We all have our problems when it comes to plant care indoors, hut in future when your rubber plant decides to shed a leaf.
Being symmetrical plants, they may well form a central feature in a room or office, as they are equally attractive from all view points. Care is needed when handling the plants as there is no way of replacing leaves that may he inadvertently knocked off. In reasonable conditions the schefflera is not in the least difficult to care for.
Having a vine in the plant room is quite a possibility and will provide cool shade for other plants besides a crop of grapes. The best way to treat vines in a small room of the sort we have in mind is to plant them outside the building and to train the stern of the plant through a hole in the wall.
Trained to wires suspended from the ceiling of the garden room they will be quite effective and are very easy to care for. Once established, vines will make rapid growth and will require periodic trimming back during the growing season. In winter they should be cut back to two eyes from the main stem.
We seldom think of garden conservatories without recalling the experience of a florist who was commissioned to plant up and maintain a rather grand Victorian-style conservatory in the home counties. Many mature plants were installed and doing very well until a collection of tropical birds was introduced.
One rather ferocious parrot had a habit of pecking through the sterns of some of the more mature plants, and seemed to have a particular partiality for Aralia elegantissima. So much so that the contract man in charge of maintenance stood there one day and watched as the tall stem of one of these plants toppled and fell to the floor, Polly having performed a very creditable bit of tree felling.
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