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Bird of paradise plants can thrive in many lighting conditions but will do best in bright, indirect sunlight. When growing it indoors, place the plant in a window facing east or north.
Below, we explain further how to care for bird-of-paradise plants correctly with tips from Neimann. There are even tricks on how to repot and move your plant outside to create a lush backyard oasis.
Bird-of-paradise plants can do perfectly well indoors when the outdoor conditions aren't ideal. They grow tall—upward of five feet in some cases—and their leaves love to spread out, so just be ...
Plant Doctor Tom MacCubbin shares advice with area gardeners about bird of paradise plants, sun, soil, fertilizer, camellia shrubs, leaf miners, spinosad, key lime trees, trimming, fruit ...
They don’t have the instant “wow factor” the White Bird of Paradise has. The leaves are smaller, and it takes years for the plants to start blooming.
‘Cleaning with banana peel is best done on houseplants which have ‘waxy leaves’, so that’s alocasis, calathea, monstera, ...
When they are young and newly planted, it’s normal if bird of paradise plants produce leaves and no flowers for a season or two. (Getty Images) An opuntia (nopal) cactus with spines. (Bob Morris) ...
As the leaves decline, you can clip them off or wait until the entire plant turns brown to do the pruning. There is no need to dig the tubers in most areas of Florida – just add a little mulch ...
A relative of the banana, the plant has long, sturdy, blue-green leaves, 9 to 22 inches long and 4 to 12 inches wide, found on extended (12- to 30-inch-long) petioles.
Bird-of-paradise plants do well when they're rootbound, according to UWI: "These plants tend to bloom more profusely when pot-bound, so don't be too anxious to repot your plant…just replace the ...