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African violet Coleus Ctenanthe
Dracaena Episcia Euphorbia
Jatropha Nematanthus Norfolk island pine
Ponytail palm Prayer plant Sago palm
Schefflera Zebra plant ZZ plant
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...

Grow palm tree in your house from seed.
(part 1 - Getting seeds ready.)
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! ...

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