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A few days ago in the House Plant forum, I replied to Mike "The Plant Doc" after he'd posted a cute excerpt from his radio talk show, concerning the do's and dont's of giving plants as gifts for Christmas. (See his post: "Plants as gifts!") In my reply I asked him if he thought that sprinkling body glitter on the leaves of Christmas gift plants, to make them look festive, would hurt them. He sent me a PM in reply, which reads as follows:
quote:I am not sure if putting body glitter on the plant will be that great of an idea or not. Even though it does sound very nice and showy, it may clog the pores in the leaves which will not allow it to transpire moisture. I don't know for sure and I am am just guessing on this one though. Maybe a nice ribbon on a stick (stuck in the pot) and the glitter on the ribbon, and some foil wraped around the pot. Mike Maier The Plant Doc
I think he PM'd me, rather than posting his reply on the Forum, because he didn't know first-hand if the glitter would do any harm, which I can appreciate, but I've decided that his answer made sense, so I decided to share it with you all.
After thinking about it, I remember how hard it is to wash body glitter completely off a person , so maybe besides blocking the pores, just getting it all off the leaves would probably do even more damage to a plant!
So, here's what I decided to do: (tiny ornaments-$1.00) Thanx Mike, for making me think!
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Patty.....I'm with you!!! I just hung some little ornaments all over my rubber plant in the kitchen...It looks pretty cool!
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What a great idea. I always get plants for Christmas that are meant to be around just for the season and never think to dress up what I already have on hand.
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so glad i looked at this. i'm going to try to get my plants "prettied" up for the holidats... now that i am actually messing with them again!
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One year I used my Ficus tree as my Christmas tree....I waited too long to go get one and they were all pitiful, so... VOILA!! A few lights, some ornaments....the kids loved it! (We had Doug's then 14 year old and Summer at the time) I may just do that this year to keep Mack from breaking the glass balls I have.
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Yep I wanna see that too. I also want to see how yours looks compared to the one I am growing. Just to see what they look like all grwon up!
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loz
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I'll have a pic soon...my camera broke....
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loz
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That is so cute Tonya, tell her she did good!
You know, it's awful hard decorating a rubber plant.....I had to invent places to hang things...on the ends of leaves and stuff....
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I am proud of her- she put the ornaments up on top all by herself....such a good big sister!
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