Also, the plants have the bad habit of losing their bottom leaves or, worse, turning brown-black as the season advances.

These plants prefer consistent conditions day to day in cultivation to avoid dropping their bottom leaves.

I remove the bottom leaves and leave the top four or five.

"When the bottom leaves start to wither, I just pull them off."

Take the few bottom roots off right, bottom leaves.

Mine keeps losing its bottom leaves, but it also keeps throwing out new ones.

Before planting, trim the bottom leaves from the cutting, but leave the top ones to feed the plant through photosynthesis.

Strip the bottom leaves, but keep the others, because these will make food for the plant while it develops new roots.

The bottom leaves of that plant - the ones reaching out over the beach - were also spotted with brown and plainly dying.

Something shiny glinted just under the bottom leaves of a spiny bush she didn't recognize.