Strategies for Maintaining a Thriving Tropical Office Plants setup
Boost Your Office or Home Space with Low-Maintenance Desktop Gardens
Experience the joy and benefits of indoor plant life with our desktop gardens. These mini botanical setups, graced with diverse varieties of succulents, tropical plants, and ferns, bring a touch of nature indoors. They contribute to improved air quality, reduced stress, increased productivity, creativity, and moments of mindfulness.
However, these green workmates need tender care, too. Here are three essential tips to help you ensure your desktop gardens thrive in the office or at home.
Understanding the Watering Schedule
Our desktop gardens include three different varieties: succulents, tropical plants, and ferns. Each variety requires a unique approach to watering. To prevent over- or under-watering, familiarize yourself with the specific needs of your plants.
- Succulents should be watered every 10-15 days.
- Tropical gardens require watering every 7-10 days.
- Desktop fern gardens usually need watering every 5-10 days.
Instead of sticking to a strict watering schedule, check the soil moisture regularly. Environmental factors like heat, soil, light, humidity, and season affect the watering frequency.
Pro Tips:
- For succulents, wait until the soil is completely dry before watering.
- Mist tropical or fern gardens daily for their wellbeing and yours.
- Water your desktop garden "bottom-up" for stronger roots by placing the planter in a container filled with a few inches of water for 20-30 minutes.
Embrace the Sunlight
Our desktop gardens thrive with a little sunlight, which favour photosynthesis. Although these plants are optimized for indoor living, they still benefit from a little sun exposure. Move your garden around two to three times a week for 30 to 60 minutes for a healthy growth boost.
Understand the light situations in your home or office:
- Bright light: This occurs in a sunny window receiving direct light all day, which equates to a minimum of five to six hours of sunlight daily.
- Indirect light: This can be found near east-facing windows or in an interior room receiving full light from a south-facing window.
- Low light: This occurs in rooms with north-facing or partially shaded windows.
Remember to rotate your plants often to ensure even growth and prevent uneven patterns.
Keep Your Desktop Garden Neat
Even healthy plants may shed the occasional leaf. When this occurs, promptly remove dead leaves to help your plant focus on new growth. Gently rub your fingers against the leaves; if you can feel or see more dust than you can simply blow off, it's clean-up time. Remove dead, brown or yellowing leaves by hand if they come off easily, or with scissors if they are otherwise resistant.
When treated well, desktop gardens serve as beautiful, low-maintenance alternatives for beginners looking to add greenery to their homes and offices.
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Take care of your mental health and wellness by cultivating a low-maintenance desktop garden in your home or office. These mini indoor gardens not only serve as stylish additions to your lifestyle, but they also promote wellness, reducing stress and boosting productivity. Consider investing in items like Vego Garden's bottom watering trays for effective watering, helping your desktop garden flourish with ease.
