Articles related to "Plant Care"



Florida Plant Care --The Soil
Fertilizer management of South Florida's alkaline soil can help any gardener or landscaper improve plant care and create a lush tropical environment.
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After-Holidays' Poinsettia Care
Poinsettias: After-Holiday Care for this Christmas plant.
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Feng Shui Plants
Caring for house plants that purify your air and enhances your life goals.
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Florida Plant Care -- Winterizing
In warm climates such as South Florida, there's no better time to get your plants ready and healthy for winter than in the summer and early fall.
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I Want to Live! -- What that Sick Plant is Really Saying
Plants don't droop and dwindle out of spite. They are trying to send you some very specific languages about their needs. Here is a little key to some basic plant-talk.
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Kalanchoe Plant Care
Kalanchoes have long-lasting blooms and don't like too much sun or too much water, making them perfect, easy-care indoor plants.
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Orchid Plant Care - Humidity Levels
The specific humidity level an orchid needs depends on the type of plant, but here are general guidelines to optimize the health of your plant and coax it to flower.
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Orchid Plant Care - Light Levels
The amount of light an orchid needs depends on the type of plant, but here are general guidelines that will help optimize the health of your plant and coax it to flower.
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Orchid Plant Care - Temperature Range
Specific temperature requirements depend on the type of plant, but here are general guidelines to help the beginning orchid enthusiast maintain healthy plants.
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Orchid Plant Care Guide
This is your one-stop online orchid guide, with brief descriptions and links to a series of Suite101 articles on the basics of orchid cultivation.
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Plant Care Begins with Good Soil
The best care for flowers, vegetables or a lush green lawn begins with preparing the soil by digging in lots of organic matter down deep where plant roots wander.
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Plant Care While on Vacation
Summertime is when people go on vacation. If you have containers and potted plants around the house, learn how to keep them healthy while you are away.
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Winter Garden Tasks and Plant Care
Autumn and Winter months signal a dormant time in the garden but gardeners don't have to hibernate as well. These are fall and winter tasks to care for garden plants.
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The Plant Hospital
While children tend to houseplant patients in a plant hospital, they practice some basics of curative caregiving for all living things.
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Buy and Care for Organic Poinsettias
When the organic garden lies fallow in the winter, many gardeners rely on houseplants like poinsettias to extend their hobby into the winter months.
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Gardening With Confidence
The secret of successful gardening is having the confidence to have a go
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Grow This List of Perennial Plants
The Perennial Plant Association offers a list of dependable perennial plants for gardeners. The Geranium 'Rozanne' is the 2008 Perennial Plant of the Year winner.
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Holiday Houseplant Care
Holiday plants such as poinsettia and cactus are popular as decorations and gifts during the holiday season, but do you know how to care for them afterwards?
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Houseplant Lighting Guide
All plants need light to survive, but different plants need different levels of light. Here's a quick guide to determining the light levels in your home.
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How to Care for Poinsettias
Save poinsettias from post-holiday trash bins! These pretty plants can survive Christmas, thrive in sunny windows or southern gardens and be enjoyed for years to come.
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How to Plant a Bog Garden with Carnivorous Plants
Making a bog garden with carnivorous plants.
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Pruning for Plant Health
Proper pruning methods can increase fruit and flower production, and discourage diseases by increasing air circulation and allowing light to reach the plant.
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Repotting Your Houseplants
Houseplants need room to grow, just like we do. Here is a guide to help you decide if a plant needs to be repotted and how to do it.
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Saving Plant Seeds
Helpful advice for the begining seed saver on which plants to start with and how best to harvest, prepare and save the seeds.
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Fall is for Spring bulbs
After a long, cold winter there is nothing more exhilarating that the colors, scents, and beauty of spring flowering bulbs. Unfortunately, you can not go to the local garden center and buy spring flowers like you do annuals in May. Spring flowering bulbs must be planted in the ground in fall in order to flower in spring. Lucily, planting spring flowering bulbs is really easy, but following a few specific steps you can create a big splash which last many years.
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Flowering Begonia Ideas for Shade Gardens
Hardy, tuberous and cane begonias are plants for shady gardens. Learn about these flowering begonias and which are best outside or as houseplants.
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How to Fix Brown Tips on House Plants
There are a number of reasons why indoor plants develop brown tips on their leaves, often referred to as tip burn. These problems are usually quite easy to fix.
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Keeping Freshwater Aquarium Plants Healthy
What you can do to maintain a healthy planted freshwater aquarium by selecting proper equipment and performing routine maintenance.
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Small and Miniature Daylilies by Grace Stamile
Small and miniature Hemerocallis hybrids by Grace Stamile are excellent for daylily gardens in backyard spaces. These petite flowers add bold colors to containers.
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Sowing Mangetout and Podded Peas In Succession
Successive sowing of garden peas sugarsnap and mangetout will produce a constant supply of peas until early summer. Here's a guide to sowing peas in early spring.
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The Rubber Plant as an Ornamental House Plant
A very popular houseplant and easy to care for, the rubber plant is an ideal ornamental house plant and adds a welcome touch of greenery to any indoor area.
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Garden Books as Holiday Gifts
Those gardeners on your gift list are sure to love books. Whatever their gardening interest, there is a perfect book.
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How to Grow Snapdragon Plant Profile
Snapdragons are charming long-time favorites when it comes to flowering garden play-things. See how to grow and use snapgdragons in the garden and some popular cultivars.
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Plant Health Care- Holistically Speaking
A recent trend in the practice of arboriculture is the use of a holistic approach in the treatment of trees. This new approach, called "Plant Health Care", looks at the entire plant or tree in its environment with a special emphasis on the root system and soil.
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Dividing Up Household Chores: How Newlyweds or Roommates Can Keep a House Clean and Avoid Conflict
Assigning household duties can be difficult. Please remember to communicate household work.
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Grow Plants From Seed or Seedling
Some gardeners prefer to start vegetable and flower plants from seed. Others purchase young plants. Most growers do a little of both. Here are tips to help you decide.
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Growing Celeriac for Winter from Seed
Late winter/early spring sowing of celeriac seed will deliver mature vegetables to eat in winter. Here's a guide to setting seed, planting out and cultivating celeriac.
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THE FASCINATING WORLD OF EUPHORBIAS
Euphorbias are an easy to care for succulent.
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The Houseplant Nook
How to grow healthy, happy houseplants and always have a green thumb.
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Two Books for Houseplant Lovers
Two books I would recommend to anyone who loves to grow houseplants.
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Artists and Musicians at Hocking Hill's LilyFest
Artists and musicians gather near Rockbridge for LilyFest. This educational garden festival is held in the Hocking Hills region of Ohio.
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Butterfly Gardening for the Whole Family
Everyone loves a butterfly, but kids are particularly drawn to the marvelous process of metamorphosis. Follow these easy steps for bringing the magic home this spring.
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Companion Planting With Poppy and Iris
Oriental poppies and tall bearded iris are excellent companion plants in a garden. These perennial plants begin as spring flowering plants but continue to early summer.
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Garden Fun for Kids with Special Needs
Spring is a great time to teach the child with special needs about the basics of plant care and growth. His self esteem grows as he learns responsibility and science.
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Growing and Caring for Elephant Ear Bulbs
Elephant ear plants add a dramatic accent to any landscape. Their colors range from bright green to purple and black and they take little care after planted.
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Growing Garden Plants from Seed
Many types of vegetables, herbs and flowers are very easy to grow from seed. You can save money and find a larger variety to choose from when you start your own.
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GROWING GESNERIACEAE HYDROPONICALLY
Growing Gesneriads in hydroponic units is both challenging and rewarding. Learn about the care of these plants in either an ebb-and-flow or wicked system.
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How to Arrange a Home Exchange
Exchanging a home with someone else in a dream location overseas has countless advantages.
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How to Give Your Houseplants the Right Light
All plants need light to survive, but different plants need different levels of light. Here's a quick guide to determining the light levels in your home.
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How to Grow Strawberries in a Growbag
Growbag cultivation of strawberries saves work and produces good crops of tasty fruit from the smallest garden or patio, or even a sunny balcony.
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