Indoor Gardening

Not every plant is suitable for indoor growing.  Select plants that do not need full sunlight, and can be cared for easily.  The selection is also to be driven by the size the plant will grow, and the size of the pot that can be used in the space available.  A five gallon pot might be too large for a center-piece on a table.  Envision where the plant will be, and let this dictate the size that can be considered.

Also, does the plant need sunlight?  If so, how is the location it will occupy situated for its light requirements?  Yes, potted plants can be placed outdoors or on a window sill, then retrieved, but this is work many have no time or inclination to perform.  And if the plant and pot are too heavy to easily move this will be a serious problem.

Gardens are intended to offer an appealing vista.  As plants finish flowering, gardeners must work to keep the focus on flowering plants, whether redirecting the focus, changing the plants, or adding plants.  In an indoor garden one simply has to swap out plants, and either place the variety that has finished in a less used location until they bloom again, or even send them to a greenhouse.  Moving pots is far easier than digging up beds and planting anew.

Most plants produce fragrances, many of which are pleasant.  A pleasantly fragrant room containing flowers is to be enjoyed by multiple senses.  This can easily be enhanced by choosing locations for your plants that have good air flow.  As the air passes over the plants the fragrance given off is distributed throughout the room.

For both aromas and for use in cooking herbs can enhance the indoor garden.  Yes, and indoor herb garden is possible, so a few herbs sharing space with your florals is worth considering.  In fact, some herbs can function in a shared pot with larger flowering plants, provided the pot itself is large enough. These herbs can mimic a ground cover in the pot, albeit a useful ground cover.

Plants take in carbon dioxide, use the carbon, and release oxygen.  They are constantly working to make the air quality better in a room, even when not blooming.

Some people are physically incapable of working in an outdoor garden, and paying a professional gardener might be beyond their means.  But, indoor gardens can be maintained by most people.  The few who cannot maintain an indoor garden can often find a relative or friend to add a little water to a few flower pots regularly, and fertilize plants when needed.  This then allows them to enjoy the plants, and that might be the small thing that takes them out of a depression, and builds the spirit.

A garden club is an excellent way to exchange information, whereby everyone learns from the other members.  Why not extend the idea to a garden club that specializes with the specifics of indoor gardening?  This will allow for an exchange of knowledge pertinent to indoor gardens, and thus be of mutual benefit. 

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