All About the Mother’s Day Rose
Happy Mother’s Day! I hope that all the mothers among my readers receive the attention they deserve from their children and grandchildren today,Continue Reading
Category: Gift plants
The Delicate Art of Getting Easter Lilies to Bloom… At Easter!
Easter is one of the year’s most important holidays. Since the beginning of the Christian era, Easter has represented theContinue Reading
Getting Your Christmas Plants to Rebloom
There is nothing wrong with tossing a Christmas plant into the compost after it has finished flowering if you don’tContinue Reading
Bring ‘Em Back Alive
Shopping for Plants in Cold Weather It’s probably more tempting to buy a beautiful potted plant in the winter thanContinue Reading
Have a Holly Christmas!
Common holly (llex aquifolium) has a long history of use as a Christmas symbol. You most often see it onContinue Reading
Make Your Christmas Plants Last
Who doesn’t enjoy decorating their home with beautiful living plants for the holiday season: poinsettias, amaryllis, Christmas cactus, and soContinue 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
One Living Christmas Tree That Really Thrives Indoors
Most of the “living Christmas trees” sold today really don’t do well indoors. (For more information on that subject,Continue 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
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