Figure 24 dracaenas placed in plastic white pot (source-google images

healthy growth, insect and mite control and it makes plants looking attractive. Dead leaves and flowers should be removed.

Some plants require regular pruning to keep them in shape and size in proportion to space.

Repotting plants:

As the plant grows, the root system gets bigger causing roots to "pot-bound." This leads to restricted plant growth repotting in the bigger pot is done. Repotting of plants depend on their growth. Repotting for:- Fast-growing plants- every year Slow growing plants -every 2 or 3 years.

Putting Houseplants Outside for the summer:

Indoor pot plants should be kept outside in summer sun once a year for healthy growth. But a sudden change in surrounding conditions can result in yellowed foliage and leaf drop. To avoid harm, plants should be brought indoors before temperatures drop below 10 . It is important to remove pests and insects and rinse the leaves, while plants are ℃ still outside.

2.3.8 Structural changes in building

If a garden in introduced in a building, there is a change in structure. Additional dead load is added to the building. The steps to calculate the dead load of the building as:1. Determine the root length of the plants which are being introduced in the area. 2. A pit is introduced. 3. The depth of the pit is according to root length of plants and additional layers. 4. The volume of the soil which will fit in the pit is multiplied to the density of the soil of the area (varies acc. to location).

The volume of the soil in pit X density of the soil of the area = additional load which will be uniformly distributed over the length of the pit.

This uniformly distributed load is added during the structural construction measurements.

2.4 IDENTIFIED PLANTS FOR PLANTSCAPING

The plants identified for plantscaping are selected keeping in mind the plant availability conditions of Bengaluru. The temperature doesn’t matter to indoor plants as much the amount of light does as the indoor temperature can be manipulated according to human comfort.

The growth of plants indoor is much slower than that of the outside. Therefore the height of plants are restricted to certain levels and rarely go beyond required heights. The plants identified are:

Trees:

Some variety of trees can be grown in interiors which under indoor conditions don’t grow as tall as normal, but provide aesthetic and benefits as that of any other indoor plant. The trees are used to play with proportions in indoors. The plants identified are proven to flourish to its maximum potential in indoors. The 4 trees identified are:

Weeping Fig Tree

Figure 17 Weeping fig (source-google images) Scientific name- ficus Benjamina Foliage