http://ask.metafilter.com/tags/indoorplants Questions tagged with 'indoorplants' at Ask MetaFilter. Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:29:13 -0800 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:29:13 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://ask.metafilter.com/88884/Blooming%2Dindoor%2Dplants What kind of flowering indoor plants will keep flowering? I'm interested in trying to grow some hopefully-happy indoor plants, and am looking for something to branch out of the leafy-green indoor plant standard (or at least the standard found at my office). Are there any flowering plants that a normal human can get to flower on a semi-regular basis, indoors?<br> <br> Also, I'm interested to hear if you have any suggestions for indoor plants that can do well with minimal sunlight (irrespective of flowering ability). I live in Pittsburgh, which means that it can be hard to get high-sunlight conditions for plants. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2008:site.88884 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:29:13 -0800 flower indoor indoorplants plants that girl http://ask.metafilter.com/77864/Is%2Dmy%2DBenjamin%2Dwet%2Denough Do you have a happy Ficus tree? Can you help me water mine? I have four large (about five feet tall) indoor Benjamins that haven't stopped dropping leaves since I got them in September... which, yeah, was probably not the best time of year to acquire new, finicky plants. At any rate, they are at least dropping fewer leaves as time goes on (but I had no idea that they would still be dropping leaves after so long!) and do continue to put out new leaves, so I'm hoping for the best, but I'd love to have some level of confidence about how much to water them. I get contradictory advice when searching, and I'd like to hear from folks who have healthy specimens themselves.<br> <br> Each one is near or at a window; the general climate here (in Greece) is dry; they each have a quite large pot (they were re-potted at the same time that we got them). They came from a nursery, but not an upscale one. They don't have any yellow leaves, but each one continues to drop perfectly healthy fully formed leaves.<br> <br> If I at least could be certain that I'm not under-watering them, I would be glad. I'm watering 1.5 liters each, about once every two weeks, but that's me holding back, since I read that the worst thing was over-watering, and this amount was recommended at some web site somewhere. tag:ask.metafilter.com,2007:site.77864 Wed, 05 Dec 2007 02:37:24 -0800 benjamin benjaminfig ficus gardening indoorplants plant plants tree watering taz