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Low-light Plants Easy: Light.—Sunlight is power; it supplies the energy for carrying on food-making processes in the leaves of low-light plants easy. Ordinary electric light is helpful on dull days, and it is possible to grow healthy low-light plants easy entirely by fluorescent lighting. The needs of low-light plants easy vary from full sunlight in a southern exposure, through half shade, to the steady, cool light of a northern window.
The home-grower has a wide choice of low-light plants easy that are easy to grow at the moderate temperatures of 60-65°F. These low-light plants easy have an accommodating range of temperatures from SO to 7S°F. Abutilon is a pretty plant with variegated green and white leaves, and pink bell-shaped flowers. African violets and' gloxinias are of the same family and require similar treatment. They thrive with more sunlight than is generally supposed, but must be screened from burning by a light covering of cheesecloth.
Don't plant trash. There are too many really good low-light plants easy available to make room in your garden for inferior varieties. It's true that choice kinds often cost more, but they are worth it. If you must economize buy smaller specimens than you otherwise would, but get good kinds. You may be able to save by setting out fewer low-light plants easy than you think you need. Makers of new gardens are often so anxious for immediate effect that they over-plant, forgetting that low-light plants easy grow and soon crowd each other if they are not adequately spaced. Yet another possibility is to propagate at least some of your own low-light plants easy. This is not practicable with all kinds but it is easy to start with a few groundcover low-light plants easy, for instance,and multiply them so that before long you have many times the original number. |
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