Why use bamboo fiber pots in your Boston cityscapes?

Bamboo is one of the most rapidly growing plants on earth. It is a grass, not a wood, making it a non timber, non-fossil fuel resource. And while hardwood forests can take 20-25 years to mature, bamboo forests mature 4-6 years after being harvested. This is why the U.S.Green Building Council has designated bamboo as a rapidly renewable material.

Engineering and testing of Solid Bamboo Planters has been underway for several years, and now we have a product we can sell you which is strong, durable and long lasting for your interior offices.

These planters are available in the Natural Bamboo finish in tapered square and tall tapered square shapes.

PDI hopes you will enjoy these beautiful and environmently-friendly planters in the Boston, MA metro areas.

How do you care for your interior orchid corporate arrangements?

When Your Orchid Is Flowering

Feed with 20-20-20 fertilizer at a rate of 1 gram per liter every other watering.

Do not let the soil dry out; evenly-moist is the ideal state.

Since conditions vary in each household or office, check guide, lift the plant daily and see if it is top heavy. The pot should feel heavy versus the rest of the plant. Water should not be dripping from the bottom, nor should it be sitting in an enclosed container holding water. The holes in the bottom of the pot are there for exactly that reason, good drainage.

If the plant seems to lose its’ luster, you can always mist it with the same rate of fertilizer (only the plant, not the flowers). The misting can be done several times a day as long as you make sure there is no run-off and no standing water on the leaves.

When All the Flowers Have Fallen Off Your Orchid

Cut the stem 5 centimeters above the leaves. Following the procedure described, you will give the plant the opportunity to have multiple spikes as the years go by.

The feeding in this period is stronger. Use the same fertilizer at the same strength but with every watering. If you lose roots (they turn dull and lose the green tip), turn to misting daily for two weeks.

Plantscape Designs Inc services interior orchid arrangements for our corporate clients in the Waltham, Ma area.

Why cut off the reproductive organs on your interior office bamboo palm?

You should always cut off the reproductive structures from your indoor office bamboos because they will grow better.

Most palms, such as bamboos, fan palms, kentia palms , majesty palms , neathe bella palms, etc. need to have their seed structures removed for a healthier appearance and for survival .

The energy that the seed or reproductive structures take from your indoor palm can inhibit or even stunt the growth of your interior tropical plant.

The nutrients and minerals of your fertilizers and even from the parent palm plant will be consumed in the building of new cells and tissues for the new seed structures, not the adult plant, thus depleting the parent palm plant of all of these life giving substances.

So please remove these stuctures as shown here in our photo.

At Plantscape Designs Inc. we always remove these seeds from all our palms for a more symetrical and even growth.

PDI services Boston, Ma and Cambridge, Ma corporate businesses.

Recession package from Plantscape Designs Inc.

The difficult economy can effect your employees on many different levels. One of the solutions Plantscape Designs In. can offer your company is relatively simple and inexpensive -- live, green plants. It has been scientifically proven that healthy, green plants in your office boosts employee morale and helps keep employees healthy by cleaning the air of carcinogens. Consider our recession package below and let Plantscape help you to help your employees.

Plan One :

1. 9 or fewer table/floor (5 table, 4 (3-4 ft. tall) floor) plants in our contemporary powdered steel-finish containers for $99 per month.

Plan Two:
2. 4 (5 - 6 ft. tall) plants/trees in our comtemporary powdered steel-finish containers for $99 per month.

Plan Three:
3. 5 plants (two table, three (3-4 ft tall) floor) plants and one orchid for the reception area in our comtemporary powdered steel-finish containers for $99 per month.

Symptoms of mineral deficiencies in your indoor green office plants.

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• Nitrogen - Lack of growth or limited growth with chlorosis (yellowing) or loss of leaves in severe cases. Purplish coloration due to accumulation of anthocyanin pigments. Entire plant affected, older leaves most.
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• Phosphorus - Dark green, stunted plants. Accumulation of anthocyanin pigments. Delayed maturity. Entire plant affected, older leaves most.
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• Potassium - Mottled chlorosis, necrosis (spots of dead tissue, especially at tips and margins, between veins). Older leaves most affected. Weak stalks, roots more susceptible to disease.
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• Sulfur - Chlorosis of young leaves, usually no necrosis. Veins remain green, tissue between light green.
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• Magnesium - Mottled or chlorotic leaves, may redden. Leaf tips turned upward. Older leaves most affected.
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• Calcium - Inhibition of root development and death of shoot and root tips. Young leaves most affected.
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• Iron - Intervienal chlorosis of young leaves, stems short and slender. Buds remain alive.
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• Chlorine - Wilted leaves, chlorosis, necrosis. Stunted, thickened roots or club-shaped roots near tips.
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• Manganese - Chlorosis of youg leaves, necrosis between veins; smallest veins remain green. Disorganization of lamellar membrane.
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• Boron - Death of stem and root apical meristems. Leaves twisted, pale at bases. Swollen, discolored root tips. Young tissues most affected.
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• Zinc - Reduction in leaf size and length of internodes. Distorted leaf margins. Chlorosis. Older leaves most affected.
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• Copper - Young leaves dark green, twisted, wilted, misshapen; tip remains alive.
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• Molybdenum - Chlorosis or twisting and death of young leaves.

PLantscape Designs Inc uses liquid green fertilizer for all our indoor plant design and installation accounts in the Burlington, MA interiorscapes.

PDI Botany news , smallest living orchid just discovered.

The smallest species of orchid in the world has been discovered hidden among the roots of a larger plant in a nature reserve in Ecuador.

Lou Jost, an American botanist, found the tiny orchid by accident when he was inspecting a plant collected from the Cerro Candelaria reserve in the eastern Andes, which was created by Ecuador's EcoMinga Foundation in partnership with the World Land Trust in Britain.

The plant is just 2.1mm wide, and instantly supercedes the species Platystele jungermannioides as the world's smallest orchid. The petals are so thin that they are just one cell thick and transparent.

The flower is just one of 60 new orchids and 10 other plant species that Dr Jost has discovered in the past decade. "I found it among the roots of another plant that I had collected, another small orchid which I took back to grow in my greenhouse to get it to flower," he said of his latest discovery. "A few months later I saw that down among the roots was a tiny little plant that I realised was more interesting than the bigger orchid.

"Looking at the flower is often the best way to be able to identify which species of orchid you've got hold of – and can tell you whether you're looking at an unknown species or not."

Dr Jost, who works for the EcoMinga Foundation, is one of the world's leading orchid hunters. "It's an exciting feeling to find a new species. People think everything has been discovered but there's much more," he said

A second tiny orchid collected in the Rio Anzu Reserve in central Ecuador is among his other discoveries. "It was so small, it looked like a piece of dirt at first. I was going through the moss on a fallen tree branch – they're good places for orchids to grow – when I spotted it. The flower was 3mm across," he said.

Dave Roberts, of Royal Botanical Gardens Kew, said of the area where the flower was found: "That region of the world is where the majority of very, very small orchids live."

More than 1,000 orchid species have been discovered in Ecuador in the past century, as plant collectors enjoy a bonanza made possible by the construction of roads which have allowed access to some of the most remote and unspoilt forest habitats in the world.

A group of 28 types of orchid which evolved in a mountainous area the size of London was perhaps the most exciting of Dr Jost's recent finds. They are part of the Teagueia genus, which had previously been thought to be restricted to just six species. The evolution of the 28 closely related orchids in such a small patch of land was described as a botanical version of Darwin's finches.

Plantscape Designs Inc. services the Boston, Ma corporate cityscape New England Plantscape community.

Why use tiny Tillandsias with your corporate office orchid arrangements?

We, at Plantscape Designs Inc., use tiny Tillandsias attached to our monthly corporate orchid programs for a more colorful and natural look.

Tillandsias are miniture air plants or bromeliads that flourish in the rainforests of Florida and the Amazon .

These small botanicals attach themselves to stems and branches of trees under the rainforest tree canopies.

All these Tillandsias nutrients and water come from the high humidity of the low cloud covered rainforest.PDI is currently appling tinyTillandsias of 14 diffent species in our monthly corporate orchid gardens inthe Waltham, Ma interiorscapes.