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Breakthroughs in breeding practices have turned the once-elusive orchid into one of the most popular gifted plants. The abundant blooms are surprisingly durable and will last for months. But once …
How to Get Your Orchid to Re-Bloom Read More
The most important thing you can do to get your Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera) to bloom each year is to ensure it goes through a proper dormant phase with shorter days …
My Surprising Fertilizer For A Super Blooming Christmas Cactus Every Year Read More
Learning how to propagate your plants is easily one of the most rewarding (and cheap!) ways to multiply your collection. Dividing, grafting, layering, and cutting are among the horticultural skills …
5 Easy To Find And Scientifically Backed Natural Rooting Hormones Read More
This post has been updated to reflect the discontinued use of Tradescantia’s former common name, ‘Wandering Jew’, with its racial beginnings, to its new common names of ‘Wandering Dude’, ‘Inch …
Inch Plant, Spiderwort or Wandering Dude Care & Propagation – The Perfect Houseplant Read More
I have three large aloe vera plants, two that are pups from the main plant. They all share a big terra cotta bowl on the end of a coffee table, …
How to Propagate Aloe Vera By Transplanting Aloe Vera Pups Read More
When you think of blooming houseplants, I’ll bet you don’t think of snake plants. Yet, the recently reclassified Sansevieria trifasciata does, in fact, flower. They can bloom, usually once a …
How to Get a Snake Plant to Flower Read More
Gardening is a beautiful way of making more space for nature in our lives. Many gardeners want to grow more plants that add food and shelter for wildlife. But a …
How to Take Stem Cuttings – Fill Your Backyard with Free Plants Read More
Lavender is a garden staple, not only for its classic, fragrant flowers but also for its ease of care. So, when your seemingly impossible-to-kill lavender plant starts dying, it can …
6 Reasons Why Your Lavender Is Dying (& How To Fix It) Read More
Stunning and unusual, I give you – the rhubarb flower. I’ll bet I can guess why you’re here. You went out to your rhubarb patch with pie on your mind. …
Why Is My Rhubarb Flowering & What Should I Do? Read More
This is one of a few hundred of the newest tenants in my garden. If you’ve got an aphid problem you’re looking to fix, you’ve probably read that ladybugs are …
How To Release Ladybugs Into Your Garden (& Why You Should) Read More