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🎍Dracaena sanderiana 🎍Lucky bamboo is a house plant with the botanical name dracaena sanderiana. It is an indoor plant t...
16/02/2021

🎍Dracaena sanderiana 🎍

Lucky bamboo is a house plant with the botanical name dracaena sanderiana. It is an indoor plant that is attractive, popular, and easy to care for. It's also considered to be an auspicious plant that brings good luck according to the principles of feng shui and vastu shastra.

✨Quick look:
* Plant lucky bamboo in cactus soil or grow the shoots in water.
* Soil pH of 6.0 - 6.5.
* Indirect sunlight is best.
* Keep the roots covered with water if growing in water.
* Top up the water once a week and replace every few weeks.
* 1/2 strength fish emulsion fertilizer for soil plants a few times a year. Water grown plants rarely need fertilizing and too much can burn the roots.
* Keep in temps 65-90 degrees F.
* Plant does not flower in doors.
* Plant grows 2-3 feet tall but you can maintain the height by cutting the stalks.
* Check for mealy bugs and spider mites.
* Foul smell for water grown plants means that water needs changing.
* Propagate from offshoots. Allow roots to develop in water.

Lucky bamboo roots
15/02/2021

Lucky bamboo roots

🍃Pseuderanthemum carruthersii🍃Pseuderanthemum carruthersii, the Carruthers' falseface, is a species of plant in the fami...
04/02/2021

🍃Pseuderanthemum carruthersii🍃

Pseuderanthemum carruthersii, the Carruthers' falseface, is a species of plant in the family Acanthaceae. It is native from the Solomon Islands to Vanuatu.

☀️Quick look:
Common Name - Purple False Eranthemu
Plant Division - Angiosperms (Flowering Seed Plants) (Dicotyledon)
Plant Growth Form - Shrub (Woody)
Maximum Height - 2 m
Light Preference - Semi-Shade, Full Sun
Water Preference - Moderate Water
Diseases - It is prone to attack by fungus.
Propagation Method - Stem Cutting


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🍃Pseuderanthemum carruthersii🍃
04/02/2021

🍃Pseuderanthemum carruthersii🍃

🍃Pseuderanthemum carruthersii🍃 @ Mauritius
04/02/2021

🍃Pseuderanthemum carruthersii🍃
@ Mauritius

🍂🍃 Acer Negundo Flamingo or Variegated Box Elder 🍃🍂Acer negundo, commonly known as box elder, is a suckering, fast-growi...
03/02/2021

🍂🍃 Acer Negundo Flamingo or Variegated Box Elder 🍃🍂

Acer negundo, commonly known as box elder, is a suckering, fast-growing, weak-wooded, medium-sized, deciduous tree that typically grows 9-15 m (less frequently to 21 m) tall with an irregular rounded crown.

The name box elder (sometimes boxelder) is in reference to a use of the wood for making crates and boxes and the supposed similarity of the leaves to those of elder (Sambucus). Leaves also resemble those of some ashes, hence the additional common name of ash-leaved maple.

'Flamingo' is noted for its variegated foliage. New leaves are pink. but mature to green with white variegation. Orange/yellow fall color.

🌞 Quick look:
* Common Name: boxelder
* Type: Tree
* Family: Sapindaceae
* Zone: 3 to 9
* Height: 9 to 15 m
* Spread: 8 to 10 M
* Bloom Time: March to April
* Bloom Description: Greenish yellow
* Sun: Full sun to part shade
* Water: Medium to wet
* Maintenance: Low
* Suggested Use: Shade Tree
* Flower: Insignificant
* Leaf: Colorful
* Tolerate: Drought, Clay Soil, Wet Soil, Air Pollution

✨TREE CARE: Plant in a well drained and well worked soil. Take care to plant the bud union above the soil level. Water in well and keep soil moist until tree is established. Fertilize when planting and again after new growth appears. Prune tree when planting to encourage new growth. @ Mauritius

🍂🍃 Acer Negundo Flamingo or Variegated Box Elder 🍃🍂 @ Mauritius
03/02/2021

🍂🍃 Acer Negundo Flamingo or Variegated Box Elder 🍃🍂 @ Mauritius

🍂🍃 Acer Negundo Flamingo or Variegated Box Elder 🍃🍂 @ Mauritius
03/02/2021

🍂🍃 Acer Negundo Flamingo or Variegated Box Elder 🍃🍂 @ Mauritius

🪴 Medinilla magnifica 🪴The Medinilla magnifica, like the name suggests, is quite magnificent. It’s one of the most grace...
02/02/2021

🪴 Medinilla magnifica 🪴

The Medinilla magnifica, like the name suggests, is quite magnificent. It’s one of the most graceful and stylish flowering plants you can grow indoors. Its dramatic, rose pink hanging flowers will add a pop of colour to any windowsill through spring and summer and in the winter months the glossy green foliage will come into its own.

☀️ Quick look:
* Botanical Name - Mednilla magnifica
* Common Names - Medinilla, rose grape, showy medinilla, Philippine orchid, pink lantern plant
* Plant Type - Broadleaf evergreen
* Mature Size - 60 to 120 cm tall; 30 to 90 cm spread
* Sun Exposure - Part shade
* Soil Type - Well-drained potting mix
* Soil pH - 6.1 to 6.5 (slightly acidic)
* Bloom Time - Sporadically from April to August
* Flower Color - Pink to coral red
* Native Area - Phillipines, Java, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra

🪴 Medinilla magnifica 🪴The Medinilla magnifica, like the name suggests, is quite magnificent. It’s one of the most grace...
02/02/2021

🪴 Medinilla magnifica 🪴

The Medinilla magnifica, like the name suggests, is quite magnificent. It’s one of the most graceful and stylish flowering plants you can grow indoors. Its dramatic, rose pink hanging flowers will add a pop of colour to any windowsill through spring and summer and in the winter months the glossy green foliage will come into its own.

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