Introduction Every once in a while, a houseplant will outgrow its pot. When this happens, you have no choice but to repot it. However, the repotting process can be very stressful on plants so you need to make sure that you do everything just right to avoid killing the plant. Instructions Difficulty: Medium Steps Step Continue Reading …
The Watering Can
Introduction One of the most popular ways to kill a common houseplant is through improper watering. Fortunately, it is relatively easy to learn the proper way to water any of the common houseplants. Instructions Difficulty: Easy Steps Step 1: Learn about the plant. The first step to properly watering your houseplant is to learn what Continue Reading …
Leaf of a Different Color: More Houseplant I.D. Tips
The foliage of a plant basically refers to the leaves of a plant. A horticulturist might divide plants into flowering plants or foliage plants. However, that distinction can be confusing because many of the foliage plants do flower. If a plant is considered to be a foliage plant it is because the leaves of the Continue Reading …
Turn Over Your New Leaf: Houseplant Identification Tips
Probably the best way to identify a houseplant is through matching it to a picture in a book or on the web. There are plenty of websites and books that can help you do this. However, there might be cases where you are not able to match your plant to a picture. If this happens, Continue Reading …
Identifying Houseplants For Proper Care
As you probably already know, different plants require different kinds of care. Some like to be in the sun and some do better in the shade. Some need to drink a couple of times a week and some only need watering once a month. If you purchase your plant at a greenhouse or nursery, identification Continue Reading …
Growing And Flourishing Houseplant Basics
There is a wide variety of houseplants so they need a wide variety of care-giving. For example, some plants love lots of light, and some thrive in very little light. Some plants need lots of water, and some thrive with very little water. When you buy a houseplant there should be a little tag in Continue Reading …
Houseplant Identification Tips
If you get stuck with a houseplant that you cannot identify and the thing starts to die, you are really in trouble. The trouble is, unless you can identify the plant, you will not be able to look up how to care for the plant and you may just have to stand back and watch Continue Reading …
Tricks For Identifying Common Houseplants
If you need to identify an unknown houseplant you might find that the task is harder than it appears. The problem is that if you don’t know the name of the plant, you will be hard pressed to look it up by going through pictures. Hopefully this will help you identify your common houseplants without Continue Reading …
What Plant Is What?
There are several broad categories of houseplants that become easy to identify after you learn a few basics. You could study botany for years and not be able to identify every one of the different species but you can learn to identify the plants by the family they belong to. The Philodendrons—there are over 500 Continue Reading …