Make a Christmas Tree Decoration from a Wood Slice
Here’s an interesting idea I saw on the Internet. Rather than throwing out the slice of wood that results fromContinue Reading
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3 Simple Tips to Make Your Christmas Tree Last
If you’ll be putting up a cut Christmas tree in your home this Christmas, there are 3 main things youContinue Reading
Frosted Fern: A Christmas Mystery Plant
Among the plants sold during the Holiday season, the so-called “frosted fern” is certainly the most mysterious, because not onlyContinue Reading
Can You Root a Christmas Tree?
Can you get a Christmas tree to put out roots? Can you root a Christmas tree? The question wasContinue Reading
What to Do with Forgotten Bulbs
So, you bought a few packs of spring-flowering bulbs (tulips, daffodils, crocuses, hyacinths, etc.) last fall, intending to plant themContinue Reading
How to Tell if your Houseplant Lacks Light?
The life of the indoor gardener would be much easier if plants could tell us when they were not happyContinue Reading
Christmas Plants Too Good to be True
Plant growers have long used different artifices to make Christmas plants more attractive and therefore saleable – ribbons, tinsel, colorfulContinue Reading
Horticultural Myth: Misting Your Houseplants
The myth that you should mist your houseplants daily throughout the winter has been circulating for a long, long time. IContinue Reading
Whatever Happened to Mistletoe?
I have fond memories of mistletoe from my childhood… make that more my teenage years. Naïve parents would hang aContinue Reading
The Leaf Vacuum Plant
Sometimes I think plants are misnamed. The terribly invasive Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica), which annihilates everything in its path, shouldContinue Reading