The Care Of The Greenhouse Indoors
Every indoor plant enthusiast can recall being tempted into trying one of the many house plants requiring greenhouse conditions, only to find that no care can prevent rather sudden death.
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Once Popular, Long Ignored A Caladium Comeback
There are only a few good Summer-time pot plant subjects, and the fancy-leaved caladium is neither the last nor the least. Caladiums: Hybrid Tuberous Plants The caladiums are a glorious,
Use House Plants For New Looks
Highlight a coffee table, a fireplace mantel, a piano with a single pot plant, or adorn a bay window with a collection of them. Bring an early spring to the
Gloxinias: How Experts Grow Prizewinners
An award-winning double gloxinia was grown originally from seed flowered in about 11 months. It was transplanted first into a two-inch and later into a 4-inch plastic pot. It was
House Plants on Parade
Boston’s first House Plant Show is now past and gone, but it will be long before those who attended it will forget the magnificent array of unusual plants exhibited there.
Big Blooms With Winter-Flowering Begonias
Choice winter fare from your greenhouse is the semi-tuberous begonia hybrids with glossy, round, scallop-edged leaves and bountiful blossoms, single or double, in all shades of red, pink, and white.
Two Strange Ferns
While I like all ferns—they remind me of cool, shady woodland dells—I think my favorites are the two strange ferns – the showy hart’s-tongue and the staghorn. Hart’s-Tongue Fern Hart’s-tongue
Get Acquinted with Kalanchoids
If you are looking for suitable plants for your window or garden, consider your search ended and heed my advice. The kalanchoids are the plants for you! Probably you are
Adventures In Growing Orchids In Sunny Windows
You can grow orchids in your home. You need only a sunny window and a few minutes a week. You may doubt this—most people do at first—but thousands are already
Growing House Plants From Seed
Raid the chicken for inexpensive equipment—and grow a fabulous variety of house plants at almost no cost and even less trouble from seeds! For sowing the seeds, use containers with