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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

How to Stop Killing Your Peace Lily

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Peace lilies are incredibly beautiful houseplants the produce gorgeous white blossoms. However, they're also notoriously hard to take care of indoors. I've killed a few myself! In today's episode learn the conditions they love so you never kill one again. Learn More: Peace Lily Care – How to Grow Spathiphyllum Keep Growing, Kevin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. Welcome back to the Epic Gardening Podcast. Today we're going to talk about a house

0:06.3

plant that I think a lot of people have problems with. I know that I sure have had problems

0:10.2

with growing them in the past and it's a shame because it's one of the few

0:13.4

house plants that we grow actually for its flowers or for its appearance much more

0:20.5

so than other house plants.

0:22.6

And that would be the peace lily,

0:25.6

also known as Spathy Fillum,

0:28.6

also known as the white sail plant.

0:29.8

It has many different names.

0:31.8

Here's something interesting. It filters out five dangerous

0:34.3

toxins from the air. Benzine, formaldehyde, trichloroethylene, xylene and ammonia. And so in this

0:41.6

guide you're going to learn everything you need to know about

0:43.9

how to care for it and I'll go over a couple different varieties as well.

0:49.9

Honestly, I love it. I mean I grow it because it's one of the few houseplants in my garden

0:55.1

that has beautiful leaves, but of course those blossoms are absolutely amazing.

1:00.1

And so peace lilies, there's about 40 varieties or so so which of course I can't talk about in this episode it would go on forever and ever

1:06.9

And so I'll recommend one small one medium and one large variety for you the small one I would recommend is Power Petit. It tops out at about

1:14.8

15 inches high. Medium-sized piece of lily I would go with the Mona-Loa

1:21.0

Supreme. It's one of the most common ones you can find. It'll get anywhere from three to four feet tall and can reach around nine inches wide on the leaves. Pretty big one there.

1:30.5

Finally, the largest piece of lily variety out there is called sensation and it can reach

1:35.8

actually six feet tall, so a little bit shorter than me.

1:39.6

The leaves can reach up to 20 inch long and are very broad so that is a wonderful one and

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