Want More?Īs the clump of stems ages and expands, they eventually get overcrowded in the pot, calling out to be repotted. Umbrella plants like a near-neutral pH, as do most other houseplants. As far as potting soil, your regular homemade or packaged mix will suffice. They grow best in sunny windows, but get along in any bright room. Umbrella plants aren’t finicky about care other than watering. There’s also a variegated form of umbrella plant, and a wispy one with especially thin leaves and stems. albostriatus, grows only a foot or so high, and has grassy leaves growing in amongst the stems at the base of the plant. A dwarf form of the plant, botanically C. The stems are two to four feet tall, each leaf four to eight inches long. Picture a graceful clump of bare, slender stems, each stem capped with a whorl of leaves that radiate out like the ribs of a denuded umbrella. Lest you think that umbrella plant sacrifices good looks for ease of care, it doesn’t. Umbrella plants like their roots constantly bathed in water, but not their stems. The top edge of the saucer does have to be below the rim of the pot. Water is always needed! The way to grow this plant is by standing its pot in a deep saucer which is always kept filled with a couple of inches of water. Because it’s native to shallow waters, you never need to decide whether or not to water. The plant I have in mind is umbrella plant ( Cyperus alternifolius) it requires no skill at all in watering. ![]() ![]() Also bad off yet are those plants forced to alternately suffer from both extremes. Too many houseplants suffer short lives, either withering in soil allowed to go bone dry between waterings, or gasping for air in constantly waterlogged soil. Most common problems in growing houseplants (garden plants also) come from improper watering. To anyone claiming a non-green thumb, this is a houseplant even you can grow. ![]() What with the frigid temperatures and snow-blanketed ground outside, at least here in New York’s mid-Hudson Valley, I turn my attention indoors to a houseplant.
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