Landscape Lighting - Add Security and Accents to Your Home and Landscape
Landscaping lights add a touch of color to your gardens. By using landscape lights in your yard, you not only add security to your home, as well as add beauty and style. You can add lights to any landscape design. Installing solar lights in... Read More...
Mandevilla Over the Winter - A Houseplant It’s Not!
Mandevilla is a beautiful plant which shares it’s hot pink and red flowers with many of us all through the summer months. Some like to keep it running up a trellis or cover and arbor with it. Whatever and however you want to show off... Read More...
Kalanchoe Gastonis bonnieri
A Kalanchoe donkey ear is a unique shrub plant that is native to Madagascar. This interesting plant is also known as Donkey Ears, Giant Kalanchoe, Good Luck Leaf, Leaf of Life, Life Plant, Miracle Leaf, Palm Beachbells, Sprout Leaf Plant,... Read More...
Christmas Cactus - Propagation Care and Growing
The most important disease causing problem for Christmas cactus is caused by fungus - Fusarium oxysporum. Stem lesions are water soaked initially, and rapidly enlarge to reddish brown areas which appear sunken or mushy. The fungus spores... Read More...
Neoregelia ‘Martin’
Neoregelia martin is a new and unique cultivar of Neoregelia. It is an attractive foliage plant that is loved by many because of its green and white leaves that are uniformly-arranged in rosettes. Each rosette is about 25 inches in width and each... Read More...
Chinese Evergreen - Versatile Widely Used Houseplant
Question: Can I plant my Chinese evergreen outside in a planter bed where it’s shady. I know it’s sold as an indoor houseplant but I’ve seen some used outside at a mall in Florida when we were there. Lil, Minnesota Answer:... Read More...
Ficus Benjamina Monique ‘Lattice’
This image of a 14 Ficus Benjamina Monique with multiple plants weaved together making the trunk of this ficus tree look like a "lattice". Ficus trees can be used in many, many forms. Here’s another form called a standard. A “standard”... Read More...
A Quick Guide to Choosing and Planting Bulbs
Bulbs are the fleshy underground protuberances of leaves, stems or roots. Actually, “bulb” is a generic term, and some of these underground protuberances, all of which will grow into full plants, are more correctly called “corms”... Read More...
Landscaping Lights Uplighting, Downlighting, Moonlighting Illuminate Areas for Safety, Security and Aesthetics
Landscape lighting could be one of the least understood and overlooked areas of a home landscape design. The popularity of outdoor landscape lighting continues to grow. Very often you see outdoor lights commonly know as Malibu landscape lights... Read More...
Dracaena Marginata - The Color Magenta
The Dracaena marginata has been grown as a house plant for decades. It’s also grown in about every configuration and pot size possible. You can find rooted tips from 3 inch pots all the way up to giant character specimens filling 200... Read More...
