Growing herbs is so rewarding! Watching your plants grow from tiny starts to full grown plants… the aroma flowing through your kitchen… being able to clip off fresh herbs for your recipes whenever you want. It is definitely worth the time and effort but if your plants don’t seem to be growing or living up [...]
What Is Your Container Gardening IQ?
01/09/2013 by Leave a Comment
Nowadays even the city dweller can grow their dream garden without much fuss. One’s dream can be fulfilled by using almost any cotainer as a planter, as long as it has holes for drainage. Gardening in pots gives you the delights of creative landscaping, without the weekly mowing. But there are three things you need [...]
How to Encourage Houseplants To Flower
01/02/2013 by Leave a Comment
There are some houseplants that flower profusely again and again with little care, and there are others that you chose because of their symbolic or glorious flowers, that only seem to grow more leaves. Houseplants have their origins from all over the world and need different conditions to get them to flower. The art of [...]
Create An Indoor Cactus Garden
12/20/2012 by Leave a Comment
If the graveyard of your indoor plants is booming, then you might want to create an indoor cactus garden for the brightly lit and sunny areas in your home. Many times cactus have a reputation for sitting in corners barely growing and getting dusty, or they are overwatered and literally suffocate, or ignored and shrivel [...]
Keep Your Christmas Tree For Life
11/26/2012 by Leave a Comment
I have to tell you, Christmas is definitely in the air in New York City. Everyday and everywhere, I see new Christmas displays rapidly covering the city. And today, I came across a wonderful and beautiful forest theme of Christmas trees. Each Christmas tree was only two to three feet tall, with a larger tree [...]
Flowering Bulbs for Christmas
11/17/2012 by Leave a Comment
Although the poinsettia and Christmas cactus have a traditional flavor in my own holiday decorating, I still experiment with flowering bulbs. In recent years, I’ve added the amaryllis to my décor along with the sweetly scented narcissus, known as paperwhites. The amaryllis is spectacular, with trumpet shaped blooms in red, pink, salmon and white. The [...]
Good Tidings With Christmas Plants
11/16/2012 by Leave a Comment
While the outdoors may lack the rainbow of robust colors in the midst of winter for most areas, you can bring a touch of freshness, brightness and cheer to your home with Christmas plants. The Christmas cactus and poinsettia are probably the most favored Christmas plants because of their blaze of colors, but there are [...]
Grow Your Own Ferns From Spores
07/15/2012 by Leave a Comment
Have you ever noticed on a venture through a forest or on a trek to a tropical climate, how beautiful and luscious the ferns are, and wish you could multiply and grow your own ferns from spores at home? It really isn’t that difficult, but unlike most garden plants, ferns don’t reproduce by bearing flowers, [...]
Tips For Successful Cutting Propagation
07/11/2012 by Leave a Comment
Regardless of the type of cutting you try, there are some basic principles you need to keep in mind. Below, you’ll find some tips for successful cutting propagation. Be sure your cuttings do not dry out. Take the cuttings early in the day while the plant cells are still swollen. Use plants that are healthy [...]
