Calathea: Colorful Foliar Tapestry for Your Indoor GardenCalathea is one of the most stunning houseplants available to the indoor gardener. When it comes to looks and decorating your home, the intricately marked foliage on this eye-catching indoor...
 (Photo, Shaun Buchanan) Make Your Own XerisphereIf the idea of a terrarium sounds appealing, but youâre not sure if you have the time to care for one, the writers of the new book Planting Designs for Cactus &...
Celebrate Indoor Gardening! Â National Indoor Plant Week is this month (September 15-19), and weâre celebrating! Established to create public awareness of the many attributes of indoor plants, the week gives us a chance to look at the myriad ways...
Plant an Indoor Living Arrangement If you long to create fabulous indoor plant arrangements, but struggle to get started or arenât satisfied with what you have attempted, Baylor Chapman has all of the ingredients youâll need. The author of the...
Grow Your Own Microgreens Indoors! Interested in growing trendy, nutritious microgreens in your indoor vegetable garden? The new MicroGreenz kit allows you to do just that. Offering everything you need to grow these baby veggie shoots indoors, the...
Make Your Own Hypertufa ContainersYou may have heard of hypertufa pots for the outdoors. It turns out that houseplants thrive in these rustic-looking containers, which are easy to make yourself and can be fashioned into just about any shape you...
Pottery Shards for Drainage?If youâve heard that you need pottery shards or rocks at the bottom of the pot for drainage when repotting your houseplants and find this extra step to be inconvenient, garden writer and radio show host C. L. Fornari has...
Creative Collages   If youâre crafty, or would like to be, check out the book Artful Collage from Found Objects by New York City garden writer Ellen Spector Platt. Packed with 161 color...
As the Worm Turns: The Garden PlotIf you love gardening and enjoying a good mystery, Marty Wingate has the perfect summer read for you. Her new book, The Garden Plot, shares the story of Pru, an American working as a gardener in England, who unearths...
Keep Your Houseplants Alive and ThrivingDelighted is an understatement when it comes to my response to Nell Fosterâs new book, Keep Your Houseplants Alive. For years Iâve preached that the key to growing healthy houseplants has nothing to do with...