Success with House PlantsMore than 1500 illustrations combine with concise, expert advice to ensure success with nearly every type of house plant, including flowering and foliage plants, indoor trees, ferns, mosses, creepers, cacti, and other succulents. |
Contents
Using Plants Indoors | 24 |
How to use the AZ guide 64 AZ guide | 66 |
The growth cycle 411 Light | 414 |
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3-inch pot active growth period allowing the top Apply standard liquid areoles based potting mixture begonias Billbergia bloom bracts bright filtered light bright light bromeliads bulbs cacti cactus clusters coarse sand dark green direct sunlight early spring epiphytic Feeding Apply standard ferns fertilizer foliage fronds genus green leaves growth period water hanging baskets house plants humidity hybrids inches long inches wide keep the potting leaf mold leafstalks lizer mature plants medium light mixture barely moist mixture from drying mixture moist mixture thoroughly moist mixture to dry moist pebbles Neoregelia offsets orchids peat moss petals philodendron pink pinnae plastic Potting and repotting produce Propagation PROPER CARE Light pseudobulbs RECOMMENDED rhizome rooting powder roots rosette saintpaulias sand or perlite seed sepals Special points species spines standard liquid ferti stems stolons succulents summer surface tip cuttings top half-inch topdress tubers ture Vriesea weeks winter rest period yellow young plants