by Lisa Steinkopf | Jan 5, 2021 | #TuesdayTidbits, BLOG, Foliage Houseplants, Houseplant Care, Houseplant Flowers, Houseplant Help
Houseplant shopping. A fun excursion on any day. Is there a plant you’ve been wanting? When you find it and it is offered in multiple sizes, which one do you choose? The 4″ pot or the 10″ pot? It is so tempting to buy the largest plant you can afford...
by Lisa Steinkopf | Mar 17, 2020 | #TuesdayTidbits, BLOG, Foliage Houseplants, Houseplant Care, Houseplant Help
Air layering? What is that? Do you have a plant that is hitting the ceiling? Or the bottom leaves have fallen off, and the plant is leggy? Or you want to make more of the same plant. If you have a fiddle leaf fig, rubber tree, or other woody tree, air layering will...
by Lisa Steinkopf | Mar 18, 2017 | BLOG, Foliage Houseplants, Houseplant Care, Houseplant Profile
The ficus or fig family is a large and diverse family. I never realized how many different ones I had until I started writing this blog post. In the picture above there are 5 different ficus and I have 6 more that aren’t in the picture. The members of the...
by Lisa Steinkopf | Apr 8, 2015 | BLOG, Foliage Houseplants, Houseplant Profile
Fiddle leaf fig with a Dracaena at Kingwood Center in Ohio When I volunteer with the kids at Belle Isle in the Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory, I always point out that common names of plants are quite often given to the plants because of what they resemble. The...
