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How to use and care for Aloe plants in your interior officescape Burlington, MA.?

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:30:00 +0000

When it comes to watering Aloe Vera Plants there are many things to consider and factor in. The questions that often get asked are...When should I water my Aloe Plant within my interior office workplace.

1. Aloes like to be dry.

2. Aloes like the soil to dry out before next watering.

3. Aloes need a soil that’s sandy and course so the water can drain through it quickly.

4. The best indication as to when you should water your Aloe plant should be best determined by feeling the soil. Stick your finger in the soil about 2-3 inches and feel for dryness. Adjust to the pot size; Little pots/plants check the soil 1-2 inches and big pots/plants go deeper 3-4 inches or maybe a little more.

5. You want to check the soil in a couple different areas for dryness and make sure there is no moisture before watering again. Depending on the size of the pot or where it’s planted in the ground it’s not uncommon for one portion of the soil to be dryer than another portion so give the soil a couple checks near the base of the plant

6. Soil that’s just a little moist tends to be a little darker and sticks to your fingers more than dry soil. Often people compare the dryness of the soil to the wetness right after a good watering and think that the soil is very dry in comparison when checked days or weeks later. This is where over-watering problems often occur and people get confused because the soil seems dry by comparison.

7. Keep it simple and stick to the rule of thumb. The soil needs to be completely dry. Aloe roots aren’t very long so if you have your Aloe plant in a tall pot or if it’s planted in the ground just stick to the finger check mentioned earlier and feel the soil. It shouldn’t be the slightest bit moist. It should be dry and you should give the plant a moment to enjoy the dryness before watering again.

8. Red and Brown or redish brown tones can be a result of to much water, to much sun or root damage. It’s sometimes difficult to tell but if you’re paying attention to what you’re doing the answer can usually be the result of a change of environment, stress, soil or watering schedule. Sometimes to much water will cause the Aloe leaves to begin turning a red or brown tone.

9. The best thing to do when there is a negative change on your plant such as color, try adjusting something such as less water or moving sun in/out of shade and watch it closely for two weeks to see if there has been a change. Don’t be impatient, give it time to react then you’ll know what’s working.

10. Yellow can be seen in two common areas. Tips or edges start getting yellow and then dark spots on the yellow, this is usually a sunburn issue but if the entire plant is turning a yellow shade then it needs more sun and if given proper sun light the plant will start to turn green again. Just pay attention to the change you make and watch your plant closely over the net two weeks.

Aloes can go a long time without water, weeks and even months depending on the health of the Aloe. The plump aloe leaves retain water so they can go extended periods of time without water. Follow the rules for letting the soil dry out completely before next watering and give your Aloes a few days to enjoy the completely dry soil. A typical rule of thumb is a couple of times a month give or take depending on the climate and weather conditions.

Plantscape Designs Inc. frequently use aloes for our clients sunny window locations in downtown Boston, MA interior offices.

Why use Euphorbias in your interior office plant designs Burlington, MA ?

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Sat, 11 May 2013 07:30:00 +0000

1. The genus Euphorbia is immense and by no means limited to succulents, poinsettias, for example.

2. Succulents and euphorbias are sometimes confused with cacti.

3. Most cacti have clear, water sap; that of euphorbias is milky.

4. Spines of cacti radiate from a central point (aureole), which euphorbias lack.

5.Cacti are new world plants; most cactuslike euphorbias come from Africa Plantscape Designs Inc.uses these interior office plants in windows with southwest exposure.

6.Euphorbia blooms are small and beadlike , very different from the vivid- hued, satin-petalled flowers of cacti.

7.Other examples of Euphorbia are pencil cactus( triucalli) , crown of thorns (milii), bishop caps (obesa) and medusoid forms (esculenta).

8. At Plantscape Dseigns Inc. we use all these plant species in our high light office interior plant gardens within the Boston, MA and Cambridge, MA area.

If your office building lobby looks like this? Call PDI.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Sun, 05 May 2013 06:00:00 +0000

Why can't you lease your office building?

1. The world economy has been stagnated since 2008.

2. Our US economy has suffered greatly with both small and large companies going out of business.

3. High unemployment.

4. As a result empty office space.

This economic climate is about to change, so design and enhance your indoor plant office workplace with Plantscape Designs Inc live green plants, Woburn MA office plants.

Live office plants cannot change the above economic climate, but they can sure change a potential tenants attitude about residing and doing business in your office building in the Rte 128 or Boston, MA areas.

Why use ferns as interior office plants Boston, MA.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000

1. Ferns add a different kind of green texture to your interior office plant design. This reception desk arrangement softens your hard granite or stone desk surfaces for your Waltham, Ma interiorscapes.

Ferns (Pteridophyta)

2. A fern is any one of a group of about 12,000 species of plants. Unlike mosses, they have xylem and phloem (making them vascular plants). They have stems, leaves, and roots like other vascular plants. Ferns do not have either seeds or flowers (they reproduce via spores).

3. Stems: Most often an underground creeping rhizome, but sometimes an above-ground creeping stolon (e.g., Polypodiaceae), or an above-ground erect semi-woody trunk.

4. Leaf: The green, photosynthetic part of the plant. In ferns, it is often referred to as a frond, but this is because of the historical division between people who study ferns and people who study seed plants, rather than because of differences in structure. New leaves typically expand by the unrolling of a tight spiral called a crozier or fiddlehead. This uncurling of the leaf is termed circinate vernation.

5. Roots: The underground non-photosynthetic structures that take up water and nutrients from soil. They are always fibrous and are structurally very similar to the roots of seed plants.

6. The three ferns comprising the above arrangement have differing leaf surfaces adding interest to this reception arrangement in downtown Boston, MA.

Plantscape Designs Inc. applys ferns in many of our downtown Boston, MA officescapes.

pdi, Enhancing your office logos signage Burlington, MA.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:30:00 +0000

1. Indoor green plants can enhance your companies' logo signage in your reception area. Using claasico tall containers with an arrangement of interior office plants of interest can direct clients to your company's logo in a more sutler manner.

2. This indoor green plant living arrangement consists of a pony tail plant, a succulent and a colorful pepperonia, finished with polished river rock.

3. At PDI plants we always try to encourage our customers to use indoor plants of interest within their interior office design Burlington, MA and Waltham, MA.

New indoor office plant designs for the Cambridge ,MA area.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:00:00 +0000

1. Simple indoor office plant design within Cambridge, MA. business lobbies accents the the furniture and art work of these entrances.

2. Both employees and clients can feel the spaciousness of this open modern contemporary design by using fewer topiary sculptured green plants such as this totem pothos (scindapsus Aureus).

3. Plantscape Designs Inc. of Cambridge, MA exercises the simplistic design techniques using both green plants and bromeliad flowers.The bromeliad here adds color to this contemporary reception and seating area.

Why use Rhapis palms( lady palms) in your office interiors?

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:53:00 +0000

1. The Lady Palm is one of the more expensive tropical plants and it takes many years to reach a 6-foot height, but the wait and expense is well worth it in your Boston plants office environment.

2. The elegant, dark green fronds with the serrated tips are born on wirey stems that emerge from a scruffy trunk that looks like it is partially wrapped in loose burlap. Raphis palms will also sprout new growth from its thickened, underground roots.

3. TEMPERATURE: This plant will grow in almost any temperature above 55° and below 95°. Especially in your Burlington Ma office plant location.

4. WATER: This is one of the easiest plants to care for. Water when top of soil feels dry. Do not allow to completely dry out as this will cause the plant to fail.

5. LIGHT: This plant does well in low light situations. Place in a fairly well-lit location. Any location indoors with light bright enough to read in will do.

Plantscape Designs Inc uses these hardy indoor office plants throughout the Boston and Waltham, MA cityscapes .

Using peperomia green plants in your interior office plant designs Boston, MA.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:07:00 +0000

Using pepperomia plants as ground cover for your indoor downtown office building lobbies can add destinctive color creative interior landscape design.

The very popular peperomia plant is a great choice to add color to any room or office. Whether you have one peperomia plant or several grouped together, this attractive plant will brighten up any interior office workplace.

1. There are over 1,000 species of peperomias growing throughout North and South America and the Caribbean. All of them are tropical plants and considered to be semisucculents. They have thick, juicy stems and leaves that hold water in reserve. Besides being attractive plants, peperomias make a nice gift to anyone with marginal green thumbs because they're so easy to grow. Basically, the only way to kill this plant is by overwatering it.

Basic Description of Peperomias

2. Peperomias are slow-growing tropical plants that are found on tropical floors or at the base of trees in a tropical forest. For this reason, they don't like direct sun and thrive indoors in a variety of lighting. They actually thrive under fluorescent lightswhich makes them an ideal candidate for the office.

3. The attractive stiff, waxy succulent-like leaves will catch your eye and depending on the species, the leaves may be variegated, wrinkled, or white-edged. There's one species, the Peperomia argyreia that is striped and looks like a watermelon. It's very attractive but can be used in your indoor office interiors.

4. Most peperomias do not flower in the traditional sense. Their flowers are a long, rat-tail like stem with tiny greenish flowers on an upright spike. Once this spike dies, remove it and the plant may bloom a second time during the summer months.

Caring For Peperomias

5. Without a doubt, peperomia care is very easy in your interior office environment. Peperomias can live in a variety of light situations from low to very bright. They do not like direct sunlight. High heat is not a problem with this plant and average interior office temperatures are fine. Surprisingly, they do not need high humidity or constant misting to live. They are just fine with an occasional misting during the summer months and low humidity of your interior office envirnment.

6. As with all succulents, peperomias do not like to be repotted frequently. They are slow growers and you'll probably repot them only once or twice in their lifetime. They live practically forever which is another reason why they're an ideal indoor office plant for Burligton, MA.

7. The quickest way to kill these plants is by overwatering. Peperomias retain water in their leaves and stems so don't water them until they are nearly dry. After you water them, wait an hour and empty any residual water out from the base. These plants need to be fertilized about once every 3-4 months in spring and summer and no fertilizing during the winter months.

Our staff at PDI always uses peperomias in our interior office plant Burlington ,MA. locations.

Who created these numerous varieties of Tulipiafor your office interiors?

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:00:00 +0000

1. It was a university botanist – or bloemist, as the Dutch would say – who hit upon the notion of breeding more and more exotic-looking varieties, and thus (unknowingly) set in motion the series of events which would forever link his homeland to tulips.

2. Carolus Clusius, working with Viennese seeds in the botanical garden of Leiden University, discovered that some bulbs produced unusual variegations or dramatic colorings, instead of the uniform colors for which tulips were known.

3. Clusius began weeding out the simpler varieties and breeding only the ones which seemed most stunning and unusual. Throughout Haarlem, multicolored tulips became the must-have. Tulips with white backgrounds splashed with vivid reds or pinks were hottest, with purple markings the next most-prized. Dark colors on a yellow background were collectible, too, though not to everyone’s taste (not for nothing were they termed “Bizarden”).

4. Bloemists like Clusius soon noted that only bulbs and buds passed on the most dramatic markings, which meant literally only a few owners at a time might have a particular tulip, and that it would take years for there to have been enough buds and successive bulbs for those numbers to swell. When a new tulip appeared, only the wealthiest, most well-connected buyers could dream of possessing it. PDI services Boston Office Plants.

Plantscape Designs Inc distributes dozens of tulip varieties to your Boston office interiorscape in the downtown Boston, Ma corporate buildings.

PDI visit to the Floriade 2012 was an educational experience.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:00:00 +0000

Floriade 2012 in Holland is a once in a decade experience that every member of our botanical industry should at least once attend.

Floriade is an international exhibition of flowers and gardening held every 10 years in the Netherlands.

As shone above new buildings as well as exterior and interior plantings are creately designed to inspirer not ownly the tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world but small business owners such as PDI enabling us to be even more creative in our interior office plant designs for Boston, Ma. Waltham, MA, Woburn, MA Bulington, MA and Cambridge, Ma

Bromeliad "Torch" variety can be used in your interior office plant design Burlington, MA

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 15:20:00 +0000

The "torch" cultivar of the Bromeliad family can add color to your interior office plant design in Burlington, MA.

Bromeliads last long as flowering plants go and are less expensive than most greenhouse grown potted flowers.

"Torch" can be used on your front reception desk singularly or in groups in your larger planter boxes within your Burlington, MA indoor office plant designs.

Plantscape Designs Inc designs uses bromeliads weekly or bi monthly using these colorful epiphytes in your interior landscape offices.

New PDI designs from Floriade 2012.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:11:00 +0000

Plantscape Designs Inc has learned and is currently applying new designs and new cultivars of indoor office plants and indoor interior flowering programs displayed at the 2012 Floriade in the Netherlands this past fall!

This new varieties of Amaryllis is exciting and are used in our PDI Boston MA office plant interiors

The above new orchid cultivars from Hawaii and office flower arrangement are different and engaging within your indoor office interiorscapes in Waltham, Ma locations

Exterior new design ideas from Floriade 2012.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:46:00 +0000

Exterior new ideas and designs for your outside office gardens for Woburn, MA office workplaces are new and exciting. Anything from gold ball cactus and drifts of orange red hot pokers, purple echinacea to blue phlox. Your interior Woburn , MA office plants can be complimented by your exterior entry way front entrances.

Plantscape Designs Inc can use many of these new pereniel combinations in your exterior planters boxes in your front entrance portals for this coming spring 2013.

Anthuriums are coming in new colors and varieties from Floriade 2012.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:55:00 +0000

Varieties of anthuriums are coming this year from the 2012 Floriade exhibit in the Netherlands.

Just a few below:

1. Anthurium is one of the largest and probably the most complex genera of this family; certainly it is one of the most variable that PDIplants uses in our Bulington, MA interior office plant locations.

2. Many species are undoubtedly not yet described and new ones are being found every year. The species has neotropical distribution; mostly in wet tropical mountain forest of Central and South America, but some in semi-arid environments.

3. Most species occur in Panama, Colombia, Brazil, the Guiana Shield and Ecuador. According to the work of noted aroid botanist Dr. Tom Croat of the Missouri Botanical Garden, no members of this genus are indigenous to Asia.

4. Deliberately or accidentally, however, some species have been introduced into Asian rain forests, and have become established there as aliens.

At PDI we use these green indoor tropical plants in your weekly flower rotation interior office programs Burlington, MA.

New Bromeliad for your indoor officescapes "Athenia" by PDIPlantsBlog.com

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:42:00 +0000

1. Long lasting lipstick colored "Athenia"bromeliads grown from our greenhouses to your office plant interiors.

2. Spring comes early every year for Plantscape Designs Inc. and for our Boston office plant customers.

3 .Bromeliads are a varied group of organisms, adapted to a number of climates. Foliage take different shapes, from needle thin to broad and flat, symmetrical to irregular, spiky and soft. The foliage, which usually grows in a rosette, is the most widely patterned and colored of any plant in the world. Leaf colors range from maroon, through shades of green, to gold.

4. Varieties may have leaves with red, yellow, white and cream variegations. Others may be spotted with purple, red, or cream, while others have different colors on the tops and bottoms of the leaves for your plantsboston offices..

5. The inflorescence produced by bromeliads are also regarded as considerably more diverse than any other plant family. Some flower spikes may reach 10 meters tall while others only measure 2–3 mm across. Upright stalks may be branched or simple with spikes retaining their color from two weeks up to twelve months, depending on species. In some species the flower remains unseen, growing deep in the base of the plants. Visit our PDIPLANTSBlog.com for more info.

At Plantscape Designs Inc. we use bromeliads of every color and size in our monthly interiorscape indoor flowering programs within the Waltham, Ma office locations.

What are Anthurium Superbum indoor office plants?

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 08:00:00 +0000

1. Anthurium superbum is a species of plant in the Araceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. They botanicals can be used in your Boston indoor plant designs.

2. Anthuriums are rain forest plants and are epiphytic. They like a loose well draining potting mix that will get evenly moist but not stay soggy.

3. Soil mix in equal parts of orchid bark, perlite, and sharp sand. Or, if you can find it you can substitute aliflor (the compressed clay pellets) or lava rock for the sand.

Their roots will eventually come up above the soil level and you should let that happen. Any aerial roots should be misted frequently. Anthuriums will tolerate temps to the high 30's-low 40's but they really don't like it, a minimum of 50-55 will keep them happy. In nature they attach to trees in the rain forest canopy like bromeliads and orchids do, catching rainfall. Down in Miami and in the theme parks in Orlando they mount them up in the trees for effect and they are stunning.

These low light epiphyte plants are used in our Boston MA, Cambridge MA and Waltham, MA interiorscapes. Plantscape Designs Inc. designs with these new Zen like Ecuadorian botanicals. PDIPLANTS BLOG.com includes our unlimited plant care guarantee with all our indoor office plant products.

A modern contemporary look using Pachira aquatica ( money tree) and river rock.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:00:00 +0000

A new design concept using Pachira aquatica (money tree) and river rock is illustrated here in this photo taken on site within one of our Lexington, MA clients sunlit lobbies. Visit PDIPLANTSBlog.com for more info.

1. The Pachira Tree itself requires high light locations such as this south exposure lobby. The braided trunk of this tree really consists of many smaller trees carefully intertwined around each other, giving this a newer sculptured effect. These green tropical plants are ideal for your Burlington interior office landscapes.

2. The topiary cut or trim of the lower basal leafs exposes this truck so a different design is created instead of an old 80's bushy jungle look in past interiorscape office designs

3. The black polished river rock adds to a clean modern look and feel of this indoor plant design.

4. Finally, the architectural lechuza cubico designer container itself fully displays both the sculptured office plant and the smooth clean river rock almost at eye level.

At PDI we encourage our old and new clients to use these new design aspects for a better display of their interior office plants in Burlington, MA.

Why and How to use Calanthea indoor office plants in your Boston office.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 15:03:00 +0000

How PDi cares for your indoor Calanthea office plants.

1. Light: Light shade or dappled light for your indoor Boston office plants. Do not expose to direct, noon sun as it will fade the leaf colors, in winter or summer monthes.

2. Water: High humidity. Keep soil continuously moist throughout spring and summer, and reduce watering in the winter outside, however, with your interior Boston office environment more watering during the colder monthes is required because of hign heat and low humity in Boston indoor offices.

3. Temperature: Prefers warm and humid conditions. Keep above 60ºF if possible.
4. Soil: A well-drained potting mix.
5. Fertilizer: Feed regularly with liquid fertilizer throughout growing season.

6. Propagation:

Propagation is possible by division at repotting time. Keep new divisions warm and moist by covering the pot with plastic and providing reduced light until active growth starts again.

Interesting useages of Calanthea other then for designing your Boston indoor office plantscapes with colorful leaves.

Calathea is a genus of plants belonging to the family Marantaceae. There are several dozen species in this genus. Native to the tropical Americas, many of the species are popular as pot plants due to their decorative leaves and, in some species, colorful inflorescences. They are commonly called calatheas or (like their relatives) prayer plants. Several cultivars, e.g. Calathea cv. 'Silver Plate', have been bred.

Calathea cv. 'Silver Plate'

In its native range, the large and tough leaves are popular for holding small items. Sometimes, they are used unprocessed, e.g. to wrap fish for transport in parts of Brazil, such as the Benevidesregion of Pará. In other places, the leaves are used in handicraftto produce containers, such as the quivers of the Nukak people ofColombia. Most famous, perhaps, are the decorative Calathea-leaf rice containers produced in some villages of Thailand, especially in Ban Huak (Amphoe Si Bun Rueang) where they are an important source of income and sold to locals and tourists alike .At PDIPlants we have just begun using this interior green office plant within our indoor Boston office work places.

Why festive Holiday living arrangements instead of cut flowers?

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 13:32:00 +0000

Why living flower arrangements for your Boston office work place? Because they last longer then cut flowers in a vase of water.

These creative interior plantscape garden arrangements last longer then your daily or weekly Boston cut flower vase programs.

Because of their roots are still in moist soil the flowers can flourish and even grow in these arrangements. Visit our PDIPLANTSBlog.com for more info.

The poinsettia thrives in its own soil, which makes them great indoor office plants. The double amaryllis is actually ready to bloom feeding off of its own bulbous food supple, naturally containing all of its own nutrients that it needs to have bright vibrant bloom.

The white and red Kalanchoes last long because the flowers still have they own roots to take up necessary water and nutrients.

Lastly the English Ivy, a great interior office plant, can even grow longer and fuller because they have not been manually ripped from they root structure.

Plantscape Designs Inc delivers these living arrange all across our NE Plantscape and the Boston, MA areas. We give our unlimited plant care service with each arrangement.

Azalea flowering Boston indoor office plants can be incorporated in your interior office plant holiday decor.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:36:00 +0000

1. Potted azaleas come in red, pink and white festive holiday colors. Azaleas are another alternative to traditional poinsettias for your Boston indoor office plants.

2. Topiary trained azaleas such as shown to the left add style and novelty to your office work place.

3. Once, the holiday season is over you can save and plant certain varieties later that following spring in your gardens.

4. Azaleas must be grown in an acid soil, with a pH of 5.0 to 6.5. They will not tolerate lime. Many nurseries will test your soil pH for free,, and give you recommendations for your creative interior plantscapes.

5. Mix compost and peat moss into the soil, and if is necessary for drainage, add in course builders sand or grit for your interior office plants.

Azaleas grow best in well-drained soil or in plant pots in a cool, shady position. Fertilizer is optional, although some species do need regular pruning.

You can work in some well-rotted leaf mold or compost if the soil is short of organic matter. Don't worry about preparing the soil deeply since azalea roots are shallow and most are found in the top foot of soil. Instead, loosen the soil in a broad area around the pot. If a soil test reveals that your soil is strongly alkaline, work in enough iron sulfate or ammonium sulfate to drop the pH to 4.5 to 5.5 for your Woburn Office Plants, Boston Office Plants, Waltham Office Plants, and Burlington Office Plants.

Water the pot thoroughly before planting and tease the soil away from the roots on the outside of the pot. Don't worry about injuring the roots it's more important to remove a significant amount of the potting soil than it is to keep every root intact. Plant the azalea slightly higher than the surrounding soil since it will probably settle after planting. Finally, water the whole pot thoroughly.

Plantscape Designs Inc designs with flowering azaleas inaddition to traditional poinsettias in the Cambridge, Ma officescapes.

Holiday wreaths can further enhance your interior office plants design.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 13:05:00 +0000

Plantscape Designs Inc of Cambridge, MA can further enhance your interior office during the holiday season with creative and festive holiday wreaths.

Traditional wreaths decorated with ribbons , bows and berries is one choice for your Boston interior office plant interiorscapeas well.

Contemporary wreaths designed with solid color themes or ornamental themes such as poinsettias, toys, glass balls or even colorful branches is still another alternative.

Plantscape Designs Inc.of Boston, Ma has a warehouse full of holiday seasonal decorations for all your needs Cambridge MA indoor office plantscapes.

PDI has serviced the Cambridge, MA cityscapes for over 39 years. Visit our PDIPLANTSBLOG.com for more info concerning indoor Boston office plants.

Amyrillus flowers as an alternative to the traditional red poinsettias.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:58:00 +0000

Amaryllis is also known as the Belladonna Lily or naked ladies. The genus has two species and the more famous of the two, Amaryllis belladonna, is a native of South Africa, particularly the rocky southwest region near the Cape. It should not be confused with Hippeastrum, a flowering bulb commonly sold in the winter months for its ability to bloom indoors. Visit us on PDIPLANTSBlog.com for more info. Boston PDI uses these potted flowering plants in our Boston indoor office plant reception areas.

Amaryllis is a bulbous plant, with each bulb being 5-10 cm in diameter. It has several strap-shaped, green leaves, 30-50 cm long and 2-3 cm broad, arranged in two rows. The leaves are produced in the autumn or early spring in warm climates depending on the onset of rain and eventually die down by late spring. The bulb is then dormant until late summer.

The plant is not frost-tolerant, nor does it do well in tropical environments since they require a dry resting period between leaf growth and flower spike production.

Plantscape Designs Inc. frequently uses amaryllis flowers in our holiday Boston interior landscapes Boston, Ma. Our unlimited plants care service parallels all our Waltham indoor office plant products.

A new Holiday variety of Poinsettia, "Ruby Frost"at PDI.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:00:00 +0000

A new Holiay variety of Poinsettia, "Ruby Frost"has just been genetically engineered for your indoor office plant Boston locations.

Our growers and wholesalers are always looking for new varieties of the Poinsettia species to use in your interior office plant situations.

Unlike alot of varieties of Poinsettias, this one is not weak and last much longer then some new variants.

1. Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification, is the direct human manipulation of an organism's genetic material in a way that does not occur under natural conditions.

2. It involves the use of recombinant DNA techniques, but does not include traditional animal and plant breeding or mutagenesis. Any organism that is generated using these techniques is considered to be a genetically modified organism.

3. The first organisms genetically engineered were bacteria in 1973 and then mice in 1974. Insulin producing bacteria were commercialized in 1982 and genetically modified food has been sold since 1994.

4. The most common form of genetic engineering involves the insertion of new genetic material at an unspecified location in the host genome. This is accomplished by isolating and copying the genetic material of interest, generating a construct containing all the genetic elements for correct expression, and then inserting this construct into the host organism. Other forms of genetic engineering include gene targeting and knocking out specific genes via engineered nucleases such as zinc finger nucleases or engineered homing endonucleases.

All of the above is accomplished in the plant cells DNA, resulting in these new and different man made colorful living botanical forms.

At Plantscape Designs Inc we are always seeking new and different botanicals for our corporate office clients in the Waltham, MA area.

Holiday decorations for your Boston,Ma office building.

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:57:00 +0000

Plantscape Designs Inc of New England can decorate your office building with Holiday cheer using many different venues:

1. The use of colorful poinsettias scattered throughout your Boston interior office building.

2. The designing of Artificial Christmas trees decorated with differing themes, Cambridge, MA

3. The use of Amaryllis flowers, Christmas flowering cactus, Star of Bethlehem flowers Woburn, MA

4.The creating of indoor office plant seasonal scenes , woodland scenes Arctic scenes, or nostalgic scenes Burlington, MA

At Plantscape Designs Inc. we build our holiday scenes to fit your interior cityscapes, Boston, MA

Why use poinsettias in your Boston cityscapes?

noreply@blogger.com (Joseph R. Gallo, Jr.) — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:15:00 +0000

Poinsettias should be used in your Boston cityscapes indoor office plants because :

1. They are colorful ; poinsettias come in white , red, variegated, pink and even burgundy colors.

2.Poinsettias are non denominational live decorations announcing the festive holiday season for your interior office landscapes.

3. Poinsettias are long lasting flowers. These living plants can last through the entire holiday season, with proper care even longer for your Boston indoor officescapes.

4. Poinsettias are economical, our prices have not increased the last four years.

Plantscape Designs Inc has serviced Boston Office Plants Holidays for over 38 years. Our unlimited plant care is un surpassed in New England. PDI is a Boston interior green plant design firm.