Showing posts with label indoor gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label indoor gardening. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Caring For Indoor Plants


Having your own garden inside your home is a healthy way of living, because most houseplants purifies and cleans the air that you breathe. Keeping them healthy is a must , but with the changing interior lights and variable conditions, you may need extra time and effort to make sure that they grow well. With a little preparation and some care, you can keep your houseplants looking beautiful. A good rule of thumb for keeping your houseplants healthy is to try to match the same environment from which they originated. Although it may be hard at first, because you may not be able to match every criteria for your houseplant, but every small step you take to ensure the houseplants comfort will be a giant step towards keeping them healthy.


There are important elements you may need to remember for your plants to grow healthily. They are water, light, and selecting the right pot or container. Most plants have dormant and active cycles, and their watering and fertilizing requirements will greatly differ from season to season. There are no hard and fast rules to watering, because every situation is different due to temperature variations, humidity and soil types. One must have that every home owner or indoor gardener is a indoor metal watering can and mister. This is to make sure that you are providing just the right amount of water to your houseplants. Always remember that, it is better to keep an indoor plant on a slightly dry side than over watered.


Insufficient light usually manifest itself with paler foliage, lanky growth and general lack of luster. Sometimes the light inside our houses is not enough to keep houseplants growing well. Learning how and when you may need to supplement and what lights to use is the best way for your plant to receive the amount of light it needed for optimum growth. Evaluating your plants needs as well as your home style before picking a container is also another way to ensure not only your plants grow well but the style and decor of your home is also in harmony.




Saturday, October 16, 2010

Christmas is the Best Time of the Year

Christmas is fast approaching. Do you have something new for your house? Something to make the house more special and inviting for the holiday? Every year, new home accents for Christmas are coming out. In fact, home designers are creating unique and innovative concepts of home accents for Christmas to attract customers and avail their merchandise. And among the most popular products include Christmas wall decor, terrariums and illuminated planters.

During Christmas, most decorations are Christmas trees, lights, mistletoes, reindeers, Christmas balls, poinsettias and many others. As mentioned above, wall decor is the latest trend of home decoration that most owners are using to create a much pleasant look inside or outside of the house. Wall decors are made of wood, iron, metal, steel and aluminum. There are modern wall designs that are now formed into different home decoration structure that could give much beauty to our homes. Stores are now adding wall decors as their new line products for different holidays. They also have designs like Christmas trees, artificial flower design, etc that could add splendid look to our living space on Christmas.


There are also glass containers that are being developed as household ornaments. We can put something inside of it like plants and small animals that would create such a lovely and unique home decoration. Most people, who are into botanical living, tend to create glass container plant designs which they call glass terrariums. These are originally designed containers for home decoration. Some are using terrariums as pots. They place soil, succulents and primary plants to grow on the container. It may look really weird to put live plants to grow on them. The terrarium is really designed for interior and exterior decoration. Most creative minds make use of their unused aquariums to create glass terrariums. They use bigger glass containers to accommodate more and bigger plants.

Home accents are normally great addition to our house. Without them, our house is just a plain crib just used as our shelter. Come and participate the Christmas spirit by having unique and great interior Christmas decorations that we can afford in the local stores. Let us make the best time of the year perfect.