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Article: The Inside Story;Selecting Plants for Less-Than-Perfect Surroundings
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- February 4, 1988
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When you plan an indoor garden, choosing plants from only one
general type of climate will minimize problems.
If your home is dry and hot and you have no desire to change
conditions, it is best to select those plants that originate in the
desert. If you can generate plenty of humidity, you may want to go
for the luxuriant transplants from rain forests. And if your home
environment is neither very dry nor especially humid, the world's
temperate zones offer plenty of fine flora for adoption.
The ideal all-purpose plant for arid homes and apartments, which
typically are overheated and excessively dry, is the cactus. With
more than 1,300 species, the cactus family is one of the largest and ...