GROWING SILVER VARIEGATED CALATHEA IN MY GARDEN.

Few years ago, I adopted some plants from an elderly girlfriend. She was finding it too tiring having to care for so many plants and needed to cut down on her gardening activities.

 One of the plants is this Silver Variegated Calathea plant.

Its scientific name is Calathea Picturata Argentea.

 The leaves are silver with dark green outer band or edge. It has a pale green centre vein running from the tip to the base of the leaf.

 The underside of the leaves are wine red or purplish red.

The leaves are supported by long thin upright stem.

Each stem supports a single leaf.

The tiny white flowers comes from the leafy spikes.

 This Silver Variegated Calathea plant is grown in moist garden soil with good water drainage. It grows in clumps.

 This plant is placed in partial shade, exposed to the morning sun.

It is grown in a pot, suitable as an indoor plant. It has low maintenance. It is generally free from pest. No pruning is needed, except to remove the dead leaves.

Propagation is by division of rhizomes including offsets or small baby plants.

It is not a seed bearing plant.

Sow your seed in the morning,

and at evening let your hands not be idle,

for you do not know which will succeed,

whether this or that,

or whether both will do equally well.

(Eccl 11:6, NIV)