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Plantscape Designs’ founder and owner Joe Gallo, in addition to serving the clients of Plantscape Designs, is a prolific researcher and author. In 2010, he wrote, “101 Plantcare Tips for Your Interior Plantscape.” He also enjoys educating current and prospective clients as well as general plant enthusiasts by means of frequent blog posts. Read below for the most recent articles.

Pony Tail Palm: Designs by PDIPlants Waltham, MA

Botanical name: Beaucarnea RecurvataPlant type: HouseplantSun exposure: Full Sun, Part SunPonytail Palms are a great, long-lived indoor plant. (Despite it's name and palm-like appearance, it's not a true "palm.")This plant has long green...

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Simpile Designs by pdiplants, Waltham, MA

1. Simple designs such as the above three repeating colorful stromanthe 3' foot plants compliment both the clients color and corporate logo.2. Stromanthe are colorful but low light loving plants, well suited for your indoor office plant design Cambridge, MA.3. Water...

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Plants you have difficulty killing: PDIplants Burlington

ZZ plantPlants You Can't KillIt may be too hot to interiorscape indoors in many offices, so enjoy lush greenery inside! Our Plants of Steel interior office cubicle plants collection is ideal for office staff who have never tried indoor plants or have had bad luck...

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What are the financial benefits of having office plants?

The benefit of plantsProductive StaffResearch has established that plants have a calming effect, particularly for those sitting behind a computer screen for more than 4 hours a day. Other benefits are greater concentration and increased productivity by as much as...

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Why use episcias in your office reception Burlington, MA?

Episcias are related to the African Violets, their foliage and flowers add brightness to an office.Episcias, sometimes listed as “flame” or “trailing” violets, have a magnificent range of foliage and flower color with leaves of shiny green, bronze and silver and...

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Why prune your Boston MA office plants?

When pruning young trees the emphasis should be producing strong structures, in your Boston, MA. interiorscapes.Proper pruning cuts are made at a node, the point at which one branch or twig attaches to another. In the spring of the year growth begins at buds, and...

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If your office building lobby looks like this? Call PDI.

Why can't you lease your office building?1. The world economy has been stagnated since 2008.2. Our US economy has suffered greatly with both small and large companies going out of business.3. High unemployment.4. As a result empty office space.This economic climate is...

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Why use ferns as interior office plants Boston, MA.

1. Ferns add a different kind of green texture to your interior office plant design. This reception desk arrangement softens your hard granite or stone desk surfaces for your Waltham, Ma interiorscapes.Ferns (Pteridophyta)2. A fern is any one of a group of about...

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pdi, Enhancing your office logos signage Burlington, MA.

1. Indoor green plants can enhance your companies' logo signage in your reception area. Using claasico tall containers with an arrangement of interior office plants of interest can direct clients to your company's logo in a more sutler manner.2. This indoor green...

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New indoor office plant designs for the Cambridge ,MA area.

1. Simple indoor office plant design within Cambridge, MA. business lobbies accents the the furniture and art work of these entrances.2. Both employees and clients can feel the spaciousness of this open modern contemporary design by using fewer topiary sculptured...

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Why use Rhapis palms( lady palms) in your office interiors?

1. The Lady Palm is one of the more expensive tropical plants and it takes many years to reach a 6-foot height, but the wait and expense is well worth it in your Boston plants office environment.2. The elegant, dark green fronds with the serrated tips are born on...

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PDI visit to the Floriade 2012 was an educational experience.

Floriade 2012 in Holland is a once in a decade experience that every member of our botanical industry should at least once attend.Floriade is an international exhibition of flowers and gardening held every 10 years in the Netherlands.As shone above new buildings as...

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