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Featured plant of the month - Ctenanthe lubbersianna
I have chosen this plant for its lush foliage with interesting variegated markings.
It's growth habit with upright stems producing forks creates unusual display when plant is big enough.
For the information on care please visit Ctenanthe page.
For all other plants - check the menu on the right, the list is not completed and gets updated quite often (although maybe not as often as I would like it to).


Articles and projects
If palm tree gets the brown tips on the leaves.
If it is one of the bottom leaves - you probably have nothing to worry about. As the palm tree grows - the bottom leaves die, the new ones are coming. Just cut the bottom leaf off when it becomes unattractively dry and brown. But if it is the one from the top we are talking about - then it is a problem...
Project: grow palm tree in your house from seed.
I always wanted to have a palm tree in my house, just as a houseplant. When you live in a place with such cold winters as we have here in Ottawa, palm tree in a house makes the whole winter suffering a bit easier, maybe because they always associated with some warm caribbean beach in my mind...
Mealybug - the worst houseplant pest.
It all starts with little cotton-like deposit on a plant, which might be really hard to notice as it usually appears on the underside of a leaf first. If you touch it and brake that cotton shell, there will be smooth soft insect with yellowish-gray body. This little pest can cost your plant's life...
Potting soil with premixed plant food.
Everybody must have noticed those soil bags with beautiful pictures of healthy plants on them. There is a sign in the corner :"with plant food". If you look inside - you will see little green granules mixed into the soil. Use this soil carefully! ...

Events related to house plants or gardening
that could be worth attending, in Ottawa and around:
RARE & UNUSUAL PLANT SALE
Experimental Farm
Sunday, May 8, 2011, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
2011 ANNUAL ORCHID SHOW - see pictures
Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Avenue
12:00 to 5:00 on Saturday, April 23, 2011; 9:00 to 5:00 on Sunday, April 24, 2011


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