Don't treat your indoor plants like a barber would!
Today as I was getting my hair washed and cut at the barbers in Ranelagh, Dublin, I noticed they had a variegated ficus plant growing in a container just inside the front door. The ficus or fig plant in question did not look too healthy - leaves all turned toward the door and the large window; very few leaves and branches on the side of the plant facing the inside of the room. What does this mean? Simple really - don't ever place a ficus or any indoor container plant inside a front door especially a door which spends the whole day wide open. Indoor plants detest draughts and they need to be positioned in a prt of the room which does not suffer the effects of draughts. It is also advisable to rotate your indoor plant containers once every two to three days as this action will provide all areas of the plants with an equal amount of daylight and sometimes sunshine. Today I also had a pleasant conversation with Dave - a driver based in Dublin Bus Donnybrook bus garage. He told me that he had put up a trellis so that his indoor scindapsus - botanical name: Epipremnum aureum (Scindapsus aureus) - Devils Ivy plant could climb up along this wooden support.Just last night another driver (Tyrone) revealed that sheeps droppings on sand dunes in Wexford were responsible for a plethora of mushrooms. These mushrooms are edible, but beware! There are poisonous mushrooms also and it is worthwhile to get your mushrooms checked out before going into a field and filling up containers of what are esssentially 'fungi'.
posted by Thomas @ 6:22 pm
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