Hard to Kill : Houseplants for the inept -

21 de març de 2011 per Monapart

The New York Times | Michael Tortorello publicat November 10, 2010

Plants need water, you know. Per a què planteu, or better, like to live with plants, or even better, like to live s beautiful plants, but your foyer is a halfway between a cozy berth in someone else's home and a pauper's greu in your backyard, you definitely need to read this article.

Three experts such as Uli Lorimer, curator of native plants at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Mike Rimland, director de business development for Costa Farms, a líder company in the indoor houseplant and bedding plant industry, and Mark Hoover, the man behind Plants Are the Strangest People, a bloc where he writes sobre quirky lives of his 878 houseplants, where asked for advice. Seu shared their best tips and their favorite catalogs.

Here is a list of plants that cannot be killed (with star next to the indestructible plants):

· Uli Lorimer's list ::
Wax plant (Hoya Carnosa Variegata)
Bird's Nest Fern (Asplenium Nidus)

Rabbit's Foot Fern (Davallia Fejeensis).

Croton (Codiaeum Variegatum)

★ Castell-iron plant (Aspidistra Elatior) :: Heu tret this plant like a piece of furniture. Tot és sac, remember a les seves foot-long leaves every once in a while.