Background About a month ago, my Alocasia Silver Dragon started to take a turn for the worse. It had yellow and drooping leaves so I knew I had to do something. This plant had been healthy and growing in the grow tent until now. I really don’t know why it went into a decline. Now…
Philodendron Gloriosum This is one of the most beautiful philodendrons you can grow with it’s bright white veins on dark green leaves. Gloriosum doesn’t grow up a moss pole like other philodendrons, it will crawl sideways almost like it is trying to leave the pot. Although pretty easy to grow, this plant really appreciates a…
So you have noticed this beautiful plant on Instagram with long rippled leaves. You wonder if you can grow such a plant in your apartment or house. The plant looks like something out of a Salvador Dali painting because it is just surreal. You most likely have never seen one of these plants In person because plant shops don’t usually stock them. Even though Veitchii looks like it would be hard to grow, it actually is pretty easy if you give it what it likes.
This year I decided it was going to be the year that I finally paint the sun-room. Ever since I moved into this house I have wanted to paint the drab tan sun-room walls but I have put it off until now.
What Is The Best Fertilizer For A Fiddle Leaf Fig Plant? Fiddle leaf figs are voracious eaters! With their large leaves, relatively fast growth, and towering size, they can deplete your soil in a matter of a few months. It is important to regularly fertilize your fiddle leaf fig to keep it healthy and happy.
The governor in the state of Ohio has imposed a stay at home order for the entire state due to the COVID pandemic. We are allowed to go out for essential stuff like food, supplies and gas but they really want us to stay in our house right now. They do encourage that we go…
With all that is going on right now, it makes it difficult to know what to write about in this blog. I am still caring for my plants and have received some new ones. I would like to just hide in my grow tent until this horrible virus goes away.
I haven’t ordered many plants this winter because I hate taking the chance of the plants arriving frozen and dead. I just watched a video on youtube where a plant tuber ordered $300 in plants from Indonesia and they all arrived dead from the cold.
Now that most of the Hoyas are in the large grow tent, I have been treating some of the larger aroids and moving them in there also. I am going to have to be creative because the Hoyas took up so much room and I have a lot of aroids to fit in the tent….
When I received my Alocasia Baginda Silver Dragon, I didn’t have much hope for this plant. She came to me with mostly broken and bent stems due to the seller not shipping the plant very well. It was obvious that the seller didn’t really care about the plant and they are only in it for…