Best Plants For Container Gardening
In this article, we will discuss a dozen of the top picks for creating a container garden that delivers a powerful visual impact.
Easy, Breezy Houseplants that Cool Your Home
While everyone loves being indoors in air conditioning on hot summer days, indoor spaces sometimes could use a good pop of plant life. Plus, Mother Nature has her own way of cooling things down. Try cooling your house down the eco-friendly way with houseplants.
Care Requirements For Shrimp Plant
Shrimp plant belongs to the genus Justicia and an evergreen shrub of the family Acanthaceae.
Apartment Plants To Bring Nature Indoors.
In our fast-paced society, who wants to take a lot of time caring for plants, we all want houseplants which are easy to care for with little time investment.
Houseplants That Handle Cooler Temperatures
Winter is a beautiful season, but the cold temperatures can be a little hard on indoor plants. No need to despair, though. There are many varieties of plants that can endure the nippy weather.
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
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Money Tree Care: Growing The Braided Money Plant [TIPS]
Like lucky bamboo, the indoor workhorse Dracaena deremensis ‘Janet Crag’ and other indoor plants, the money plant tree Pachira does well in indirect light and they’re hard to kill.
Christmas Cactus Grow and Care
The Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera bridgesii), also known as Christmas cacti, Thanksgiving cactus or holiday cacti, no other plant seems to be equal, for its odd beauty or for the number of questions from frustrated owners about its care and culture.
Cactus Propagation: How To Propagate Cactus Plants
It’s easy to grow cactus from grafts, seeds or cuttings if you know how. The propagation method of cactus you choose depends on the type of cactus you are dealing with. Each type has its own special quirks.
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.
Houseplants For South Facing Windows
The bright natural light of southern exposure provides plenty of energy for hungry plants. But, you must remember that the glass of the window may magnify the heat to dangerous levels. In this article, we share the merits of a south facing windows for indoor gardening.
On Self Watering – Sub Irrigation Planters.
Self-watering planters or Sub-Irrigation planters (SIP) are the perfect choices for anyone wanting to take up container gardening. However, self-watering pots are ideally suited for busy individuals, forgetful people and those who have not had good luck with plants in the past.
Indoor Plants Are A Stress Buster?
Research has proven that simply being able to look at greenery will bring down stress levels… so really you can have them year round.
Growing Perfect Plants For Balcony, Deck, Patio and Front Entry
Container gardening is very popular today, but it’s not new. People have been growing container plants for centuries, and there are favorites found in every culture. One very popular “style” of growing container plants is using a shrubby or bush plant to create a “standard” tree.
Classic Houseplants for your Living Room
What is the most commonly used room in your home? It’s probably the living room. It’s where the whole family comes together, where visitors sit and enjoy conversations and where memories are made.
Top Houseplants For All Indoor Light Conditions
The ideal location of a plant for decoration may not be the ideal spot for plant growth. Without the correct light a plant, no matter how “perfect” it may be for its setting, limits the growth.
The exotic African Milk Tree, Euphorbia trigona
Euphorbia trigona , or African Milk Tree, is known for rapid and enthusiastic growth. Growing up to six to eight feet tall, it is a rugged, easy-care plant with thorns! The plant features three-sided stalks with spines along its edges and cactus-like branches, and is appropriate in a variety of landscaping and gardening uses. Many…
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.
Prayer Plant Care – How To Grow Maranta Leuconeura
Maranta leuconeura is known as the “Prayer Plant.” The reason why? Marantas fold their leaves into a huddle at night and go to “sleep.” The leaves fold upward like praying hands giving the plant its common name of prayer plant. It is also often called the rabbit track plant because of the chocolate brown markings…
How to Care and Propagate The Superb Calathea
Calathea is a tropical plant also known as the Zebra Plant or Zebrina Plant (Calathea zebrina). These plants are used mainly for their vibrant colorful leaves which include yellow, rose, white, and even olive.
Create A Plant in a Pot Masterpiece
Sometimes we try to complicate things. In much of my life I’ve found the KISS principal serves me well – Keep It Simple Stupid. Selecting pots, tubs, and other planters is part of the pleasure derived from cultivating house plants. Containers can be complementary accessories, even objects of art, at the same time that they…
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…
The Indoor Cane Corn Plant
Summary: Dracaena fragrans corn plant, grown in many forms, usually multiple plants of staggered heights, hardy indoors when acclimated. Fragrans is the solid green variety of Dracaena family we often call the corn plant or cornstalk dracaena. Some of its other common names include mass cane or Massangeana cane.The fragrans flower gave the plant its…
Tips On How To Clean Leaves On Houseplants
You may be surprised to learn that grooming your plants can be one of the most time-consuming parts of caring for them, and with good reason. Proper grooming takes time but keeps plants healthy and greatly enhances their appearance.
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