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Amateur Gardening
|October 21,2017
Ruth looks at how plants and people can help each other
YOUR garden plants aren’t the only ones to enter a period of dormancy in winter – houseplants do much the same.
As light levels fall and the days shorten, indoor greenery slows down too. It stops putting on growth and, with the exception of ‘gift’ plants such as moth orchids, African violets and streptocarpus, flowering falls off too.
This story is from the October 21,2017 edition of Amateur Gardening.
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