Greenhouse Gardening All-year Hobby
With summer waning and the long winter months looming ahead, you’re no doubt anxious to start the seed collected from catalogs over the summer. For fortunate gardeners like myself, a
Houseplants
Favorites Among African Violets
If you can grow an African violet successfully without getting the urge to start a collection, you ought to be psychoanalyzed. You’re different!” We are normal people. start with one
Orchid Hunting In Maine
Orchid hunting is usually synonymous with steaming jungles, not a Maine forest. But like their tropical cousins, some of our own native orchids have to be hunted down in their
Your Vegetable Storage Problems
After spending most of the summer fighting bugs and insects and praying for rain to grow vegetables that are fit to eat, some of our gardeners like to store surplus
Dainty Dancing Oncidium Lady Orchids
Among the cultivated orchids the dancing ladies or dancing dolls are probably the daintiest and loveliest. Belonging to the genus Oncidium, they have long, graceful sprays of bright golden yellow
Can You Grow Spider Plants In Water?
Few houseplants are more iconic than Chlorophytum comosum (kloh-roh-FY-tum kom-OH-sum), better known as the spider plant. This plant is known for its white flowers, arched foliage, and almost spider-like appearance,
Can Anyone Grow Gloxinias?
During the past 10 years, the African violet has been the only house plant to gain more popularity than gloxinia. A recent popularity poll made it the number two house
What’s In Your Home Greenhouse?
Here is August, with sizzling sunshine and buzzing cicadas. While some greenhouse fans are fumigating and painting to make ready for the next season, some maintain a jungle atmosphere all
How To Keep Calla Lilies In Pots
Are you an incurable window shopper like me? Some windows I manage to walk by – slowly, I admit, but flower shop windows stop me! Because I live in a
Grow Your Own Dollars With Greenhouse Gardening
I had to have a greenhouse. I had wanted one ever since as a little fellow. It smelled good, and it felt good to be in a greenhouse. Ah, many