TOP 10 PLANT TIPS

1. Use trough planters as natural screens. They reduce noise and are useful as barriers to segregate walkways and work areas.
    
2. One of the most common causes of plant death is over watering. If in doubt, leave it to Ambius - the experts.
    
3. Your indoor plants need water, light and warmth to survive, so when you are off on holiday, don’t forget about your green friends. Make sure that someone else knows to keep the blinds open and the thermostat up.
    
4. Variegated plants (featuring leaves with white edges or white flecks) often need more light than their green cousins. Keep them nearer to a window so that the can get all the light that they need.
    
5. Plants reduce stress. See www.plants-in-buildings.com for more information.
    
6. Plants acclimatize slowly to different surroundings by changing their leaf orientation and structure. If you can, try not to move them
   around, as they may not adapt as easily as you think.
    
7. Avoid annoying little flies by being careful not to tip tea and coffee into plant containers. The sugars left in the compost make it an ideal breeding round for sciard flies…
    
8. You can still have plants where space is at a premium. Some of the latest designs use tall containers to show off the plants, whilst taking up as little floor space as possible.
    
9. Regularly prune your indoor plants at home to stop them becoming “leggy”. Once they’ve lost the foliage on their lower branches, it’s very difficult to get it to return.
    
10. There is now general agreement within the scientific community that indoor plants improve the indoor environment and are useful weapons in the fight against the modern phenomenon known as "Sick Building Syndrome”.