How to Grow a Monster Leaf Paulownia
The paulownia (Paulownia tomentosa), also called princess tree, royal empress tree or foxglove tree, is theoretically a fairly tall, fast-growingContinue Reading
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Spring Snow: Just Let It Melt!
With spring finally underway (sort of!), it’s very tempting to try to get any remaining snow off our lawns and flower beds asContinue Reading
Trap Plants for Slugs
A trap plant—also known as a trap crop or a sacrificial crop—is a plant that you grow specifically to attractContinue Reading
Sniff Houseplants Before You Buy!
These days, horticulture seems to have taken a huge step backward. Garden centers now currently sell plants in “designer pots*,”Continue Reading
Fast and Easy Repotting
When repotting a plant, normally you would take the time to carefully inspect the roots, trim off a few dead ones,Continue Reading
Give Away Your Mower: There’s Now A Self-Mowing Lawn!
Researchers at the Aprilscherz Institute of Horticultural Technology of Wunschdenken, Germany, have announced the development of a self-mowing lawn grassContinue Reading
Is It Really Necessary to Emasculate Easter Lilies?
There’s a persistent and long-held belief that you have to remove the anthers (the orange structures that emerge from theContinue Reading
The Tall and Short of Tomatoes
Determinate and indeterminate are two terms you’ll often see applied to tomato plants (Solanum lycopersicum) and they cause a bitContinue Reading
Cactus Microchipped to Stymie Plant Rustlers
Officials in Saguaro National Park in Tucson, Arizona, have had to resort to microchipping some 1,000 specimens of the park’sContinue Reading
Plant More Than Milkweeds to Save Monarchs
In North America, the serious decline of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), the black-veined orange migratory butterfly that winters inContinue Reading