(cheerful music) - Hi, I'm Erik with Landscape Garden Centers, and we're gonna talk about plants, green plants, house plants, office plants, just plants in general.

(cheerful music) House plants is the only hobby that you can start at any time, whereas, like, vegetables, yes, you have to start them in the spring.

Bear rut, you can only plant those for about a month out of the whole year.

There's so many different varieties and colors and textures.

House plants are like a Dr. Seuss book.

There's a big one, there's a tall one, there's a short one, there's a round one.

There's a house plant for every situation.

And what we're gonna show you is a low-light situation, and give you three really great plants to use, a medium-light situation, and what three plants to use, and then also a high-light situation.

Yeah, let's go take a look at a few examples.

Hey, so now we are in a high-light office environment.

In front of me are three different types of plants.

We've got a Jade, we've got a Hoya, and a Dracaena.

These are all plants, these three plants are great plants for kind of a high-light office.

As you can see, as they're very small right now, but these plants can continue to grow and get bigger.

So this is another case where you could move them up into different pots.

But now we are in a medium-light setting.

A medium-light setting is kinda that east, south, southeast exposure.

Not a ton of light, not on the west side, but it's just really good light.

You have a lot of opportunities here.

All right, now we're in an office setting where it's low-light.

There's no windows, and these are the plants that we're still gonna have grow here.

So, these are all four plants that you can use in an office setting that's low-light, or even in a house setting low-light.

Now what this means is it does not require a lot of care.

What does that mean?

No, not as much water, maybe once every two weeks.

And make sure when you water a plant like this is that you're gonna wanna take it out of its pot, thoroughly water it, and then let it drain out of there, and then put it back in, and do not let it sit in the water for long, extended periods of time, because otherwise it will rot the bottom roots off.

(cheery music) (keyboard clacking) House plants are very, very simple.

Okay, don't be coddling them, and don't be watering them every week.

Once that top inch of soil is dry, then that's when you wanna water it, and give it a thorough watering.

Don't give just a little dribble.

Make sure you do a thorough watering, that the water goes all the way through the plant and ends up in the tray in the bottom.

You will notice that plants that are in a house or an office setting do not need to be moved around.

In fact, they hate it.

Once you find a place for that plant and it's prospering or thriving, or just even just living, just leave it alone because it needs to establish itself in that area.

It needs to acclimate itself.

People ask, "When do I need to transplant my house plant from the existing pot into a larger pot?"

Ironically, most houseplants, or green plants, like to be grown and in a constricted environment.

And then that's when they will actually put a lot of growth on.

When it is time, different varieties, different types of different species of plants, you'll want to jump that plant up only by, I always call it about two finger widths, or two inches.

It's like shoes - when your feet are growing, or your kids' feet are growing, you don't say, well, you know they're gonna be a 12, size 12, when they're 15 years old, and they're only four years old.

Just go up one more size, and then that's where the containers really can add a lot of splash and flash.

That's where you wanna make sure that the container you're using has a hole, or it can drain, how somehow you can drain the water out, so it's never sitting in water.

The other awesome thing about house plants right now is houseplants are being brought outside in the spring and the summer, and they're being used in containers, be it in containers with your annual flowering plants.

And then at the end of the summer, you bring them back in.

So this is an awesome way of bringing the inside out.

And then in the fall, bringing it right back inside.

It's just one of those times an opportunity, and the benefit of having plants in your house, and in your office throughout 12 months out of the year.

I'm Erik with Landscape Garden Centers and keep it growing.

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