Flowering indoor plants are beautiful while they have blossoms, but there are often long waits between the occasional sprays of color. A great way to keep your indoor plant collection looking great throughout the year is to use showy foliage plants that can make a bold statement without flowers. Many tropical varieties are easy to…
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How To Make Plants Grow Faster? 7 Tested Strategies
Growing plants is a lot like baking a cake. You must have all the ingredients available, put everything together correctly, and then wait for the results. The trick is knowing how to get the mix right. Add the right amount of light, humidity, water, soil, and fertilizer, and put everything at the correct temperature, and…
What Plants Can I Grow In Water? 15 Beautiful And Beginner-Friendly Options
Most of us have heard the word hydroponics. It is a way of growing plants in a solution of water and nutrients. Of course, it’s not quite as straightforward as just adding water to any plant, but plenty of beginner-friendly plants can be grown successfully using this minimalistic method. No soil is involved at all,…
How Far Should LED Grow Lights Be From Plants? A Detailed Answer
Plant grow lights have opened up a whole new world for indoor gardeners. Thankfully, LED grow lights emit very little heat, so, unlike some other grow light systems, there isn’t too much chance of scorching your precious plants. Finding the optimal distance between the canopy of the plants and the lights often requires some experimentation…
Big List Of Plants That Grow From Cuttings To Cultivate In Your Home
A surprising number of house plants can be propagated successfully from small cuttings from a healthy parent plant. Knowing which plants will take root and grow from slips opens up a whole new level of gardening! Sharing plants from your collection is a meaningful way to show friends you care, and homegrown plants make lovely,…
8 Small Herb Garden Ideas For An Apartment
There is nothing quite like the delight of harvesting fresh produce that you have grown yourself. No matter how small your apartment may be, fresh herbs can always be on hand if you have the right setup to maximize growing space. And you don’t have to have a green thumb or be an expert gardener…
Plant Stand With Grow Lights: Is It Worth The Investment?
With the new year around the corner, my newsfeed has recently been filled with loads of tempting gardening items that will soon be on sale. There are so many nifty items that I’d love to try, but one that caught my eye is a set of gorgeous plant shelves, complete with grow lights. However, I…
40 Corner Garden Ideas For Beginners
Corners are often overlooked quiet spots in your garden where the only gardening limitation is your imagination…and the amount of sunlight the area gets! After our recent super successful small tropical garden experiment that we made in a corner, I have been thinking about other ways to use outdoor corner spaces effectively. The benefit of…
12 Small Tropical Garden Ideas To Try Out
In gardening, like in life, variety and creativity are essential, and I recently spotted some tropical garden ideas that I couldn’t get enough of. Of course, I will never give up any of my precious rose space, but with my collection of all types of pot plants snowballing, I hadn’t realized that by grouping them…
How To Grow Plumeria Indoors. A No-nonsense Guide
Whether it was a honeymoon trip to a tropical island paradise or a memorable holiday, the sweet smell of frangipani flowers will stay imprinted on you forever. When my cousin sent me a photo of a plumeria plant blooming inside her upstairs apartment in London, I thought my eyes were deceiving me, and I had…
