A Poem for the Plants of the Amazon
Channel: The Indoor Garden TV Show
Date: 21/03/2020

From a 1992 episode of "The Indoor Garden" TV series: I hope you enjoy this poem I wrote as a salute to the wonderful houseplants that are naturally native to the Amazon forest of South America. The footage is from the opening of show that was made at The National Zoo's Amazonia Exhibit in Washington, DC.  In the second half of this clip you will see several Amazonian native plants that could live as houseplants in your home. 

None of the houseplants that are available on the market today are taken from the Amazon. What you see today in stores are plants from official growers that have been propagated in different ways for many years, sometimes even cloning.  There have been many plants that have been hybridized also. 

There was a time in the past when plant hunters collected many of the most interesting plant specimens from rain forests and tropical areas, but that is not allowed or necessary anymore.

*For more information on houseplants, including full care instructions, check out "The Indoor Garden" blog:

https://www.theindoorgarden.com/

*The soundtrack for all of "The Indoor Garden" episodes were composed by Srini P.  He is still composing and you can check out more of his music at: 

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmmBnxVvLvR-2KjUOOerPxg

The television series aired in the 90's on community television and PBS broadcast station WHUT-TV on Saturday mornings in the Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD area.  

The series was originally professionally videotaped. The videos have been transferred to DVD, then converted to .mp4 HD format for YouTube. 

**Liz had over seventeen years of hands-on learning and experience in the retail and commercial aspects of the horticultural biz before producing this series.


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