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Popular Houseplants for a Healthy Home
Here are twelve popular houseplants to add to your home and which are also plants which contribute to a healthy home.
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Having a weather station in your garden can be beneficial for improving your gardening efforts. Here are several ways a weather station can help:
A weather station provides you with real-time and localized weather data specific to your garden. This includes information like temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed, and solar radiation. With this data, you can make more informed decisions about your gardening activities.
Knowing the precise amount of rainfall and the current humidity levels can help you determine when and how much to water your plants. If your weather station indicates that there has been sufficient rainfall, you may choose to delay watering, preventing overwatering and conserving water resources. On the other hand, if the station reports low rainfall, you can adjust your watering schedule accordingly.
Weather conditions significantly impact plant health. By monitoring temperature and humidity levels, you can identify conditions that might be detrimental to your plants, such as extreme heat or excessive moisture. Early detection of unfavorable conditions allows you to take preventive measures, such as providing shade or increasing ventilation, to protect your plants from stress, diseases, or pests.
Certain pests and diseases thrive under specific weather conditions. With a weather station, you can track temperature, humidity, and other relevant data to understand the conditions that favor the development of pests or diseases. This knowledge enables you to implement preventive measures like applying organic pesticides or adjusting planting strategies to minimize their impact on your garden.
Weather stations provide historical weather data, allowing you to analyze patterns and trends over time. By studying this information, you can identify the average first and last frost dates, track growing degree days, and determine the length of your growing season. This knowledge is invaluable for planning the optimal planting and harvesting times for various crops, ensuring better yield and success rates.
Your garden might have unique microclimates influenced by factors such as sun exposure, wind patterns, and location. For example, winds, humidity, and temperatures can be very different depending on whether or not you are at the top/bottom of a hill, or whether or not you are in the marine layer near a large body of water. A weather station helps you understand these microclimates by providing localized data. This information allows you to choose suitable plant varieties for each microclimate, position your plants strategically, and implement measures like windbreaks or sunshades to create more favorable growing conditions.
By collecting and analyzing weather data over time, you can identify long-term trends and patterns specific to your garden. This information can guide your decision-making processes, such as selecting plants that are better adapted to your local climate or adjusting your gardening practices based on historical weather patterns.
Simply, better data means better decisions. With climate change adaptation, better data will gain in importance, leading to better gardens.
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Here are twelve popular houseplants to add to your home and which are also plants which contribute to a healthy home.
Canadian Serviceberry’s stunning white spring flowers turn an outstanding orange in the fall. It’s blackberries are a valued source of food.
Daylilies companion well with lythrum, delphinium, gilia, or other tall plants. And they are at their best planted near evergreens or holly.
Admire the stately beauty of weeping trees in your garden any time of year! Get to know our top 10 varieties for cold climates, from the Weeping Alaskan Cedar to the Weeping Colorado Spruce. Perfect for creating a peaceful focal point in your garden.
Some plants are more resilient and can survive with little food and moisture. They are known as succulents, and they can grow in your garden.
Canada Violet produces stunning, fragrant white flowers with a purple tint for many months from summer to fall.
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