Ask Tibor Fuchs!
The NY Times is offering an opportunity to get your questions answered by Kensington resident and president of the Metropolitan New York Chapter of the Indoor Gardening Society of America Tibor Fuchs. (Leave your questions in the comments box on The Times website and look for the first set of responses on Wednesday). A bit about Mr. Fuchs:
Mr. Fuchs began growing houseplants about 1975 when lots of former “flower children” opened independent plant shops and stores like Woolworths still carried a nice and reasonably priced plant selection. In 1995, he got serious and joined the Indoor Gardening Society of America and has served as its president for the past three years. He also publishes and writes a monthly column for the society’s newsletter, City Lights, which can be found on the group’s Web site.
Today, Mr. Fuchs grows about 300 plants of many varieties in a two-bedroom apartment in Kensington, Brooklyn, including tropicals (aroids, gesneriads, begonias, orchids) and succulents (euphorbias, aloes, sansevierias, caudiciforms).