17 Best Bathroom Plants, How to Choose and Use
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17 Best Bathroom Plants, How to Choose and Use

Houseplants improve the air quality in your home by cleaning the toxins from the air. While it’s advisable to have houseplants in every room, it is especially good to have them in the bathroom. Even if your bathroom is dark and windowless, and even if you are a terrible plant keeper, you can have success by keeping the right plants in your bathroom

Neoregelia Bromeliad Care Tips
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Neoregelia Bromeliad Care Tips

Tip the adult plant out of its pot and gently cut the offsets loose using a very sharp, clean knife or clippers.
Be careful to give the offshoots enough roots to survive. If you cut it separate from all its roots, it will die.
Put the offshoots into their new pots. Cover them with a plastic bag for several days to hold in the moisture and help them get a good start. Be sure to set up a wireframe or a support rod inside the bag to prevent it touching the vegetation of your new plant.

35 of the Best Houseplants For Your Home!
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35 of the Best Houseplants For Your Home!

NASA recommends adding houseplants to your home environment to help clean the air and overall improve indoor air quality. Common sense will tell you that having living plants in the home adds color and beauty along reducing stress and with brightening your mood. In this article, we’ll share 35+ hardy, low-maintenance houseplants and office plants that are easy to grow, even if you have a brown thumb.

Ikebana Workshop – Notes from the Old Ottawa South Garden Club
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Ikebana Workshop – Notes from the Old Ottawa South Garden Club

The Old Ottawa South Garden Club recently sponsored a workshop on Ikebana—the traditional Japanese art of flower arrangement. The workshop was led by Elizabeth Armstrong, a Second Associate Master in the Ohara School of Ikebana. After retiring as a psychologist, Elizabeth became interested in ikebana as an intellectual and creative challenge; she is now a…

Care For Schefflera Arboricola – Dwarf Umbrella Tree
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Care For Schefflera Arboricola – Dwarf Umbrella Tree

Schefflera makes a wonderful tropical houseplant. They are attractive and easy to care for. They are also good indoor air purifiers. Schefflera actinophylla is the “dwarf” sibling of the old-fashioned umbrella plant. Today, one variation of the giant Schefflera planted is named “Amate,” although “Dwarf Umbrella trees” have several kinds and can be found in practically…

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