Homes and Garden Decorating

When looking through all the homes and garden decorating catalogs the publishers always like to include plants and flowers - the plants and flowers offer that finishing touch in a design. It’s not just in design catalogs but also at the furniture stores, but they like to use silk plants. Whatever the choice don’t use the plants in the catalogs as a “recommendation” of the plant for use in that environment.

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Bromeliad Guzmania Ostara

Guzmania Ostara is a popular bromeliad hybrid developed by Bak Nursery. Ostara is grown as potted bromeliad primarily in 6-inch pots. The flower grows tall and upright into a bright orange torch shape with yellow floral bracts. Ostara is an improvement on its predecessor the popular Guzmania Orangeade.

If you’re looking for long lasting bromeliad flowers the Guzmania group offers a wide variety of colors and sizes which can last 3-4 months before losing the color impact.

Bromeliads for Color Neoreglia Rafael

Neoregelia Rafael is a broad leafed Neoregelia with a center of deep blood red. Rafael can grow very large and acquire a leaf span of almost 3 feet. For best color keep Rafael in medium to high light and water once a week by filling the center of the cup.

Bromeliad House Plant Care

Potted Bromeliads offer ease of use and easy care, always a plus for any house plant. But which varieties hold up the longest and hold their color when used indoors. Starting to decorate with Bromeliads can be as simple as placing a colorful Guzmania Ostara on a table with it’s splash of color or combining several of them into decorative pot creating a bromeliad garden. Learn more about the best bromeliad varieties for your use at home.

Automatic Watering for Plants

When going away for a long weekend or a couple week vacation trying to figure out who is going to water your plants is always question that stumps many a houseplant lover. You’ve spent a lot of time getting them to look good and the last thing you want to do is come home to a room full of dried up leaves and wilted stems.

Learn about an automatic watering solution for your plants - it may not be a self watering pot - but it is close! Read more on watering your houseplants automatically today...

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