For today’s Repotting Diaries, I’m working through some more of my houseplants that need a bit of a transformation. There’s a bit of propagation potting up to do and a couple...
If you time planting your chilies out just right, when nighttime temperatures are reliably warm (preferably above 18°C / 64°F), you can grow true monsters. Many novice growers plant...
Grow lights are designed to give plants more red and blue light for photosynthesis. Regular lights have only blue and yellow and almost no red. Grow lights also offer...
The sudden appearance of a mushroom almost always elicits a response. One moment the mushrooms are there, and often, nearly as fast, they are gone. Like an unexpected visitor,...
By mid-July, many gardens lose their momentum.
Spring’s exuberance has faded. Late-summer perennials are still gathering themselves. Foliage is doing the heavy lifting, but the...
A number of years ago RHS Chelsea Flower Show was filled with a new flower, Lysimachia atropurpurea ‘Beaujolais’. Grown among grasses, the foliage dissolves...
Botanical Name: Anthurium andraeanum Anthurium plant is among the best-known tropical flowers. Popular in tropical flower arrangements, Anthurium bouquets are often used in weddings...
Succulents love the great outdoors because of the abundance of sunlight. Unfortunately, not all gardens are blessed with bright sunshine and instead, are covered...
When cold weather hits, our houseplant routines change a lot. That’s especially true for ferns, which crave steady warmth and humidity. Maidenhair ferns, in...