Keeping indoor plants alive when we are not there to tend to their daily, weekly or monthly feeding schedule does not have to be an insurmountable problem. You need not resign yourself to a housefull of dead plants if you use an indoor plant hire service. Just as there are house sitting services, there are indoor plant hire services that you can arrange with to keep your plants living while you are not at home. Such service can be from a friendly neighbor with whom you have established a mutual cooperative relationship and to whom you can entrust your key to tend to your plants. There are official indoor plant hire services that can be located from local telephone directories or from local newspaper handyman service ads. Your choice of a friend or professional service depends on your personal situation and your preferences.
Choosing to have someone tend to your plants while you are away might be an additional expense to your travel budget but replacing your plants can be even more expensive. Keeping your plants alive can actually be seen as a cost saving addition to your normal check off of traveling plans. It is amazing that many travelers plan for everything except for the well being of their indoor plants.
Finding a house full of dead plants is frustrating and expensive. You must not only discard the dead plants, but buy new plants or punish yourself by living without your natural air and oxygen replenishers, your indoor plants.
An indoor plant hire handyman can be found from someone who does other work and is occassionally hired by you. Choosing a professional, bonded house tending service might be more expensive but might be less aggravating than hiring a family member who does not live at your residence. Whichever way you go, you need to plan for the care of your plants when you are planning to be away for an extended period of time. Really, the sight of dead plants when you return from a trip can be very devastating mentally even if you do not perceive it as such.
Leaving your indoor plants out of doors can save you the cost of an indoor plant hire service, but you shouldn't count on your plants being alive even if let out of doors. The air in your house, however, will not be as contaminated with dead plant fungus and other spores if the plants are allowed to die out of doors.
Gary Nolan is a freelance writer. You can find a wide range of indoor plants hire companies in New Zealand here.
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