Plant scale insects come equipped with piercing/sucking mouthparts and are widespread around the world. There are over 8000 types of plant scale, and they feed like (aphids and spider mites) on many different kinds of plants, shrubs, and trees. [source]
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.
So let’s try and give a general overview of growing Bougainvillea, its care, blooming, light, water, soil, origin and more…
Just how important are garden hand tools? Well, you wouldn’t have much of a garden without them. Hand planting tools constitute the backbone of all gardening… they always have and always will. Unless you are planting and cultivating acres of ground, you will use gardening tools almost exclusively. Where Are Tools For Planting used? Your…
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.
Adding a stone garden path in the garden can accentuate, connect and tie the landscape together. You don’t need a pro for ideas for your garden walkway nor for its’ installation. Truth is that you you can use brick, which helps add character to your garden. Wood, tiles, stone, or mosaic create a special magical…
There are many good reasons to install landscape garden lighting in your garden. In this article, we will look at guiding your path, safety, enjoying the outdoors, beauty and even home value.
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…
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…
The list is an joint promotion of the Garden Council of Canada and the American Public Gardens Association. The list for 2017 (in alphabetical order) is: Chicago Botanic Garden (www.chicagobotanic.org); Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden (www.vancouverchinesegarden.com) ; Ethnobotanical Garden (www.quepasaoaxaca.com/jardin-etnobotanico-de-oaxaca/); Halifax Public Gardens (www.halifaxpublicgardens.ca); Hershey Gardens (www.hersheygardens.org); Reford Gardens (www.refordgardens.com); Las Ponzas (www.xilitla.org); Longue Vue House and Gardens (www.longuevue.com); San Diego Botanic Garden (www.sdbgarden.org); and Tucson Botanical Gardens (www.tucsonbotanical.org).
With a year of conferences, tests, trials and garden visits under our belts, we’re excited to tell you about the big ideas we think will be influencing the gardening world in the months ahead. Beyond popular colors and new varieties, big-picture themes always emerge on the world (gardening) stage that prompt designers and plant breeders to shift their work towards our changing needs. This year, most of what we see heading your way has to do with population, technology, cooperation over competition, and plants that solve problems. Keep reading to see what we’ve been taking note of!
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