Your Guide to House Plants and Indoor Plant Care...
Our goal is to help you learn more about house plants care, avoid mistakes, introduce new plant varieties and help you enjoy plants indoors and outside more. We'll also share the benefits of indoor plants along the way like their ability to clean the air.
One of the biggest problems homeowners face with house plants is pest. Controlling pest on houseplants can be easy, safe and all natural. Mealy bugs, spider mites and other plant bugs hate all-natural neem oil. We like the fact that it is also used for medicinal purposes. Face it homeowners have few safe choices but we like Neem.
The Exquisite Beauty of Calathea Roseo Picta
Calathea Roseo Picta is also known as Painted Calathea, Rose Painted Prayer Plant. This species includes hundreds of varieties that are famous for their colored foliage. Calathea Roseo Picta plants usually come in bush form reaching up to 14 inches in height. The plant has large leaves that are elliptical in shape. Each glossy leaf is prominently dark green in color with rose-colored midrib. In between the margin and midrib is an irregular feathered rosy-colored ring. The underside of the leaf is purple in color. Short reddish-brown petioles hold each leaf. In addition to the beautiful foliage, Calathea Roseo Picta plants also produce white and purple flowers. The flowers are so small that they are considered to be less significant compared to the plant foliage.
The beautiful leaves of Calathea Roseo Picta are now employed by interiorscapers. The plant makes a great container plant. It can be used indoors and outdoors. When grown outdoors, landscapers make use of it as a ground cover or en masse for mix planters and mix borders. The plant’s leaf colors can add a sense of variety to any garden, landscape, or interior.
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