4 Other Plants With Weird Foliage
I recently wrote a blog called 5 Plants with Weird Foliage and promised more. Here’s a second blog on theContinue Reading
Category: Houseplants
Don’t Kill House Spiders: Move Them to Your Houseplants!*
When you find a spider in your house, don’t kill it! Instead, put it on one of your houseplants. ThatContinue Reading
When a Houseplant Gets Frosted
Normally, you shouldn’t expose houseplants to frost. The vast majority are tropical plants, incapable of supporting even light freezes. AndContinue Reading
Newspaper Test for Houseplant Lighting
Although most of us have heard that human beings aren’t so great at seeing in the dark, we’re actually notContinue Reading
Should You Really Water Orchids With Ice Cubes?
In garden centers and box stores, you’ll often see orchids with a label suggesting to water them with ice cubes. JustContinue Reading
5 Plants With Weird Foliage
The whole point of a leaf is to collect sunlight and convert it via photosynthesis into sugars for the plant’sContinue Reading
Caffeine: A Powerful Organic Insecticide
Did you know that caffeine is an insecticide? Moreover, that the coffee plant (Coffea arabica and others) produces it inContinue Reading
Why Aren’t My Indoor Lemons Ripening?
Question: I bought a potted lemon tree this summer and it produced three lemons. However, they’re still green. TheContinue Reading
Ant Plants… Without the Ants
Did you know that some houseplants, maybe some you already grow, are actually “ant plants?” Myrmecophytes, to use the scientificContinue Reading
The Tough as Nails Houseplant Nobody Knows
I grow a lot of houseplants (over 300 different varieties), but one of the toughest is certainly the propeller plant,Continue Reading