Houseplants

Grow Gloxinias The Year Round

For years, I’d tried to interest my husband in my indoor gardening activities. Windows full of blooming African violets failed to impress him. Huge, flaring amaryllis drew a passing glance.

Grow Desert Plant From Seeds

If you are a house plant enthusiast interested in the infinite variety and simple austerity of succulents, you are fortunate, indeed.  These sturdy individuals are made-to-order for gardeners with a

Brighten Your Window With Gloxinias

If you want color on your windowsill, try growing gloxinias. No other house plants can provide the interesting variations and color range of the new gloxinia hybrids, and no other

Cool House Orchids

You don’t need high temperatures to grow orchids. There is a common belief among those who have never grown orchids that they require an excessively hot greenhouse, imitating conditions of

Try These Easy Echeverias

Perhaps no other class of house plant needs so little care or, plainly speaking, endures so much neglect as the big family called succulents.  Some of this family’s most dependable

For House Plant Enthusiasts

If variety is not always the spice of life, it certainly is in the case of the window garden. Most of us have our favorites, without which we could not

Rejuvenating Baby-tears

One of my window plants’ most enjoyable and dearest is Baby’s Tears, Helxine soleiroli. Visitors often ask me, “How do you care for your plant? Mine dies after I’ve had

101 Foliage Plants

This is the final installment of a primer of foliage plants for the collector. The preceding installments appeared in the September and October issues of Flower Grower.  Save all three

A Greenhouse Bridges The Gap

Tiny Greenhouse

What true gardener hasn’t experienced a kind of sad, “gone” feeling every fall when he has had to put his garden to bed for the winter”? And it’s no wonder