the shade.............carefully take it out of the pot. You might be able to seperate the new growth and make 2 pots. Does it have to be a hanging pot or ... always give it as a gift telling them which side of they home to put it in..........Happy summer.
Description : What soil mixture do I use to transplant an indoor Calla Lilly to an outdoor pot?
Last Answer : Need Answer
Description : What are some names of particularly 'thorny' bushes please... for a book I am completing The Tallest Dwarf?
Last Answer : answer:Is a “thorny’ bush different from a bush with thorns? Argentine Mesquite (2-inch thorns), Black Locust (1 to 2-inch thorns that cause skin swelling), Honey Locust (sharp red thorns). Cacti Wild roses Wild blackberries and raspberries Pyrocanthus (What’s a hot country?)
Description : Can I put plant vitamins "for seedlings" on adult plants?
Last Answer : They won’t do any harm, but it is not “just like regular plant food” because food/fertilizer for seedlings is less robust to keep from burning the seedlings.
Description : Will majoring in botany/plant science always be outdoors?
Last Answer : Most occupations in that field involve being outside. And despite your love of plants, you seem to be terrified of pollinators. You are a senior in high school, you don't have to make a ... and explore different things, you might find a field that fascinates you that you know nothing about.
Description : What is the name of this plant? (photos inside)
Last Answer : It looks like a type of wild radish and it fits the buggers growing conditions. Have you tried a type of Roundup product on it and it didn't work? That helps me work out what it is as well, ... . When it starts to creep up again catch it early with an application of Banvel or Weedmaster. Good luck.
Description : How do I save our spider plant from our rambunctious kitty?
Last Answer : Put toothpicks all around it. Maybe it will make your kitty uncomfortable and he’ll decide to leave it alone.
Description : What can you tell me about caring for a cyclamen plant indoors?
Last Answer : I don’t know cyclamens, but I’m guessing not. I’m pretty sure they like it really humid though.
Description : What would happen if I topped this tree-plant?
Last Answer : The tree would look like crap if you topped it. Plant it outside or sell it. Or get a great big pot to plant it in and leave it outside. But you’d be better off to replant it outside before it gets too big to transplant.
Description : Can you identify this plant?
Last Answer : answer:Isn’t this it? Yellowcress or Prostrate Spurge (Euphorbia maculata) I found it here, and this discusses it extensively.
Description : Why does grass send out runners across concrete when there is soil immediately adjacent to the plant?
Last Answer : My only guess is that it’s natures way of preventing root over crowding plus it’s easier to find patches of ground that haven’t been sapped of nutrients.
Description : Can you help with this sympathy plant delivery?
Last Answer : I have sent them to the funeral home. That or the bereaved’s house would work.
Description : What fragrant annuals should I plant in my window planter?
Last Answer : Did you mean to say “plant” or did you really mean “defend”?
Description : Why does my plant look like it's on the verge of death?
Last Answer : answer:Ornamental pepper plants are annuals that grow best in warm areas., so I would guess that your plant has borne fruit and lived it's life, or Ornamental pepper plants are susceptible to ... prevent the spread of disease. Do not replace the plant with another ornamental pepper. Same source.
Description : Can anyone suggest a plant to grow under Elephant Ears that doesn't mind having wet roots?
Last Answer : Hosta came to mind first, but snails love them and that sounds like prime snail habitat. Ferns might work.
Description : Will you help me cure my plant?
Last Answer : Easy, plants have been growing for a few years. What kind of plant? It sounds like powdery mildew. But that’s usually associated with higher humidity. The white stuff isn’t moving is it?
Description : If you could replace all of the grass in your lawn with some other plant, what plant would that be?
Last Answer : I love wild flower meadows.
Description : Where do I get this, "Say No to Death" plant?
Last Answer : answer:http://makeaterrarium.com/how-to-make-a-terrarium-in-a-bottle/ Here you go! I want to make one too. Haven’t gotten a round Tuit yet.
Description : Can anyone name this plant?
Last Answer : Looks like a hibiscus to me.
Description : What is this plant?
Last Answer : answer:I’m pretty sure that is a very unhappy ZZ plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia). If it is indeed a zz plant, it likes moderate/diffuse to low light, warm temperatures, and sparse watering.
Description : Would you buy a bioluminescent plant?
Last Answer : I do not think they could fully provide the same type of light that street lights do. It looks like they just kinda function like glowsticks. However, I would buy a bioluminescent plant to put in my house. In fact, I’d buy a bunch and set up a room so I’d feel like I’m in the avatar universe lol
Description : What kind of tomatoes should I plant for variety?
Last Answer : answer:Here’s the crib sheet that enables you to get your PhD in choosing suitable tomato plants. http://voices.yahoo.com/choosing-tomato-variety-garden-263606.html
Description : Ever known a plant collecter?
Last Answer : My husband is amazing with plants of all kinds, it drives me crazy because I’m terrible at it. It got to the point that my workplace sent a bunch of plants home with me for him to revive.
Description : Any idea what this plant is?
Last Answer : answer:It looks like a sedum of some sort. Sedum is a huge family of over 400 plants. The one you have looks similar to outdoor varieties that I've seen (which may be why it looks so leggy). If ... out for a day or so and then stick the end in some soil - they root quite easily for propagation.
Description : Could this be real lavender? If not, what is it? (underwater plant)
Last Answer : All those plants look artificial to me.
Description : Which came first, the plant or the seed?
Last Answer : Seeds are gametes and not organisms of their own, so seed-bearing plants probably evolved from simpler plant-like organisms. So the plant came first.
Description : What kind of plant is this?
Last Answer : Oh yeah, the pod itself is only about the size of a small marble. It’s not big, but it’s not tiny.