Outdoor Houseplant Activities........in the Summertime
Channel: The Indoor Garden TV Show
Date: 2022-05-16

A 1991 full-length episode of "The Indoor Garden" TV series: Summertime is a great time to get your houseplants in shape. There are many houseplant tasks that are easier to do outdoors and Liz demonstrates some of these. She has visits from neighbors looking for help with their Nephthytis, Dieffenbachia and Hibiscus.

Most houseplants can live outside in a shady or mostly shady area until the temps go below 40°F. Indoor plants are not used to full sun outdoors. The intensity of light is much stronger outdoors so please keep that in mind. Late spring and summertime is the best time to restore them if they aren't doing as well as they could. The outdoors really does help revitalize them. 

Messy jobs such as repotting, cleaning, leaching the soil and insect removal can be done efficiently and help keep your plants thriving year round.

For more info on many houseplants, with full care instructions for each one, please 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://open.spotify.com/album/3LBPGwLgx83xIj8YXrf2ZD

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

This episode has been modified from the original. A short segment with an address for viewers to write to, has been removed. 

"The Indoor Garden" TV series was originally professionally videotaped for television. The videotapes have been transferred to DVD, then converted to an HD quality .mp4 for YouTube. 

This series was produced at Arlington Community Television in Arlington, VA. in the 1990's. The series ran for a few years on the local PBS station, WHUT-TV in the Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD areas.  

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.


Happy Growing!