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floral display
We recently had a loss in our family,after several years of ill health my husband 's sister passed away. They had a nice floral display that they gave to him and I was just trying to figure out how to keep it alive longer. It had Carnations in it and they died but the other plants are doing fine, I would like some advice as to how to keep it alive for a while longer.
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Those are not cut flowers, they are living plants. The back one I think is a dragon tree and the middle one a dieffenbachia. With proper care they can live more or less forever. They are pretty easy care. Put them by a good light window. Water thoroughly and then don't water again until the top part of the soil is starting to dry out. Feed them once a month or so with a liquid fertilizer. Repot annually into fresh potting soil. In a year or two, when they are bigger, at repotting time you will need to separate them into their own pots.
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Thanks rainbowgardener, , I will move them more toward the middle I actually did something I don't usually do, got rid of a couple of plants that I did not have room for,not the ones I asked you about, some that some one else gave me. I just did not have the room for these plants. So the neighbors took them this evening. So now the waiting game. to see which Amayllis blooms first.
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Hello, I'm new here and this is my first post, sorry it wasn't in the intro forum but I couldn't resist when I saw a picture of the plant that I've been trying to ID. I was given a mixed container of house plants as a gift, that very much looks like the one in the first post. I ID'd 4 plants, but the one in the very front of the picture, I couldn't. Does anyone know what it is called, how to care for it, propagate it, its typical life span and does it ever bloom? I've had it for the past 5months and its doing quite well.