How to Convert Houseplants Rooted in Water to Soil Congratulations on successfully rooting a houseplant in water! However, before transplanting those healthy-looking roots into soil, it’s...

Indoor Plant Décor: Designing with Houseplants While the ‘70s houseplant craze brought indoor gardening to the forefront, the age of macramé hangers and mismatched pots left houseplants with a bit of an image problem. That’s one reason why authors...

Decorate Your Home with Houseplants One of the great things about growing houseplants is how good they make your home look. With their wide variety of leaf shapes, sizes, colors and textures, houseplants can be used to decorate just about any...

Houseplant Combinations to Light Up Your Home   If you’ve ever brought home a mixed planting with high hopes only to watch each plant wither away until you’re left with very little if anything living, Steve Asbell’s book, Plant By...

Force Amaryllis Indoors for the Holidays  Now that fall is here (on the western hemisphere), it’s time to get your bulbs for forcing. Several options exist for types of bulbs to grow as houseplants, but one of the most spectacular and reliable of...

Feeding Houseplants a Vegetarian, Organic Diet When I researched my book Indoor Gardening the Organic Way a few years ago, gardening organically outdoors had become the norm. At the time, when I asked horticulturists about growing houseplants...

Growing Succulents Indoors Successfully  When it comes to making a design statement in your indoor garden, succulents are your answer. Their wide variety of colors, textures and forms add pizzazz to any room—especially when combined with eye-catching...

Fill Your Home with Flowering Houseplants If you love bouquets but want something that will last, grow flowering houseplants. Blooming beauties light up your indoors for weeks on end, and many even flower year-round. A wide variety of houseplants...

Make Your Own Organic Houseplant FertilizerMaking your own organic fertilizer for your houseplants has the same benefits of a home-cooked meal. You know the ingredients going into the fertilizer, and they tend to be a lot healthier than anything you...

Houseplants Happily Clean Your Indoor Air In the late 1990s, when I interviewed B.C. Wolverton about his new book, How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office, indoor gardeners everywhere cheered. Finally, houseplants were...