PDI unlimited plant care

Plantscape Designs Inc. is the interior plant care industry's standard-bearer. This unlimited plant care company has the broadest product portfolio and offers office work place customers the closest thing to a one-stop shopping.

Plantscape not only services plants but builds live corporate flowering gardens for reception desks that last a month or longer verses expensive cut flower short lived arrangements that its competitors offer.

PDI has been streamlining operations to lower its cost structure. For example, our monthly educational plant clinics, using photos of clients' tired or unhealthy plants has educated PDI staff to become more aware of what our customers are seeing on a daily basis. Correcting the situation immediately, therefore making for happier customers and therefore less loss of our customer base during this current recession. PDI services the Boston, MA financial district.

Why use Hawiian Michiko Canes and not Florida cane in your indoor office environments?

Dracaena michiko is one of the world’s most sought-after dracaena hybrids. This fabulous plant is importer from Hawaii and is commonly known as Michiko cane because of its cane-like structure caused by its upright growth habit. The leaves of this plant are held tighter to its trunks. This makes the plant a perfect plant to be put in narrow or tight areas or rooms with limited available space.

Compared to Dracaena Michiko plants grown in Florida, Dracaena Michiko Hawaii have greater life expectancy because of their well-developed root systems. The large size plus a full-grown look would surely mean lower expenses to be spent on pots or decorative containers. In addition, most Dracaena Michiko plants grown from Hawaii are tall and upright or columnar thereby making them excellent choices for places with limited space or area. These reasons and more explain why Hawaii-grown Dracaena Michiko plants are more expensive than those grown in Florida.

At Plantscape designs Inc. the Michiko canes are currently being used in our downtown Boston, Ma. officescapes.

How can scale insects hurt your interior office plants?

Scale insects can hurt your interior office plants by sucking their life juices out of them.

Most scale insects are parasites of plants, feeding on sap drawn directly from the plant's vascular system. A few species feed on fungal mats and fungi, e.g., some species in the genus Newsteadia in the family Ortheziidae. Scale insects vary dramatically in their appearance from very small organisms (1–2 mm) that occur under wax covers (some look like oyster shells), to shiny pearl-like objects (about 5 mm), to creatures covered with mealy wax. Adult female scales are almost always immobile (aside from mealybugs) and permanently attached to the plant they have parasitized. They secrete a waxy coating for defense; this coating causes them to resemble reptilian scales or fish scales, hence the name.

Scale insects feed on a wide variety of plants, and many scale species are considered pests.

Plantscape Designs Inc. can eradicate these insect parasites by injecting a chemical systemic into your plants soil.

The way these chemicals work is as follows:

1.inject the systemic into your plant soil

2.water your plant

3. the water and liquid systemic will be absorbed by your indoor office plants through their root hairs and primary root systems

4.the water and systemic will be transpired up the xyleum vascular tissue of your green plants

5. once the upward flow of these lethal liquids assents the leaves and small upper portions of your plants' stems where the scale reside, these liquids are ingested by the scale insects poisoning them.

Plantscape Designs Inc has been using this systemic chemical solution when biological solutions are not feasible in our interior office plants in the Boston, MA area.

Tillandsia plant care by Rain Forest Flora Inc.

Watering Tillandsias Outdoors is generally easy. A basic rule of thumb is to water them every time you water your other plants. In any area where the humidity is 50% or less it is difficult to over water the plants unless it is very cold. Generally, the warmer and/or drier the air, the more frequently you will water. However, once Tillandsia leaves are wet, more water doesn't do a thing for them. Wet them and leave them. This makes watering quick and efficient.

For hot, humid climates watering the more xeric Tillys (those with whiter and/or fuzzier leaves) requires more attention. When it is hot and humid the plants don’t dry out as quickly as they would in lower humidity. Yet with high heat there is a higher metabolic rate (like a person running up a hill and breathing hard) but the plants can’t respire (breathe) if the leaf surfaces are wet. With high humidity the leaves don’t dry as quickly after becoming wet so in combination with high heat there is a greater potential for rot to set in. You will want to keep the plants from becoming wet too frequently when it is hot and humid.

Watering Indoors

Watering Tillandsias Indoors is a little more critical than outdoors because one generally cannot use a hose so the watering has to be more precise. The most common mistreatment of tillys indoors, unintentional though it may be, is to under water them. Misting the plants CAN be sufficient but it can also be OVER-sufficient or UNDER sufficient. The plants can look dry but actually remain moist in the crucial center area, in the meristematic tissue where new cells are produced. If this area remains too moist for too long the plant may rot. Likewise, one can mist the plants regularly but, in the end, it isn't enough to prevent a gradual dehydration that normally manifests itself with the edges of the leaves curling up and "pinching."

The most secure way to water the plants indoors is to submerge them for a twelve hour period in "good" water, that is, water that is low in dissolved solids and salts. Rain water and bottled drinking water are the best. When the plants are under water for this length of time they have enough water availability for a long enough period of time to completely rehydrate. A soaking in this manner should suffice for ten days to two weeks in average conditions. If a mounting item is too big to submerge, attaching a velcro dot to the plant and the mounting item allows the plant to be easily removed so that it can be rehydrated. Finally, if this just isn't practical or possible, mist the plants with "good" water and try to monitor the state of hydration as best you can. Once you have the right system down that works in your given situation, watering is a breeze.

One last note. If the plants are soaked, you can put water in a container that has a lid to prevent evaporation. This water can then be used over and over for your soakings. A small pinch of Epiphyte's Delight fertilizer in the water helps as well and it lasts indefinitely. Shake or jostle the container prior to putting the plants in, in order to remix the fertilizer evenly throughout the water. Also, as the water gets used, more can be added to keep the container full enough to submerge the plants completely.

Plantscape Designs Inc. uses these tillandsias in our terrarium and orchid gardens flowering programs in the Cambridge, Ma corporate plant designs.

Plantscape Designs Inc does rent office plants for the Boston, MA area.

Plantscape Designs Inc. has been leasing and renting indoor office plants for over 35 years in the Boston, MA business community area.

1. Quick installation

2. No hassle service when our office plants are on your location

3.Numerous indoor office green plant varieties

4.low cost fees

5. you speak to a live customer service representative

Plantscape Designs Inc. can make your office plant rental a pleasant experience.

PDI servicing Boston, Ma for over 35 years