How to Water an Orchid
Photo: gardenerdy.com Watering houseplants is always a bit complicated, even more so with orchids, whose thick leaves don’t react muchContinue Reading
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Timetable for Sowing Annuals Indoors
Start gathering your materials: it will soon be time to start this year’s annuals indoors! Photo: The Rusted Garden, www.youtube.comContinue Reading
2019 Year of the Pumpkin
Every year, the National Garden Bureau, a non-profit organization promoting the pleasures of home gardening, selects one annual, one bulb, oneContinue Reading
Can You Get A Paperwhite to Rebloom?
Sometimes you can get a Paperwhite to rebloom! Photo: www.longfield-gardens.com If you’ve been gardening for a while, you’ve certainly heardContinue Reading
Garden Your Way to Health
Ill.: clipart-library.com It seems pretty logical that gardening burns calories. It is, after all, a physical activity. Even leafing throughContinue Reading
The World’s Oldest Plants
Photo: www.tes.com What plant is the world’s oldest? I suspect the very oldest is probably out there somewhere in theContinue Reading
What is “porous pavement”?
And How Does It Help Soils Capture And Clean Water? The following article, by Adrian Gallo of Oregon State University,Continue Reading
Looking for Fragrant Cyclamens
Some cyclamens are scented, others not at all. Ill.: Buntysmum, Pixabay & www.clipartroo.com, montage: laidbackgardener.blog Question: Last year, I bought aContinue Reading
Succulent Plants: Not So Yummy!
Succulents are not “succulent” in the sense of “delicious.” Ill.: clipart-library.com, montage: laidbackgardener.blog Beginning gardeners are often confused about succulentContinue Reading
A Visual History of Lawns
The following infographic was produced by Greenpal and republished with permission. Enjoy!