Indoor gardening: Exotic house plants | Newsolio
Exotic house plants have unique needs based upon their natural habitat. Understand their environment and recreate it so they thrive in your home.
The difficulty with caring for exotic plants is understanding their needs. If you already keep houseplants, you might be tempted to care for them like you care for other plants. However, this can lead to trouble. Exotics come from a different environment. They have different needs. For exotics to thrive, you must understand how they cooperate with their habitat in the wild and recreate a similar habitat for them in your home.
Indoor gardening: Exotic house plants
Take tropical orchid plants for example. Orchid plants are epiphytes or “air plants.” That means they live high off the ground attached to tree branches. In their tropical rainforest perch, they have limited access to water and nutrient rich soil. Orchid plants are not parasites. They do not sink roots into their host to steal moisture and nutrients. They fend for themselves by adapting to their environment and becoming efficient users of water and nutrients.
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