Houseplant Decorating Tips
Plants grouped together are infinitely more effective than an equivalent number of plants plants growing indoors will be some way below perfection.
The smaller plant is the creeping fig, F. pumila which, as the common name suggests, creeps along the ground and is ideal for finishing off displays and arrangements. Really, the figs do play a most important part in our work and it is difficult to omit the tough almost to the point of being indestructible, but also because she is very useful for providing a display with a change of leaf form. Also, the greenish-yellow colouring is complementary to many of the other plants in the house plant range.
Although I have no particular preference, as a group of plants the Dracaena deremensis types have much to commend them; mostly grey and white in colour they invariably give one’s plant arrangements a touch of the exotic with their broad, boldly striped leaves.
The questioner wanted to know what my ten favourite house plants were. After thinking for a moment I gave him my answer, and it struck me that the plants mentioned were in fact my ten fivourite display plants – the ones without which I would feel rather lost in an exhibition hall or flower show marquee.
Though not necessarily the most important, was that graceful plant of the Araliaceae Aralia elegantissima, known as Dizygotheca elegantissima, which is a much less manageable name for the average person to cope with. A. elegantissima has graceful foliage which is nearly black in really healthy plants, and can be included in almost any grouping and not he out of place. However, as this plant ages coarser leaves develop and it loses much of its earlier attraction, but it takes many years for this change to take place and should not discourage one from purchasing young plants.
The method employed in displaying two such plants would vary considerably. Then again, people are very variable – some have natural artistic ability, others may he taught how to arrange things artistically, while an unfortunate few remain quite incapable of expressing themselves artistically regardless of the amount of instruction they have had.
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