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.
Dracaena Michiko Imported From Hawaii
Dracaena michiko is one of the world’s most sought-after dracaena hybrids. This fabulous plant is importer from Hawaii and is commonly known as Michiko cane because of its cane-like structure caused by its upright growth habit. The leaves of this plant are held tighter to its trunks. This makes the plant a perfect plant to be put in narrow or tight areas or rooms with limited available space. Read the story »
Fungicides a Part of a Disease Control Program
Fungicides should be only one part of a disease control program. A relatively small proportion of all the diseases plaguing the landscape/gardener can at present be controlled by fungicides. Read the story »
Insects and Diseases When to Spray Plants
Insects and diseases are a constant menace to garden plants and so a good practice to follow is, either to spray the plants with an insecticide-fungicide mixture as soon as they become established (this is for plants outside), and repeat applications as necessary. Read the story »
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