Category: Plant Care

Protect Your Houseplants When Moving to a New Home

Tips to Protect Your Houseplants When Moving to A New Home Moving to a new home in a new city can be quite stressful on anyone. Packing everything you own isn’t an easy task. Then you have to worry about unpacking it and putting it [...]

Growing Houseplants in Water

Find Your Green Thumb: How to Grow Houseplants in Water (Hydroponics) If you’ve always wanted to have beautiful lush houseplants but wasn’t blessed with a green thumb, all you need to do is to throw out the dirt! For most plants, soil is basically a [...]

How To Keep Your Poinsettia Blooming Past Christmas

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Millions of Poinsettias join families everywhere for Christmas. Although, Poinsettias come in several color varieties, their festive red color just adds so much to holiday decorations. But, once Christmas is over, Poinsettia’s seem to lose their color and beauty and often just die.

While Poinsettias are considered a Christmas plant, they’re definitely not just disposable decorations. Given the proper care, Poinsettias can live year round. And, even after they’ve lost their brightly colored bracts, they will make a beautiful foliage plant for your home. Continue reading

How To Grow A Venus Fly Trap

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The Venus fly trap is perhaps the most well know carnivorous plant species. It’s an interesting conversation plant and an amazing predator to watch.  These plants produce a sweet nectar that lures their prey into the jaws of their traps. The traps are lined with [...]

How to Grow the Cast Iron Plant

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During the Victorian Era, the Cast Iron plant was one of the most popular houseplants. With it’s draping green leaves, it’s an ideal way to add a tropical flair to any room, although it isn’t a tropical plant. It’s available in both a dark green [...]

Successful Container Gardening

At one time, almost everyone had a large garden. Raising a garden full of fresh vegetables and fruits was the only way most people had to feed their family. With a constantly growing population and progress taking over much of the land, container gardening is [...]

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