On table top or window sill the greatest virtues and advantages of this plant would be vastly reduced in value.
Let trailers hang by placing them on a pedestal, shelf, for they look better, more natural this way and give greatest value. Use sprawlers to cover the bare soil area of surrounding pots or to writhe uninhibited across a mantelpiece. Judicious pinching out of misplaced or too strong shoots will keep a bush looking like a bush and encourage a spear-like plant to remain looking this way.
They can help to link house and garden, to welcome the guest at the front door, bring a festive note to the party scene, comfort and engage the invalid, bring a note of businesslike austerity to the office or a tinkle of feminine daintiness and frivolity to the bedroom. They can add to the flavor of your food and prove both useful and decorative in the kitchen. They can bring charm and warmth to a bathroom and can soften and disguise the harsh and utilitarian lines of the loo.
The main thing is to use the plants. They are your plants and you can therefore use them any way you wish, however fanciful or bizarre. Why, for example, should a severe and stately rubber plant be allowed to look so aloof and dignified? Take it down a peg and let a climbing ivy or cissus grow at its base and wind its trails through the large, stately, stolid leaves. Why should a sansevieria be allowed to look so rigid and spear-like? Give it a little tutu of sedum or some other succulent to soften it. Why should a great monstera with its slashed and holed leaves and its snake-like aerial roots be allowed to look so dramatically sinister and evil? Hang the odd gay Christmas bauble among the leaves to shine and glitter and cause amusement.
Regard, for example, the cissus, rhoicissus, ivy, several philodendrons and the dramatic monstera, to say nothing of the huge and rampant tetrastigma. All of these can be trained to cover a wall, to climb to the ceiling and follow the wall around the room. One tetrastigma in our possession once grew near the front door, climbed to the ceiling, was led along to the stairway, climbed up the stair well and was stopped just before it invaded one of the bedrooms. One ten year old cissus still grows happily in a Victorian washbowl without drainage holes. It frames an arch between kitchen and dining-room and shows no signs of its hardships suffered when building operations dictated its removal and storage, twisted and tangled like a cat-teased ball of knitting wool, for several months before being unravelled and trained once again along its almost invisible supports of cotton.
Remember that warm air travels upwards and the area immediately under the ceiling is likely to be both warmer and drier than at foot level, so where plants are to grow tall or be placed high, increase the relative humidity of the room slightly for their benefit.
Let trailers hang by placing them on a pedestal, shelf, for they look better, more natural this way and give greatest value. Use sprawlers to cover the bare soil area of surrounding pots or to writhe uninhibited across a mantelpiece. Judicious pinching out of misplaced or too strong shoots will keep a bush looking like a bush and encourage a spear-like plant to remain looking this way.
They can help to link house and garden, to welcome the guest at the front door, bring a festive note to the party scene, comfort and engage the invalid, bring a note of businesslike austerity to the office or a tinkle of feminine daintiness and frivolity to the bedroom. They can add to the flavor of your food and prove both useful and decorative in the kitchen. They can bring charm and warmth to a bathroom and can soften and disguise the harsh and utilitarian lines of the loo.
The main thing is to use the plants. They are your plants and you can therefore use them any way you wish, however fanciful or bizarre. Why, for example, should a severe and stately rubber plant be allowed to look so aloof and dignified? Take it down a peg and let a climbing ivy or cissus grow at its base and wind its trails through the large, stately, stolid leaves. Why should a sansevieria be allowed to look so rigid and spear-like? Give it a little tutu of sedum or some other succulent to soften it. Why should a great monstera with its slashed and holed leaves and its snake-like aerial roots be allowed to look so dramatically sinister and evil? Hang the odd gay Christmas bauble among the leaves to shine and glitter and cause amusement.
Regard, for example, the cissus, rhoicissus, ivy, several philodendrons and the dramatic monstera, to say nothing of the huge and rampant tetrastigma. All of these can be trained to cover a wall, to climb to the ceiling and follow the wall around the room. One tetrastigma in our possession once grew near the front door, climbed to the ceiling, was led along to the stairway, climbed up the stair well and was stopped just before it invaded one of the bedrooms. One ten year old cissus still grows happily in a Victorian washbowl without drainage holes. It frames an arch between kitchen and dining-room and shows no signs of its hardships suffered when building operations dictated its removal and storage, twisted and tangled like a cat-teased ball of knitting wool, for several months before being unravelled and trained once again along its almost invisible supports of cotton.
Remember that warm air travels upwards and the area immediately under the ceiling is likely to be both warmer and drier than at foot level, so where plants are to grow tall or be placed high, increase the relative humidity of the room slightly for their benefit.
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An indoor gardening tip is to always keep your houseplants moist, plunge pot and keep them out of droughts.
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