Caring For Calatheas!

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever grown a rattlesnake plant? How about a peacock plant? A zebra plant? All of these are forms of calathea! Let’s explore the delightful and fun world of this gorgeous and popular houseplant. With many vivid variations, this leafy plant can be a perfect addition to your living space. In some areas of the world, they’re useful as well as decorative. Calathea leaves are used to wrap a specific type of tamale in Guatemala, for instance. In Thailand, calathea leaf rice containers are popular amongst the tourist trade. But enough about the uses of calathea. Let’s get on to what it is and how to grow it! Learn More: Calathea: Caring For The Rattlesnake Plant, Zebra Plant and More Keep Growing, Kevin Follow Epic Gardening Everywhere: YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is up everyone? How are you doing out there? Today we're going to talk about the
0:07.0	rattlesnake plant or the peacock plant or the zebra plant. All of these are forms of Calathea. This is a beautiful
0:17.2	beautiful house plant, one that I have a couple varieties of in my own home and
0:21.6	you know it is really blowing up I don't know about you but if you are
0:26.0	following some of these Instagram accounts or some of these pictures you're seeing around
0:29.7	people are just loving houseplants these days and one of the ones they love the most is the humble caliphia
0:36.2	So we're gonna talk about a few different types things that you may want to pick up at your local nursery
0:41.1	There's far too many to cover in an episode but I'll pick
0:44.2	some of my personal favorites and then we'll talk about how to care for these so that
0:47.6	they never ever ever die. They look beautiful and you can just enjoy them in your
0:51.2	home forever and ever.
0:53.2	Like I said, there are nearly 300 cultivars of Callethea.
0:58.8	They're split up amongst several dozen species.
1:01.3	So even on the article online, which is Epic Gardening.com
1:04.3	forward slash Caliphia, it's not possible to cover them all. It would be the
1:09.1	longest article ever. You could probably write a book on these things.
1:12.6	So here are a few that you may want to consider.
1:16.2	My personal favorite I'm going to kick it off with.
1:18.0	That's Calathea, Lancepholia,
1:19.9	also known as the Rattlesnake plant.
1:22.6	So this is grown outdoors in my zone,
1:24.8	which is 10B.
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