One of our houseplants that's been with us for about 3 years has started to
look a bit sorry for itself. During the summer it was looking really good
with a good covering of foliage throughout it's length, but over the last
month or so it has started to shed leaves at an alrming rate. They seem to
disappear mainly from the bottom which now looks a bit straggly and the
leaves that come off are still green.

Unfortunately I don't know what the plant actually is but I've put a couple
of pictures here

http://www.jimm.dsl.pipex.com/

Any ideas what might have caused this, (possibly central heating ?) and how
I can get it to bush out again at the bottom. I thought either

1. Pinching off any new growth at the top
2. Cutting it back to about half it's height and pinching off new growth
3. Cutting off the smaller side shoots that have only sprouted this year
(2002)

Thanks

Jim


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