Over the years I have met many houseplant owners and everyone has a favorite houseplant. Below you will find some of them along with comments on why these plants are their favorite. Swiss Cheese Plant For dramatic effect and simplicity of care, or as a source of continuous pleasure, few house plants can compare with … Read more
Textures! From the smoothness of sleekest satin to soft, furry down, they are found in the leaves of houseplants. How stimulating they are to the flower arranger searching out materials that will enhance, either by affinity or contrast, the decoration in mind, for that time or season when flowers are few and expensive. Along with … Read more
A potential planter is a clear glass bottle with an opening large enough to insert a pencil. Tall, short, square, round — the garden may be planted in an expensive antique or simply an empty perfume, medicine, or beverage bottle. Half-gallon, gallon, and even ten-gallon jugs offer unlimited landscaping opportunities. Having selected a bottle, these … Read more
Let’s turn our hobby of gardening into a pursuit of gift-giving. Here in our window garden, there in our outdoor garden, the materials are at hand. Many plants can get started from slips or cuttings, by divisions or offsets, by air-layering, and even by seeds. And plants are always given a warm welcome for birthdays … Read more
Gardeners do not need paints to make a picture. With a palette of living plants, they can paint a memorable composition, drawing from a wealth of material that is both old and new. With a small expenditure of time, effort, and money, many kinds of fascinating houseplants can be used to compose this masterpiece. Begonia … Read more
Alternanthera This colorful, little Alternanthera is a lovely flower with narrow lanceolate leaves. It makes a very effective edging plant. Its leaves, variegated with crimson, pink, green, brown, orange, and carmine, in some respects, resemble our brilliant Autumn leaves. Perhaps it is often seen as an edging or ribbon border or for carpet bedding in … Read more
I first saw Fittonia verschaffeltii pearcei several years ago in a conservatory. Its olive-green foliage and red veins intrigued me, and I began searching the catalogs for a source. At last, I was the proud possessor of a plant but knew nothing of its care. Caring For Fittonia Verschaffeltii Pearcei I did not give it … Read more
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 indoor garden with the fragrance of spring-flowering bulbs. Add sparkle to your kitchen with a few geraniums, begonias, miniature roses, or herbs. Then, dramatize an … Read more
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. House Plants In Horticultural Hall The 6,000-odd people who thronged Horticultural Hall on September 5 and 6 are proof enough of the widespread interest in … Read more
For healthy growth, all plants require heat, light, humidity, proper soil conditions, food, and water in varying amounts, according to the type and the year’s season. The absence or overabundance of one of these essentials is always the limiting factor to best plant growth. The window gardener will soon discover the one affecting their plant … Read more