Your Guide to House Plants and Indoor Plant Care...
Our goal is to help you learn more about house plants care, avoid mistakes, introduce new plant varieties and help you enjoy plants indoors and outside more. We'll also share the benefits of indoor plants along the way like their ability to clean the air.
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Fungicides a Part of a Disease Control Program
Fungicides should be only one part of a disease control program. A relatively small proportion...
Insects and Diseases When to Spray Plants
Insects and diseases are a constant menace to garden plants and so a good practice to follow is,...
Latest in Landscaping
The Sweet Rocket – A Faithful Perennial
Every spring someone is sure to ask me, “How do you make your phlox bloom so early?”...
Japanese Andromeda
Few shrubs can match Japanese Andromeda, particularly in elegance and beauty all the year ’round....
Garden Snails
Snails will eat their way through anything they enjoy, and often nibble on plants just enough to...
Indoor House Plants
Transplanting Small African Violet Plants
When my little plants became a bit over 1/4 inch high, I prepared to pot them. I scrubbed two-inch...
African Violets Without A Green Thumb
I believe African violets have frustrated more people than all other house plants put together....
African Violets – Unusual Species
The African violet has long been a favorite indoor houseplant, finding it’s home in many...
Lawn Care and Maintenance
Drought-Resistant Grass and Lawn
This is not the occasion to trace the history of drought resistant grass and lawn-making through...
Electric Lawn Mower – Going Green
Question: We need a new lawn mower and like the idea of getting an electric mower to reduce the...
Snowblowers and Plows – Making Snow Removal Simplicity
If you’ve ever had a friend tell you in a joke that you’re “too old to shovel...
Specific House Plants and Their Care
Peace Lily Care – Spathiphyllum
Peace Lily Care – Spathiphyllum is one of the most popular grown indoor house plants grown...
Dracaena
The Dracaena family of house plants make up one of the best selections for floor plants for use...
Bromeliads
Bromeliads – These “air plants” make wonderful house plants for long term color...
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