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Garden Detective: Adapting a croton plant to the indoors

February 1, 2013 11:24 AM By JESSICA DAMIANO jessica.damiano@newsday.com

Reader Bob Delfino's 17-year-old croton (aglaonema).

Photo credit: Handout | Reader Bob Delfino's 17-year-old croton (aglaonema).

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DEAR JESSICA: I have had this plant for 17 years. I brought it indoors around Oct. 25. It flourished outside and looked great, but over the past four or five weeks the leaves began falling. The plant is now thinned out. I have it near a window all the time with the blinds up. Is there anything you could suggest? Am I doing something wrong? -- Bob Delfino, Huntington

DEAR BOB: Crotons are pretty...

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