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
Perhaps the one time that indoor plants are most appreciated is in the long gray wintery months that precede spring. Average Indoor Plants Foliage plants, African violets, gloxinias, and begonias are about the extent of what the average indoor gardener has to work with. Summer Months: Growth and Bloom of Plants Actually, with proper light, … Read more
Would you like to have a brilliant, dependable flower this winter and next spring in contrast to your usual house plants? Spring Colors of Plants You can have generous spreads of color —yellow, blue, pink, and red—if you plan now to force bulbs such as tulips and daffodils. They’re easier than you think and very … Read more