If you are looking for a book or books to help you identify common houseplants, here are a few of the newer ones that you might consider. Ortho’s All About Houseplants by Marilyn Rogers (Editor). This book was reviewed by three Amazon.com customers and received an average of four out of five stars. Besides describing Continue Reading …
Getting A Good Start From Your Common Houseplant
Introduction Getting starts from one of your houseplants is also called propagation. Propagation is very much like helping your plants to have babies because you take a piece from the plant, replant it, and it grows up to a new adult plant. Instructions Difficulty: Moderate Steps Step 1: Determine what type of plant you are Continue Reading …
Green Thumb Challenged? You Can Keep Your Plants Alive
Introduction If you identify with “not having a green thumb”, chances are pretty good that you have killed a plant or two in your life. That’s the bad news; the good news is that you don’t have to kill plants, even if you have a brown thumb. You can keep your houseplants alive by just 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 …
Where To Find Die Hard Houseplants
If you are looking for hard to kill houseplants, look as far away from fancy nurseries and greenhouses as you can. The places that you will find hard to kill houseplants are common places, like supermarkets and trailer parks. Oh, you can probably get some seeds off eBay or some exotic plant website and those 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 …
Die Hard Houseplants For The Brown Thumb
If you weren’t blessed with a green thumb but still want to have houseplants, these plants are for you! Here is a list of some of the easiest plants to care for. Just add water, and they should live and even thrive. You don’t even have to remember to water them that regularly; these plants Continue Reading …
Tips For Finding Die Hard Plants
One of the great things about hard to kill houseplants is that they also tend to have lots of babies. The combination of lots of these plants (cause none of them die) and plenty of babies mean that finding hard to kill houseplants is an easy task. Here are some tips that will help you 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 …
Plants To Avoid If You Don’t Have A Green Thumb!
Some plants are easier to grow than others. For example, some people will tell you that orchids are not hard to grow. They will then explain that they are not hard to grow if you prune them, keep the humidity just so, and feed them properly. To me, that is a fussy plant. If you Continue Reading …