Your Guide to House Plants and Indoor Plant Care...
Our goal is to help you learn more about house plants care, avoid mistakes, introduce new plant varieties and help you enjoy plants indoors and outside more. We'll also share the benefits of indoor plants along the way like their ability to clean the air.
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Codiaeum variegatum var. pictum Croton
Croton (Codiaeum variegatum pictum) is an ornamental shrub from the south Pacific that is popular and is extensively cultivated for its attractive and colorful foliage. This tropical plant is available in many brilliant colors. Its leaves range from green when you to shades of red at maturation. Each long glossy leaf is mottled with heavy splashes, spots, bands, and blotches of yellow and white colors. Some house specimens of croton pictum produce long clusters of small inconspicuous flowers.
TIP: Croton will produce the best color under bright light and cool temperatures.
Among the different types of shrubs, the crotons are considered to be one of the most beautiful foliage plants. Croton pictum is suitable for growing in containers. Potted croton pictum plants are excellent plants for interior décor purposes. Patios and shrub borders are excellent homes for this plant when grown outdoors. Indoors, croton pictum will surely flourish when put on a window seat or in a room where there is full or slightly protected sunlight.
Neem Oil Safe for Humans
Products made from Neem Oil have been used and consumed by humans for years in the production of soaps and oils along with medication. The exposure to neem in the process of treating plants with neem oil poses Read the story »
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