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pink fuzzy hanging plant Chenille Plant – Plant DetectivesChenille Plant (Acalypha hispida) Chenille Plant brings instant tropical drama with long, fuzzy red tassels that hang like soft ropes of color. It performs best in warm conditions, staying full and leafy while producing showy flower clusters for months. Use it to add movement and texture where you want something bold, not subtle. If you need a conversation piece plant for patios, pool areas, or sunny borders, it delivers fast impact. Distinctive
Chenille Plant (Acalypha hispida)
Chenille Plant brings instant tropical drama with long, fuzzy red tassels that hang like soft ropes of color. It performs best in warm conditions, staying full and leafy while producing showy flower clusters for months. Use it to add movement and texture where you want something bold, not subtle. If you need a conversation-piece plant for patios, pool areas, or sunny borders, it delivers fast impact.
Distinctive Features
This evergreen tropical shrub is prized for its pendulous, chenille-like flower catkins that can reach about 12 to 18 inches long, usually in bright red to deep pink tones. Broad, toothed, medium-green leaves create a lush backdrop that keeps the plant looking full even between bloom flushes. In frost-free climates it can grow into a substantial shrub, while in containers it stays more controlled and responds well to pruning. Mature size is typically about 4 to 6 feet tall and 4 to 6 feet wide, and it can be kept smaller with regular trimming.
Growing Conditions
- Sun: Full sun to partial shade, with stronger growth and flowering in brighter light.
- Soil: Well-drained, fertile soil that holds some moisture without staying soggy.
- Water: Moderate, keep evenly moist during active growth and do not let the root zone dry out for long.
- Zones: USDA Zones 10 to 11.
- Notable Traits: Sap can irritate skin, so handle with care and place thoughtfully around pets and children.
Ideal Uses
- Focal Point: Use as a focal point in a large container where the red tassels can cascade and become the main visual feature.
- Patio Containers: Place near seating areas so the texture and movement of the catkins can be appreciated up close.
- Accent Shrub: Plant in warm-climate beds as a bold accent with a tropical, coarse-textured look.
- Seasonal Color: Use as a warm-season statement plant in cooler regions, then overwinter indoors in bright light.
Low Maintenance Care
- Pruning: Prune after flowering to shape the plant, encourage branching, and keep it within bounds.
- Watering: Maintain consistent moisture, especially in containers where drying happens quickly.
- Feeding: Feed regularly during the growing season to support strong growth and repeated blooming.
- Cold Protection: Protect from temperatures below about 60 F, and bring indoors before frost in cold climates.
Why Choose Chenille Plant?
- Unmatched Texture: Long, fuzzy red catkins create a bold look that few other plants can match.
- Tropical Presence: Lush foliage and strong form make beds and containers feel full and finished.
- Flexible Size: Typically reaches 4 to 6 feet tall and 4 to 6 feet wide, and it takes pruning well for tighter spaces.
- Container Star: Performs especially well in large pots where the flowers can drape and show off.
Chenille Plant looks best when you give it room to show off its tassels, either as a single statement in a big container or as a bold accent in a warm border. Pair it with clean, simple companions so the texture stays the main event. Keep moisture steady and provide bright light for the strongest flowering. If you want a tropical focal plant that brings movement and color for months, this is an easy choice.
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★★★★★ 5
Great course on how to improve your storytelling abilities
Format: Audiobook
Storytelling is a great way to get a point across, and most of us digest information through stories. But when it comes time to tell a story, most of us don't have the skills to make the story engaging or impactful. That's where this course on storytelling comes in. You'll get good pointers on vocabulary, body language, tone, along with deeper pointers about how to shape the view of the story and how to refine its characters. It's all very detailed but it's all very interesting and well worth it. This course will help you see how useful storytelling can be in your personal and professional life, especially if you're in a field where you have to do a lot of public speaking.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2021
★★★★★ 5
Excellent book!
Format: Audiobook
Excellent book!
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Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2019
★★★★★ 5
This book will make a difference in your presentation.
Format: Paperback
If you rely on Powerpoint-like presentation in your work, get Cliff Atkinson's Beyond Bullet Points. I had determined that improving my company's presentations had potentially very high returns so I started poking around the net and Amazon for resources to help. At first, I struck out with books that were supposed to improve presentations, but ended up being guides on technically how to use Powerpoint. That was NOT what I was looking for.
Beyond Bullet Points is very different. It is a philosophy about creating presentations whose purpose is to communicate a story, not dump information. Frankly, it was not intuitive for me so I had to decide to just trust that it would work. When I was about ¾ finished, I started to really "feel" what I was doing. And, to my surprise, the most unlikely people really liked the result.
In a world where most business and how-to books are nothing more that restating what you already know (or, what you know isn't true), this one is an exception. I highly recommend it!
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Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2005
★★★★★ 5
Presentations with the audience in mind
Format: Paperback
I bought this hoping it would be a guide to creating Big-3 Consulting-style slides with fancy diagrams and eye-catching graphic design. That is not what this book is. Instead, this book is about how to tell a story with slides, using the framework of a five act drama. With this method forcing you to focus on who your audience is, what they need to know, and how much time you have to tell them (as opposed to trying to shoehorn everything you know about a subject into your pitch) you end up with a presentation that finishes on time for intelligent questions from an engaged audience.
Since buying the book I have given several well-received presentations using precisely that technique. With no words on screen there is no temptation to just read the bullet points, and the audience cannot think ahead of you and must instead listen to what you're saying. You have to know your material to use this method, but when you succeed your audience will be impressed with your knowledge of the subject matter. (If you're working in a group project and want to Blue Falcon a non-contributing teammate, try giving them a few of these slides to speak to.)
The recommended slide format is one picture and one headline per slide, with no bullet points at all. The book suggests creating Notes Pages with an outline of your talk as a handout, since the slides themselves don't stand alone. (And that's a good thing--visual aids are supposed to *augment* the presentation, not *be* the presentation.)
In conclusion, this book might not be for everyone, but it was exactly what I needed.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2018
★★★★★ 4
An outsider's view
Format: Paperback
When it comes to Cliff Atkinson's Beyond Bullet Points, I am a bit of an outsider. I don't read many computer books and, while I have worked with PowerPoint, my presentations are very simple. Since I admittedly use my share of bullet points in these presentations, I thought learning about an alternative approach would be useful. And while there are definite benefits to reading this book, it may not be perfect for everyone.
Many people use bullet points in their PowerPoint presentations; this can be a great way to organize thoughts, but Atkinson has a difference approach. Essentially, the Beyond Bullet Points method treats presentations as stories told in three "acts." Act One develops the story, Act Two develops the action and Act Three frames the resolution. Each act is broken down into scenes which provide the details. The first portion of the book explains how to work with each act; the second portion deals with the evolution from initial outline to final presentation.
This book assumes a certain amount of PowerPoint knowledge; if you want to learn about the application, this is not the place to start (on the other hand, you don't need to be a PowerPoint expert). One of the nicest things about Atkinson's approach is the way he allows presentations to be pared down to fit the time frame required: his method is designed best with a 45 minute presentation, but it can be easily compressed to a 15 minute or even 5 minute presentation. Another nice thing is that he has a website that readers can access that provides some helpful materials such as template documents.
On the other hand, Atkinson treats the issue of bullet points/no bullet points as something of a black-and-white issue. He doesn't really acknowledge that there may be a middle ground where bullet points should be used in certain situations, perhaps even in conjunction with his approach. I think it's more appropriate to view the Beyond Bullet Points as an alternative approach to PowerPoint presentations, not the ONLY approach.
Atkinson's writing style is straightforward, and like many computer books, a little dry. But as stated earlier, I am reading this book with something of an outsider's view. This is a good book, but Atkinson's inability to look beyond his own approach keeps it from being a five-star work. Nonetheless, if you do a lot of PowerPoint presentations, there is enough useful material in here to merit a read.
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Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2006