Plants need a good dusting
When you’re cleaning, don’t forget about your plants.
Dust on the leaves can reduce the plant’s ability to photosynthesize at an optimum rate.
How do you dust a plant?
You can mist smaller plants with a spray bottle. Take larger plants outdoors on a nice day and gently spray them. Allow the leaves to dry off in the sun before bringing them back inside.
Don’t forget plastic plants need love, too
My tomato plant
I keep the little information tag so I can identify what it once was. Oh yea…that was an attempt at growing tomatoes. I’m so proud I was able to keep the stake green all winter long. Don’t worry. You won’t find any gardening advice on this site.
Dusting fake plants
Needless to say, my house is full of fake plants. I have plant shelves in almost every room in the house and greenery on each one.
Collect the fake greenery and place them in the bathtub/shower. Spray them off with the shower head and let them drip dry in the tub.
Don’t forget about the fake trees
The same goes for my fake trees which I lean into the tub and spray them off to keep the base dry.
They are dark green again!
Hi Melinda
I know this is your serious site. Just been over to your humorus one but you do make me smile with your quips about a black thumb and not being a gardening site:-)
If you ever decide you want to give gardening a go again; hop over to my site and I cannot believe anyone would kill a lavender plant……oh no there could be a first lol
Patricia Perth Australia
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LOL I will give lavender a shot and see if it survives. I heard it is hard to grow in the Florida heat though. When I was in second grade I planted a lemon seed and it grew. Occasionally it would produce a leaf or two…so I held onto the hope that one day it would grow a lemon. It went with me to college because it was the plant I had kept alive against all odds. It was a 4 foot high stick with 4 leaves most of the time..sometimes no leaves. That was my greatest gardening accomplishment. I would tell people to be careful around it…I didn’t want someone to accidentally knock its only leaf off. I finally gave up that it would ever do anything and eventually put it out of its misery.
I don’t think you could kill a plastic one. Just make sure not to water it with gasoline and then light the gas on fire.
But you are absolutely right – plants do need to be kept clean. People wonder why they don’t do well indoors sometimes, when the house is a stuffy, dusty mess. Gee, I wonder why.
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LOL If the plastic leaves are falling off the fake plant is that a sign it is dying? JK!
Just to encourage you Melinda. I have been researching lavenders grown in the US as I have grown them without trouble in the UK and back home here in Oz. Apparently in some states it is too humid and they get things wrong with them!!! I was shocked as they are so easy to grow here. Will be interested to see if you manage against the odds to get a lovely lavender to grow for you.
Eventually I am going to do a book on all things lavender and I will have to have separate sections for UK, US and Aussie climates as they seem to survive better in some than the other.
Patricia Perth Australia
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I think that is the problem with growing a lot of plants in Florida. It is too hot and humid. Of course tropical plants thrive.