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...
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...
Growing Fruits and Vegetables Indoors If you lack outdoor space for a vegetable garden or live in a region with a short growing season, don’t give up on gardening. Growing your own fruits and veggies...
Sago Palm: Prehistoric Plant Adds Pizzazz to the Modern Home Stylish and easy to grow are two attributes indoor gardeners look for in a houseplant. The architecturally appealing sago palm (Cycas revoluta) features both....
Elegant Peace Lily Adds Flair to Your Indoor Garden If you want a blooming houseplant that requires low light and takes very little care, grow a peace lily (Spathiphyllum). The long-lasting flowers of this elegant beauty light up the indoor garden...
Decorate for the Holidays with Christmas CactusThere’s something extra special about growing a houseplant named after a holiday. Especially a plant like Christmas cactus, which lives up to its name by producing eye-catching blooms that rival...
Chinese Evergreen Decorates Your Indoors If you’re looking for a low-light indoor plant that fits just about any décor, take a close look at Chinese evergreen (Aglaonema sp.). This versatile, slow-growing houseplant thrives in all but very bright...
Maidenhair Fern: Delicate Beauty for Your Indoor Garden With their paper-thin, finely cut, emerald-green foliage and wispy appearance, maidenhair ferns appear almost ethereal. In keeping with their princess-like good looks, maidenhair ferns are...
Arrowhead Plant An Eye-Catching VinerFeaturing arrow-shaped leaves that are often variegated, arrowhead plant (Syngonium podophyllum) is a vining houseplant native to Latin America. Like its relative the climbing philodendron, as it matures, the...