Houseplant Care Guides
Practical, real-home plant care — watering, light, propagation, pests, and seasonal advice, reviewed by experienced indoor gardeners.
Cucumbers: The Plants That Cheat
Cucumbers (Cucumis sativus) are a favorite in summer gardens and kitchen tables, known for their crisp texture and refreshing flavor.
Growing Pilea
There are about 400 species, but only a few are grown as houseplants. However. these are of considerable merit, and very attractive as foliage plants.
Looking After Plants When You Go Away
It is easy enough, then, to care for our plants when we are able to give them regular attention, but what is to happen to them when we leave home for a holiday or for some other reason?
Everlasting Flower Arrangements: Techniques and Tips
Objects troves, things you find lying about, are a great aid to flower arrangements and can make decorative groups on their own or in combination with dried flowers, seed heads, and so on.
Growing Hardy Herbaceous Perennials
Plants which continue to live for a number of years irrespective of whether they flower or not, have a comparatively soft, as distinct from woody, growth, and are hardy enough to be grown outdoors…
Miniature Indoor Gardens
Any shallow container, from a soup plate upwards, could be used for this. Even baskets or wood boxes will do if lined with plastic or a double thickness of cooking foil.
Feeding Indoor Plants Optimally
After watering the next most important requirement is feeding. Although all potting composts, other than seed composts, contain fertilizers in varying strengths, sooner or later these are exhausted.
Feeding Your Indoor Plants the Right Amount
During the course of centuries, your indoor plant evolved and adapted in a natural environment.
Half Plant, Half Animal: The Curious Family of Fungi
In the last hundred years a great new science has grown up— the science of Mycology. A mycologist then is one who studies molds and other fungi.