Understand Plants

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Extreme Gardening is the quintessential gardening guide to organic gardening against all odds. Written by the well-known gardening guru, the “Garden Guy,” David Owens shows the experienced and novice gardener how to grow organic foods in hostile climates (all desert climates) and land. Simple to understand with user-friendly spine, the book covers all topics from watering, design, tools, schedules, fertilizing, companion planting, and soils. The book is easily d… More >>

Extreme Gardening: How to Grow Organic in the Hostile Deserts

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• Famous 7 Drops formula – Just 7 drops per quart of water for beautiful plants
• Improves quality of all African violets and other gesneriads.
• Helps stimulate flower production
• Easy to measure dropper
• Feeds plants the way nature does, delivering nutrients to the roots with each watering.

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The Schultz brand of plant foods first set down roots more than 60 years ago, and it’s still going strong as the trusted name for hardy gardens and vivacious houseplants. From our original liquid plant food formulas to our selection of specialty products to complement your garden, you can count on Schultz products, season after season, year after year…. More >>

Schultz African Violet Plus Plant Food 8-14-9, 4 fl oz. 1061

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Gardening: Easily adapted for the elderly
Sydney Eddison believes you can weed out loads of demanding yard work as you age without reducing the enjoyment of gardening. The 78-yearold author says it’s simply a matter of gardening more wisely.

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I just bought a house with great gardening beds. The only issue is I’m new to gardening and would like to get rid all the plants currently growing there to add new ones. I’d like to pot the rosemary instead of having it on the bed because it seems so invasive. The tomato plants seem to be done for the season. Do I pull them? There are also strawberries, thyme, and others I have no idea what they are.

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• Easy to Grow!
• Amaze your Friends!
• Great gift for an Office, Dorm, Apartment, Home
• Contains Seed, Soil, Pot, Care Tag
• In Approximately 3 Weeks, You Will Have a Sensitive Plant to Enjoy!

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Sensitive plants are native to Southeast Asia. They have developed an interesting and effective means of protection. When touched the leaves fold to reveal thorns, creating and unappetizing meal for it’s preditor. Besides being a strange plant, the Sensitive Plant is very attractive and topped with exotic purple blooms. This plant was featured on an episode of CSI!… More >>

Sensitive Plant Kit – Contains Seed, Soil, Pot, Care Tag

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Seven small greenhouses were set up on the M5 Industries roof. Four were set up with stereos playing endlessly looping recordings (as having the MythBusters actually talk to the plants could contaminate the samples with their expelled carbon dioxide): Two of negative speech, two of positive speech (Kari and Scottie each made one positive and one negative inducing soundtrack), a fifth with classical music and a sixth with intense death metal music. A seventh greenhouse, used as a control sample, had no stereo. The greenhouses with the recordings of speech grew better than the control, regardless of whether such talk was kind or angry. The plants in the greenhouse with the recording of classical music grew better, while the plants in the greenhouse with the recording of intense death metal grew best of all. Part 2: www.youtube.com

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I don’t have enough land to own a farm or any large scale cultivation project. My original idea was to grow bonsai trees, but a 4 year old tree goes for $20. I don’t see how anyone in the world can make any sustainable income off of that.

I can grow anything from cacti to flowers to a full blown tree (don’t have enough space for a tree).

Any ideas on how I can turn my gardening ability into a business?

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Join bestselling author Amy Stewart as she takes on Mother Nature’s most appalling creations. Her new book, Wicked Plants, is an A to Z of plants that kill, maim, intoxicate, and otherwise offend. Drawing on history, medicine, science, and legend, Stewart presents tales of bloodcurdling botany that will entertain, alarm, and enlighten even the most intrepid gardeners and nature lovers. Wicked Plants will be published in May 2009 from Algonquin Books. But you can watch the video now–if you dare. Find out more at www.wickedplants.com

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• Garden scissors for indoor and outdoor pruning
• Durable, serrated, stainless-steel cutting blades
• 1/2-inch-diameter cutting capacity provides excellent cutting power
• Soft, non-slip grip; conveniently located, ambidextrous locking switch
• Measure 8 by 1 by 3 inches

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Easy to use garden scissors feature serrated stainless steel cutting blade with a 1 2″ diameter cutting capacity. Soft, comfortable, nonslip grips with easy to use locking switch is easily accessible for left or right hand user…. More >>

OXO Good Grips 1/2-Inch Gardening Scissors 16050

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As a member of an indoor plant hire company in Sydney, Australia, we are well aware of the reaction people in offices have to indoor plants. When we freshly install plants the staff’s reaction is nearly always positive and welcoming, and most people would like to have a plant near their desk. The plants appear to improve staff morale. On the other hand, taking away the plants is not popular, and we have been asked at times by management to remove the plants when the staff is not there, to try and limit the impact of their removal on morale.

I suppose it does make sense that people have an affinity with greenery. It is part of nature, and we have lived close to plants for millions of years, it is only recently that we have started to lock ourselves into concrete boxes well away from nature. I suppose, as the saying goes, indoor plants bring the outside… inside.

The other thing we have observed is that people love well cared for and healthy plants, but it depresses them when a plant is not looking its best. We sometimes get calls from concerned clients, worrying about a plant that might have a yellow leaf (and is otherwise quite healthy), but they are worried that it might be dying, and they are concerned. Healthy and well cared for plants improve morale, but sick plants do not. In fact they could depress morale.

Over the years many studies have been carried out that support our observations.

In 1986, a study by Joan Aitken and Rodger Palmer from the University of Missouri found that:

1. The majority of both men and women in the study thought of indoor plants as giving an impression of warmth in the work environment.

2. The effective use of indoor plants may give the impression of a well run organization.

The title of their paper was, very appropriately, “The use of plants to promote warmth and caring in a business environment”. Which business would not want to have a well run and caring work place? Well it seems that having well cared for indoor plants helps to achieve that, and the best way to do that is to have a professional indoor plant hire service.

In 1999 the Oxford Brookes University carried out a study entitled “Green Plants for the Feel Good Factor”, which concluded that:

1. People’s perception of an indoor space is more positive in the presence of indoor plants.

2. The indoor space was perceived as more relaxed and less stressful with indoor plants.

3. Both men and women displayed a preference to sit close to plants.

The Green Building Council of Australia awards “Green Star” points for the use of indoor plants in their assessment of the environmental friendliness of a building’s interior, but only if the plants are visible to all work stations. In view of the above studies this seems a very perceptive condition.

One other study merits a mention, and that is a study by Engelbert Kötter working on behalf of the Bavarian State Ministry of Nourishment, Agriculture and Forestry. The study was carried out in 94 offices and over a two year period, and found that:

1. The environment in offices with plants felt fresher, made them feel less stressed, made the working feel more human and in general seem to up-grade their environment

2. Plants in offices improved employee’s perception of their well-being as well as improving the comfort-factor of the offices.

3. With improved conditions and perceptions, office employee’s will enjoy their work situation better; happy employees = more output and happy bosses.

More information on the other benefits of indoor plants in an office environment can be obtained by entering the following search words into Google “benefits of indoor plants”.

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