A healthy jade has erect stems and firm foliage that points outward, upward, or slightly downward. But when a plant is under stress, the young, soft stems may droop, and the foliage may hang limply, like fallen dominoes. The jade plant, Crassula ovata, is prized for its glossy, thick, evergreen foliage. Long-lived, water-wise, and low maintenance, it’s no wonder this South African succulent is prized as a garden specimen in Zones 11 and 12, and as a houseplant everywhere....

3 reasons to start your own seeds indoors: Diversity – Buying seeds from mail order catalogues or local nurseries, and then starting the seeds yourself, allows you to choose from a MUCH wider selection of varieties. For example, there are thousands of tomatoes available to gardeners through seed companies. But, if you rely on your local garden centres for your seedlings, you’ll be choosing from just a few dozen varieties, at best....

Required Materials Succulents Hand Glove Trowel Bowl Cling Film White Cement 1. Wrap the Bowl Cover the inside of the bowl with cling film. 2. Mix White Cement Pour some water and white cement in the bowl and mix it with your masonry trowel (or you can use garden trowel). Keep mixing until you make a thick fine paste. 3. Fill Cement in Glove The hand glove will work as a mold....

In this article you’ll learn not only which veggies should usually be planted indoors and which outdoors, but why, so that you can make a well-informed decision for any variety you decide to grow in the future. You have your seed packets, you have your seed starting essentials, and you have a garden plan – sounds like you are ready to plant and grow a garden! But are you sure you know which seeds can go directly into your garden soil, and which will do better if you start them indoors?...

Just as they require the right lighting and watering for healthy growth, plants from the Spathiphyllum genus also need a consistent supply of nutrients to thrive. Peace lilies are beautiful, easy-care houseplants with an abundance of lush, deep green leaves and pretty, flag-like white spathes that are often confused for flowers. But to ensure their vibrant health with plentiful spathes, they need to be fertilized throughout the growing season. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....

Information Does your peace lily have brown tips and you aren't sure why? There are several reasons that this can happen. In this article, gardening expert and houseplant enthusiast Madison Moulton examines the most common reasons why peace lilies get brown tips, how to fix them and how to prevent it from happening in the first place! By Madison Moulton Last updated: October 26, 2022 | 8 min read Whether you received one as a gift or pick them up often to join your houseplant collection, most indoor gardeners have at least one Peace Lily in their homes....

In this article, I’m going to introduce you to my 13 favorite yarrow varieties you are sure to love. Not just another pretty face in a lush and lazy garden, yarrow (Achillea) earns its keep in the worst soils with the least amount of water. If you’ve got barren areas crying out for color, it’s yarrow to the rescue! This hardy flowering perennial thrives in USDA Hardiness Zones 3 to 9....

If you are a fussy plant parent who always forgets to take care of his green friends, then here are some beautiful Succulents that Don’t Need Water Before a Month that you can grow without worrying about maintaining them! Here are the easiest to grow Succulents Succulents that Don’t Need Water Before a Month All succulents are capable of tolerating droughts due to their fleshy foliage that helps them in conserving water....

When I was in high school, I participated in “career day” with the rest of my class, shadowing a person who had the career that I hoped to have in the future… Table of Contents The career I chose? Landscape architect. I learned so much from my day shadowing. That day, the seed was planted that sprouted into my love of gardening. Although I’m not a landscape architect today, I still have an affinity for the profession and consume books about the topic as often as possible....

With these Succulent Hanging Garden Ideas, you can creatively display the plants using a small space of your home and garden! Here are the best succulents you can grow for hanging baskets Succulent Hanging Garden Ideas 1. Colorful Succulent Hanging Basket 2. Different Succulents in a Suspended Bowl 3. A Succulent Ball! 4. Trailing Succulents in Hanging Buckets 5. Colorful Bunch of Succulents! 6. Hanging Wooden Planter 7. Succulents in White Pots 8....

Shrubs Are you struggling to keep your hydrangeas blue this season? It actually all comes down to the type of hydrangea you own, and soil science. In this article, gardening expert and hydrangea expert Jill Drago provides six simple steps for keeping those beautiful blue blooms! By Jill Drago Last updated: July 12, 2022 | 5 min read When I close my eyes and daydream about a beautifully blooming hydrangea, the image that comes to my mind is ‘endless sky blue‘ with big balls of flowers peeking through a white fence....

1. DIY Portable Potting Bench Create a potting bench for your garden if you’ve got an unused folding table and a dresser drawer. The step by step tutorial is available here to follow! 2. Old Tire Planter Get an old tire to create a unique planter that can beautify your front porch. You’ll need a few other easily available supplies. The complete project is here! 3. Strawberry Tower Out of Recycled Materials Create this DIY strawberry tower with a reservoir out of recycled materials....

By Erin Marissa Russell Ready to attract lots of mason bees to pollinate your garden? We’ve got the best tips and tricks for how to roll out the red carpet for these little bees. If you’ve never heard of mason bees, suffice it to say that one mason bee does the work of 100 honeybees when it comes to pollination. That’s because of differences in the way they pollinate. While honeybees make little packages of pollen that they affix to their back legs, mason bees carry pollen all over their fuzzy little bodies, so they pollinate every flower they stop at....

QUESTION: How do I plant potatoes? Do you cut seed potatoes? Do you have to cut potatoes before planting? -Tom L. ANSWER: These are two common questions when it comes to planting seed potatoes and whether or not gardeners should cut them. If your seed potatoes are especially small, you can plant them whole, but most of the time, seed potatoes should be cut into chunks that have at least two eyes each....

Pothos plants have a special place in my heart, because I grew up surrounded by them. My mother loves indoor plants, and this has always been one of her favorites. In fact, my very first houseplant was a pothos. I don’t remember it, but my mom likes to tell the story about how I brought a few rooted cuttings home from nursery school one day. Those small cuttings flourished under her loving care and, over the years, have turned into dozens of new plants (which she keeps trying to pawn off on me, haha!...

A sweet little fruit that looks like small watermelons but in size is similar to grapes, with a flavor of cucumber dipped in lime! Let’s learn How to Grow Cucamelon and relish its exotic taste! Botanical Name: Melothria scabra Other Names: Mouse melon, Mexican sour gherkin, Mexican miniature watermelon, Mexican sour cucumber, and Pepquinos. USDA Zones: 8-11 Check out our article on growing Kiwano Melons here! Propagating Cucamelons As cucamelon plants are not very popular, finding their seeds at a local store or nursery may be difficult....

By Matt Gibson Flowering tobacco is a lovely ornamental flowering plant that brings color and fragrance to the home garden. Its fuzzy, sticky leaves and stems are capped with clusters of potent, sweet-smelling blossoms. Flowers appear from summer to fall. Depending on the variety, flowering tobacco flowerheads open in the late afternoon to late evening. These plants are fast growers and should be planted during the springtime after the last frost in your area has passed....

Most varieties are hardy to Zones 7 or 8, though some types can tolerate cooler weather. We’ll offer some specifics shortly. Allium ampeloprasum var. porrum The leek looks like a steroid-fueled green onion. It’s considerably fatter than a scallion, at one to three inches wide, and about twice as tall. But it totally wears the same outfit, albeit in a bigger size. It is in fact related to onions, offering a mild, sweet, onion-like flavor that is used to season any number of dishes – more on that later in this article....

By Matt Gibson & Erin Marissa Russell All About Cyclamen Cyclamen is a small, tender, tuberous perennial plant native to the eastern Mediterranean region. The plant has small, fragrant blooms that sit atop raised stems that rise above its heart-shaped foliage. During the summer months, it dies back to its tuberous root system, then bounces back to life each fall. Its half-inch to three-quarter-inch blooms come in different shades of white, pink, red, and purple....

Root rot is one of the most damaging ailments our houseplants can suffer from, and one of the most common. An infection can destroy a plant literally from the ground up. It spreads quickly, and without prompt action it’s soon too late. Prevention is the best policy, but the disease can be stopped if caught early. In this article, we’ll explain what root rot is and how it happens, how to diagnose and treat it … and, most importantly, how to prevent it....