Gardening Can Be Fun With Tropical Plants and Flowers

Bear — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:44:47 +0000

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We have always heard about people having “green thumbs” or the ability to grow plants quite easily than others. Somehow, it has left us wondering if indeed there is such a thing as a green thumb. A lot of times, we do believe that some people really have that ability to keep plants alive even with less effort. Given that knowledge, then maybe green thumbs really do exist. The good news is that we too can develop our own green thumbs if we are interested to learn the art of cultivating soil and caring for the plants. To begin with, you might want to have a shot at tropical plant care. Whether you are caring for them indoors or outdoors, growing plants at home can be a really excellent and sometimes a profitable hobby. Some gardeners start with planting or growing ornate plants for the mere pleasure of beautifying their homes until one day they have found themselves earning well from the sale of potted plants.

If you are just planning to grow some tropical indoor or outdoor plants, you need to identify first what particular plants you would be interested in having. Also, if you really are interested in horticulture or planting, you should start learning how to care for a particular plant or flower you are planning to grow or propagate. Most of the time, plants need to be cared a little differently.

If you are planning to grow flowers, there are a variety of flower species that can easily be planted with seeds that can be bought online. For instance, if you want to grow plumeria flowers, you can easily use plumeria cuttings for that.

There’s really something about growing flowers that would make for an excellent hobby. One of these flower plants should be orchids. Now there are many varieties of orchids out there – some of them came from particular species while others are a product of cross breeding. If you are one of those who are looking forward to growing and caring for orchids, you need to have at least that basic knowledge or information regarding its proper care and maintenance.

Caring for orchids, such as dendrobium orchids, may be a common household hobby. It would not be that hard to make an orchid grow and bloom faster if you are not considering growing it from seeds because that would really take a lot of time.

Other household plants you might want to consider on your list of potential plants to grow and care for are palm tree seedlings. Other considerations should be growing banana tree indoors or outdoors; or you might consider growing bell peppers from pepper seeds instead. Either way, you need to make sure that proper care and attention should be provided in order for plants and the flowers to bloom and grow.

Orchid care gurus – how to plant orchids (slideshare.net)

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Steppin’ into the Garden

Riker — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:27:04 +0000

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Basic Garden Tips

When life gets crazy – an unending list of chores – work projects, volunteering, stuff around the house – I head off into nature.

My escape has always been go hug a tree. But sometimes getting away isn’t so easy. Load up the truck, corral the dogs, prod Husband off the couch – you get the point. So, I brought nature to me. I started gardening. It started off easy enough – a houseplant here, a few herbs over the sink – and soon I’m rototilling the back forty. Well, we live in SF, so it’s more like the back 15×12 – but I digress.

Gardening is simple, if you remember –

Basic Garden Tips

· “I’m thirsty!” – Well, I heard you can over water, but I’ve yet to see it. The trick is to insure that your plants aren’t in standing water. When you are potting a plant, line the bottom with pebbles to insure there is plenty of drainage.

· “No critters!!” – Even the most diligent green thumb battles bugs. Fight nature with nature – Marigolds give off a smell that aphids don’t like, so plant them around your rose bushes. Garlic does, too!

· “One woman’s garbage” – is another woman’s compost. There are many good resources on how to compost, check them out. After a few months, your trash transforms to nutrient rich supplement for your garden.

· “Worms poop, and that’s a good thing” – Worm poop (castings) provide wonderful nutrition for your plants; drop a few in your compost heap. In their travels, they also help aerate the soil.

· Be Nice to the Little Ole Ladies - There IS a garden club in your area. In it there are little old ladies and lanky old men–and an occasional gardening stud–who, if you are nice and bring a covered dish to their meeting–will clue you into EVERYTHING you will ever need to know about growing things in your microclimate. And if your dish is tasty, they just might supply you with bulbs and cuttings from their imposing yards and all the tips you need to eventually out-green them.