[net-gold] INDOOR GARDENING: Answers About Growing Indoor Plants, Part 3
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INDOOR GARDENING:
Answers About Growing Indoor Plants, Part 3
Answers About Growing Indoor Plants, Part 3
April 2, 2010, 1:42 pm
The New York Times
City Room
<http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/
answers-about-growing-indoor-plants-part-3/>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/y9se3xg>
Following is the third and final set of responses from Tibor Fuchs, the
president of the Metropolitan New York Chapter of the Indoor Gardening
Society of America.
<snip>
I work in an office with little to no natural lighting but desperately
want a plant for my desk. I have a cactus right now, but its just not
doing it for me; Id like something flowering and lively. What do you
suggest as a good office plant?
Posted by Mary
My office has no windows and no natural light. Is there any plant I could
grow there?
Posted by Lissa
The sterility of most office spaces cries out for the addition of
something alive and colorful. When I worked at a desk, I had some amazing
and unexpected success blooming both a cyclamen and a hibiscus under a
desk lamp with an ordinary 60-watt incandescent bulb. Both of these
flowered for months before eventually petering out, and Id still recommend
them as long as you realize that they need to stay moist and that their
office life will be limited. Keep it to one or two per lamp, substitute a
screw-in daylight fluorescent (of equivalent brightness) for the old bulb
and try to grow any houseplant that doesnt actually require full sun and
is hardy enough to survive those weekends where youll forget to water the
plant on Friday and leave some water in the saucer to tide the thirstiest
ones over. Wrap them in plastic bags when you go on vacation.
Remember that air-conditioned offices can be very dry, so spray as often
as you can and place plants atop six-inch saucers filled with pebbles.
Keep the saucer filled with water but not enough to touch the bottom of
the pots (except on weekends). For flowers, I suggest phalaenopsis
orchids, episcia, Sinningia, spathiphyllum, and Ludisia discolor. For
foliage, grow begonias, philodendrons, prayer plants, Epipremnum,
aglaonema and Polyscias (aralia).
Finally, let me put in a pitch for some of my favorites: footed ferns.
Ferns are very popular, but many suffer catastrophic damage if you forget
to water even once. Not so with Davallia canariensis and D. fejeensis (the
rabbits-foot ferns), and my personal favorite, Polypodium formosanum. In
addition to beautiful foliage, they all ahve numerous creeping rhizomes
that overflow the pot and are an attraction in themselves, hairy and
tarantulalike in the rabbit-foots and light-green and bony with black
spotting for the Polypodium. I like the rhizomes so much that I sometimes
cut off a few fronds just to see more of them. Footed ferns will withstand
days of drought with few ill effects.
I have a small studio with high windows and would like to grow some of my
own food. Do you have any ideas for hanging planters, and what types of
vegetables might do well in them. Also, what types of veggies will do well
indoors?
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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