Orchids Blooming The Year Around On A Window Sill
Most people turn a deaf ear when orchids are suggested as ideal house plants. Yet anyone who can grow African violets or gloxinias indoors can grow orchids. There is hardly
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Why Not A Florida Room For Flourishing Flowers and Foliage
With flourishing flowers and foliage just across the threshold here in Florida, you wouldn’t think we would bring the outdoors in, but everyone does, and on a much larger scale
Growing In Wick Pots For African Violets
That 16” inch Double Neptune, completely hiding its wick-fed pot 18 months ago, was the size of the small Double Neptune, just beginning its wick-fed career. The new 3” inch
The Curious Mimicy Plants
Protective coloration and mimicry of surrounding objects so everyday in the animal kingdom are seldom encountered in plants. Few realize that a group of plants that best exemplify this interesting
How To Get Rid Of Spider Mites On Calathea
Spider mites are one of the most common pests to affect Calathea plants. These tiny intruders are arachnids, yet as with insect pests, vigilance is your best defense against them.
Tips For Successful Rooting And Growing Of African Violets
Are you often discouraged when you try to root out or grow African violets successfully? Trial And Error For Successful Propagation Of Houseplants Through trial and error, after many years
Anthuriums – Flowers for Moderns
Are they real?” That’s what visitors would ask incredulously when shown over a thousand anthurium blooms in the greenhouses. Their incredulity was due, of course, to the “strange” formation and
Begonias in an Apartment
For air must circulate freely about them. A large 5-foot tray directly on the radiator itself supplements the water supply in the galvanized tray of the largest window. About seven
New Slants On Growing African Violets
Many years ago Atlanta, Georgia, was the great center of African violet interest on October 9 and 10, when enthusiasts from 20 states met for the first time at the
What Plants Are Red Accents For The Holidays?
What is more enjoyable on a gray winter day than a house plant decked with red flowers or laden with bright red fruit—so gay and colorful that even a single