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Plants are ornaments for the rooms in which you live. Of course, you enjoy them just for themselves, but you can increase your pleasure by selecting plants and placing them where they will be handsome room accents. The finishing touches to a decorating plan.Perhaps you seek boldness of form or leaf pattern as a contrast to neutral backgrounds and solid colors. Or maybe color to reinforce the hues used in other furnishings is an important consideration. You may even wish to use a group of plants as a major decorative feature. Whatever you want done decoratively, there are plants to do it for you.Depending on the size and style of the particular room, its colors, and the space available, consider whether you want to mass a number of plants in one impressive grouping or spotlight a single plant in a key location that makes it a focus of interest.Think, too, in terms of scale. To decorate a large expanse of plain wall, you need a plant or group of plants large enough to blot out the empty look, but not so large that the once-empty wall seems overfilled.Flowering plants in a kaleidoscope of hues can be the exclamation point in .. more »

The word `deciduous` comes from Latin, meaning "to fall off." What is it that makes a trees leaves change color, and eventually to fall off? Although the leaves do it, the trees themselves start it, but they are doing this in order to survive. However it comes about, the performance dazzles the eye and stirs the heart of those who see it. And even as the extravaganza reaches its climax, next year's performance is waiting in the wings. When cells divide, they're growing. As the ratios of these specialized plant hormones change, trees stop making the famous energy-producing chemical chlorophyll. They pull in all the nutrients they can from the leaves, and cut the leaves off from their main stems.In September/October in the Northern Hemisphere, the curtain opens on the show, quietly and without fanfare. A tiny band of cells where the leaf's stem is attached to the twig begins to loosen and dry out. Between these cells and the twig, a layer of corklike cells begins growing. It is scar tissue forming even before the amputation of the leaf takes place.It is the season for brightly lighted days and cool, crisp nights-requirements for the colorful extravaganza that is to .. more »