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  1. For some reason I just assumed it was quite humid where you live. We have lots of humidity here being on the lake…especially in the warm months of the year. Our plants do quite well here inside and out.
    Have a good night- xo Diana

  2. Your plants look so nice, Brenda. Your tips for increasing moisture are all good ones. I don't really do any of them with mine except I wash the African violets' leaves under warmish water from the faucet every so often. They seem to love it. You read not get water on the leaves but it's only cold water that causes spots. Even if you only water them with cold water they are prone to spots on the leaves. It shock their little tropical roots!

    I 'm tempted to get a room humidifier, too. But keeping them clean and mold-free seems like more work than I want to have right now.

  3. Too little humidity is exactly why it is hard to grow plants in our house, but I certainly make up for it outside, and bring the flowers in. I could grow cactus, and they are pretty, but I don't want them in my house. Poor Esther, my daughter's pug, received many of those stickers into her foot just from our 75 year plus garden cactus, and it swelled up. Fortunately went down with antibiotics and a cream so they didn't have to operate. xoxo Su

  4. My green-thumbed grandma was big on misting. Some plants don't like direct sun, either. I made that mistake with an orchid. It grew and flowered like mad, but the leaves were burned by the sun.

    1. Hi Marty – start with an ivy. They're almost impossible to kill unless you over-water them and even then I think it might be hard!
      You didn't say you didn't know anything about plants though so hope I didn't offend.

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