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Getting to know my house plants: Parlor palm, Chamaedora elegans

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Parlor palm (Chamaedora elegans) is a popular, slow-growing house plant that is known to have been passed from generation to generation. Mine is a first-generation parlor palm, practically hidden away among dracaenas and the arrow head plant in the mixed......

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My kalanchoes are blooming again

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

I have had common kalanchoes, the ones with 4-petal flowers... 3.21.03 ...and calandiva, with double flowers, at various times in the past, but have not been able to get either one to bloom again until this winter. 2.2.10 Kalanchoe is......

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Getting to know my house plants: Rubber plant, Ficus elastica

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

"What the shamrock is to Ireland the rubber plant is to the dweller in flats and furnished rooms..." - The Rubber Plant's Story by O. Henry ( William Sidney Porter, 1862 - 1910) Rubber plant (Ficus elastica), a cultivated, ornamental......

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Prayer plant, Maranta leuconeura

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

My renewed interest in prayer plants began a few weeks ago when I embarked on the series of "Getting to know my house plants". I had prayer plants years ago, before my gardening venture, when I hardly knew any plant's......

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Getting to know my house plants: Arrowhead plant

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Arrowhead plant ( Syngonium podophyllum) is known to be very popular among the non-flowering house plants for their easy care and attractive, light green leaves with white or cream-colored markings. 1.1.10 Arrowhead plant, a native of South America, is in......

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Silver lace fern (Pteris ensiformis)

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Silver lace fern is my first indoor fern. I picked it up a few days ago for $6.99 in 4-inch pot. The fronds are very attractive and quite unusual, with multiple variegated leaflets in silvery white and slightly ruffled,......

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Lucky Bells kalanchoe, a special find of the week

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By Pat Feinstein    Email

Spring is a little over 8 weeks away and the temperature has climbed up into the 40s, melting most of the snow on the ground. Yesterday, I went grocery shopping in Providence on the East Side and walked by the......

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