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
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Give a Gardening Book This Christmas
Looking for a Christmas gift for a gardener? Why not a gardening book? And why not, while we’re at it,Continue 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
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
How to Keep your Mini-Poinsettia Alive
For the past few years now, mini-poinsettias (Euphorbia pulcherrima) have been popping up here and there in garden centers inContinue Reading
Crabapples with Winter Interest
Crabapples (Malus) are very popular small trees, especially grown, with good reason, for their beautiful spring flowers, but most doContinue Reading
8 Ways to Kill an Orchid
Orchids often flower on and on for months. Worse yet, they tend to bloom again when treated too well. ThatContinue Reading