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Distinctive Foliage Colorful Houseplants
Shop for those with Distinctive Foliage since they Lend Needed Color to Winter Living then Choose those Suited to Your Decor with an Eye to Size, Form, Color and Texture...
The Orchid Pseudobulbs
The pseudobulb, a green, banana-like object at the base of the leaves, is a very interesting and vital part of the orchid plant. In it the food and moisture obtained from the air and water (the orchid's sources of nourishment) are stored....
The Tool For Controlling Weeds, Nematodes And Fungi
The age of "temporary soil sterilization" or "soil fumigants" which can be safely used by the home gardener has long passed. These chemicals were designed to make your gardening easier and more enjoyable by killing weed seeds, certain plant disease o...
The Soil Doctor – What Is In The Dirt?
If your house plants are not growing well, here are a few generalizations to help decide whether or not the problem originates in the soil mixture. An over-heavy mix (contains too much clay-like soil, not enough humus or sand) packs hard in the pot, ...
The #1 Houseplant Destruction
Plants need water to help carry food from roots to the leaves and stems, and to keep leaves from dehydrating. On the other hand, there is serious danger in too much watering. If pots or roots stand in water, rot may be a quick result. Generally it is...
3 Colorful Garden Favorites To Brighten The Day
From the first curled stems that push through in spring to the star-shaped seed pods in late fall, Dictamnus albus (Dittany, Fraxinella, Burning Bush or Gas Plant) is ornamental....
Nature’s Regulator 10 Degree Temperature Drop
Hyacinths, Paper Whites, and the prepared narcissus such as the reds can be started any time now. The first two do well in plain water but I think the easier method is to plant them in bowls filled with fine gravel. The bowls should be kept filled wi...
Roses In November – Not To Late To Start The Work
With the coming of "winter" rains, arrival of bulbs in the stores and the beginning of the dormant season in nurseries, November becomes an action-packed month for Far West gardeners. It's time, also, to transplant overgrown shrubs and trees. In the ...
Two Methods Of Over-Wintering Chrysanthemums
Too often called a hardy perennial, the garden chrysanthemum has not proven to be so in the North, especially the far North. Some gardeners claim that their plants have lived for several years, then along came one of the so-called "test winters.- and...
How Often Should I Water My House Plants?
What can you do to increase humidity for your houseplants? There are several ways to increase the relative humidity around indoor plants. You can mist or douse the foliage with water, or hang water-filled pans on the radiators. A hot-air furnace can ...
Growing Plants In A Good Temperature
What is the best temperature for growing house plants? Here again, consider each plant's preference, and also the relation of other cultural factors, like humidity. Some plants prefer to grow cooler than average house temperatures, some need more war...
Protecting New Evergreen And Rose Planting
English children chant the phrase "Remember, remember the 5th of November" - Guy Fawkes Day to them - but we could change that to "Remember, remember the chrysanthemums in November." At any rate my greenhouse is full of bloom right now and I hope you...
Daylight And Sunlight Do Houseplants Care?
Lighting for indoor houseplant, what does that mean? In a nutshell, it means that good light - and enough of it - is an important consideration in your plans for lasting effects with indoor plants. If you want to use vines for example on inside walls...
Modern Gloxinia Hybrids Find A Father
Albert Buell hardly knew a petunia from a pansy. Today, he's the proud father of the modern gloxinia judged by experts to be among the finest available anywhere in the world....
Fruit Trees – Dual Purpose Plants
Wildflowers succeed best when planted soon after the November rains start. If you're trying to "tame" a vacant lot by naturalizing it with wildflowers, this is the right time in Pacific Coast gardens. Watch them after the winter rains as they spring ...
New Additions With Prepping Rose Beds
Roses are best planted in late November, December and January. Many new varieties are not ready for shipment until after the first of the year. For the Lower South special attention should be given to the preparation of the soil. Roses don't like ver...
A Condition To Destroy Plants
Overwatering the soil does not compensate for lack of atmospheric humidity. When I advise people who bring me samples of house plants grown where the relative humidity of the air is too low, the common reply is: "But I water the plant every day." Thi...
The Start Of The Southern Vegetables
Frost is in the air in the Middle and Upper South. This is the time to think seriously about planting the hundreds of different kinds of shrubs, trees and fruits, for after the middle of November these plants make their appearance in seed and garden ...
The Pleasing Lilium Amabile
One of the stout-hearted lilies found in Korea thriving among grasses and low-growing shrubs was Lilium amabile. Bulbs were first available in 1905. Amabile means pleasing or lovely. The single thing not pleasing is the somewhat offensive odor of the...
Planting Arrangement Like The Couch
The "modular" concept conceived for contemporary architecture and landscaping is largely responsible for the speed with which container gardening has spread joyously from its original California home across the country. It has the economy, practicali...
The Hiding Cyclamen Under Douglas Fir
In my garden one of the joys of autumn is Cyclamen neapolitanum, a small hardy relative of the larger florist's cyclamen. Dainty, soft pink to pale lavender pink flowers appear like a flock of butterflies in late August or early September and last un...
Permanent Plant Planters
Like their indoor counterparts, permanent outdoor planters may be part of an architect's design for a new house or for remodeling an old one. They may be a landscape architect's device for improving or completing the garden picture, or the individual...
Applying Illegal Aligns To Plants
At several keys ports in these United States groups of devoted federal employees put in long hours of detective work to protect American gardeners, nurserymen, florists and farmers from insect pests and diseases coming from foreign lands. Their job i...
Mix Container Planting
Many container gardens are planted like a small-scale flower border, with tall plants in the background, lower ones in front, medium growers to fill in between. It's important here to avoid a hodgepodge of too many different varieties without restric...
Temperature An Obvious House Plant Matter To Consider
Factors other than light affect the well-being of foliage plants grown in pots, tubs and other containers. To insure success you must make every effort to make the whole environment agreeable. Attention to one factor will not do....
Vines As Garden Accents
Walls and fences of all dimensions are erected for any of many reasons - to define property boundaries, to create a center of privacy, to connect two areas or levels, even to break up small areas and make gardens seem larger. Fences can be used in pl...
The Change And Landscape Flexibility Offered By Container Gardening
In a pure sense, "container gardening" connotes a completely new concept created for, or evolving out of, contemporary architecture and its bold use of clean lines and unadorned space. These settings both benefit by and set off a display of plants, b...
Japanese Garden Material – Chosen With Great Care
Water and Water Courses are always desired in the Japanese garden, but as it is not always possible to have a pool or river, a dry brook or dry pool may be substituted. These are exactly what the name implies - a channel in the first instance, a depr...
Thanksgiving Time Activities
Since I was a youngster - now many years ago - the face of Thanksgiving has undergone a great change in this good land of ours. But the spirit, under all the modern day camouflage, remains the same. We have quite as much for which to be thankful as h...
Japanese Gardens A Story Book On Their Own
Each garden tells a story - It is necessary to think simply and very directly and naturally in order to arrive at such a truly naive result as is sought and intended in Japanese gardening. It is necessary to think in terms of meaning as well as in te...
