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General Article On Indoor Trees
Through the years, there have been many suggested ways on how to decorate a personal space. With the long list of available ideas, you must never overlook the use of indoor trees.

Indoor trees provide not only aesthetic value, but also display environmental value. Also, there may be some of you who want to grow trees but have troubles growing them outdoor because of bad climate, and you need to resort to growing trees indoor. Indoor trees are not hard to deal with. They require minimal care, and provide huge results with little work.

It is recommended to buy indoor trees from a florist, a nursery, or a garden center rather than from mass merchandisers. Many specialists offer a warranty period of at least sixty days to determine if the trees are best fit and would grow well in your home or office.

Before buying trees, first decide if you can supply the trees with their basic needs. Different trees have different needs – light and humidity in various amounts. Also consider the budget that you have and the amount of space that you would fit the trees in.

Choose trees according to the space’s exposure to light. Also use small pots to keep the roots intact and keep the trees narrower and smaller.

There are many variants of indoor trees, the most popular of which is ficus. Ficus trees need exposure to bright, indirect light because of their nature as tropical plants. You should not overreact if they tend to drop leaves occasionally. Dropping leaves is just the ficus’ response mechanism to environment changes. The ficus requires monthly fertilization and much humidity. It is advisable

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to place it in a dish filled with gravel to keep the moist.

Dracaena plants are the most commonly used indoor trees in offices. Dracaenas are best suited for low-light environments. Dracaena requires very minimal care, high humidity, and indirect light. They also should be fed monthly with a half-strength indoor plant fertilizer. Other examples of low-light plants are the Aspidistra and the Algoanema or Chinese evergreen.

There is also a group of medium-light plants, examples of which are the raphis palm or the lady palm. These require northern or eastern exposure, and do not need afternoon sunlight.

Citrus trees are also used widely as indoor plants because of their fragrant flowers. Examples are grapefruit, lime and orange. Citrus trees also need much humidity. In addition, there should be four to six hours of exposure to direct sunlight everyday, and an application of blooming-plant fertilizer for every three to four weeks.

There are other indoor trees that are widely used nowadays, such as the cactus, Norfolk Island pine, schefflera, philodendron, and dieffenbachia. It is your choice on what indoor tree best suits you.

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