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If you’re like me, storing seeds is a necessity. You may have particular flowers that you grow every year like geraniums, or a favorite kind of kale or watermelon that …
Read moreStoring Seeds: Ways Of Preserving Seeds For Future Planting
The humble marigold is often the favorite flower of vegetable gardeners, and there’s great reason: marigolds help to keep many different pests at bay. They flower near-continually from late spring …
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Grown either as a loquat tree or a shrub, this fruiting plant is an interesting one. A relative of the rose, Eriobotrya japonica makes small fruits which taste like a blend …
Read moreLoquat Tree: How To Grow Tiny, Tangy And Uncommon Asian Fruits
Have you ever wanted to grow a lucky plant? Aglaonema, also referred to as the Chinese Evergreen, is considered to be a luck-bringer in China. Native to China and the …
Read moreAglaonema Plant: Chinese Evergreen Plants You Need To Grow
Have you ever been browsing in the succulent section of a garden center, and discovered a pot with nothing more than a pair of flat-topped rocks in it? If so, …
Read moreLithops: How To Grow And Care For Living Stone Plants
Brightly-colored in shades ranging from common pinks and reds through deep dusky blues and violets, geraniums are a common sight in most gardens today. The term “geranium” itself is a …
Read moreGeraniums: Grow These Prolific & Colorful Flowers In Your Garden
Have you ever wanted to grow fruit, but didn’t want to give up space in the yard for one of those heirloom apple trees? Even a crab apple might be …
Read moreEspalier Fruit Trees: Ideas To Pack Big Fruit Harvests Into Small Spaces
Have you ever grown a rattlesnake plant? How about a peacock plant? A zebra plant? All of these are forms of calathea! Let’s explore the delightful and fun world of …
Read moreCalathea: Caring For The Rattlesnake Plant, Zebra Plant and More
Arbor Day is celebrated nationally in the United States on the last Friday of April each year, although individual states celebrate it at different times. So in honor of National …
Read moreEcotherapy: How Trees Make You Healthier & How You Can Help Them
African violets, also known as Saintpaulias, are associated with motherhood, and are a traditional gift to Mom for Mother’s Day. They’re also popular for Valentine’s Day and for Easter. But …
Read moreAfrican Violets: Sensational Saintpaulias You Can Grow At Home
Named for their bottle brush-shaped flowers, this plant can grow as a bottle brush tree or a shrub. Originating in Australia, there are around 50 species of bottle brush plants, …
Read moreBottle Brush Tree: How To Grow And Care For Callistemons & Melaleucas
The showy and stunning blooms of the tiger lilly flower are well worth the effort, and for good reason. Originating in Asia, tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium, also called Lilium tigrinum) …
Read moreTiger Lily: How To Grow & Care For Lilium Lancifolium