Indoor Plant Care - How to Houseplant Care

Rhapis Palm House Plant Care Rhapis Excelsa Palm, or Lady Palm, is a great indoor house plant. The fan-like fronds are a shiny, glossy green when healthy. Rhapis Palms will tolerate lower light and temperatures than many other palms, making it a good choice for the home or office. Rhapis excelsa is a fan palm. Although most fan palms are seldom sold as house plants and will mostly be found in large, indoor landscapes because of their size and spread, the Rhapis Palm is well suited to life in the average home or in the office. The Rhapis palm plant has more of an upright growth habit than many other fan palms. This elegant palm plant has a fairly tough constitution. Read more about the fantastic palm plant that can be used as a potted, indoor plant.

All plants require light to produce food. Outdoors that is not a problem but for houseplants light can be quite limited. I recently did a search for "houseplant care" and was surprised to see that the top, non-paid search result defined high light for an indoor plant as any light for more than six hours a day. Here is a quote from that result - "Houseplants typically require high light (six or more hours a day), medium light (four to six hours a day), or low light (less than thre e hours a day)." That is not accurate and I hope if you find that website you will go on to other results or visit my website on Houseplant Care. Dieffenbachia Houseplant Light is measured in intensity using a light meter and we use foot candles as a measure of light for interior landscaping. Low light, medium light and high light fall between 25 foot candles to 250+ foot candles. Low light is at the lower end of that measurement and high light at the upper end. The amount ...