Indestructible houseplants juggle maximum impact and minimum effort
A mismatch between what habitat niches give and what plants take in terms of drainage, light, moisture, nutrients, and temperature accounts for many a garden’s decline and failure outdoors. Gardeners contrastingly blame the lack of a green thumb on houseplant decline and indoor failure. But problems indoors with growing and sustaining plants oftentimes can be traced to the same maladjustments as outdoors:
• inaccurate temperature ranges;
• inadequate nutrient levels;
• inappropriate watering schedules;
• incorrect soil pH;
• insufficient light intensity.
Maladaptation more than malpractice therefore describes more typically the reason why plants fare poorly as vegetation for a house’s interior, not exterior, spaces.
Resolution indeed expects savvy selections of stunningly strong houseplants whose survival does not demand that caregivers hover.
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More and more houseplants from the Martin pages beautify the interior downstairs, ground floor and -- when the attic door is open ;-D -- upstairs even as the front porch, the garage and the house sides console themselves with the natural configuration of lichens, mosses and wild plants.
If only Tovah Martin would write another book, about the indestructible outdoor plant, be that plant cultivated or wild, don't you think?
My comment in the preceding box aims at accumulating all the houseplants advanced in Tovah Martin's The indestructible houseplant.
One month short of almost three-and-a-half years later I have her plants here, there, everywhere by heading beyond downstairs and upstairs, floor corners and window sills to housing some hanging from the ceiling beams and others on the shelf running along the garage walls.
Everyone looks beautiful even as ferns and mosses, maidenhair vine, mirror plant, nerve plant, Norfolk island pine, prayer plant and ZZ plant really merit second, third, fourth, etc. looks!
Which ones might you have?
WriterArtist, Thank you for coming by and valuing the time that Tovah Martin took to help those whose green thumbs darken because of fussy environments and fussy plants.
The book offers plants -- all of which I'm aiming to have and love -- that are beautiful, bounteous and brave.
Dear DerdriuMarriner,
I had never imagined there could be 200 possible plants that are easy to grow. In my experience, Sanseveria, Money plant, Crotons, Cactus and Succulents are indestructible provided one does not overwater or starve them indefinitely. They are really hard to kill. Many plants that I own are so fussy, a bit of overwatering or sun - alas, they wither away.
candy47, Tovah Martin's book is educationally fun to look at, read and translate into realities. Three big problems for houseplants are incorrect fertilizing, lighting and watering. On the other hand, it's easy and nice to have a meadow of no-fuss, no-muss wildflowers to look at through the windows ;-D.
I've never had much of a green thumb, but I keep trying! This article just might do the trick this time!
CruiseReady, Isn't that stand lovely? It holds up equally well and looks equally attractive near a sunny window inside or on the lawn, porch, or terrace.
Perhaps in a choice between being outside or in, your plants prefer the outdoors (don't we all?)! But if you favor indoor plants, then Tovah Martin's book is easy to browse and put into effect.
I am with blackspanielgallery.... just about anything grows here outdoors, but I haven't been very good with bringing plants indoors. That's a lovely plant display stand that you found!
blackspanielgallery, They're the kind of plants that tolerate almost non-existent care and still prettify spaces!
I have a way of destroying plants, so perhaps these would be worth considering.