Houseplants That Won't Wilt In Your Kitchen Heat (They'll Actually Thrive)
The trick to adding greenery to your kitchen decor is to select plants that can shrug off extreme heat fluctuations (because they're cool like that).
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7 Houseplants That Scream Spring
We all could use some sunny hues, fresh flowers, and gorgeous greenery to our home right now, yes? These picks surely scream "spring is here!"
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How To Add Phosphorus To Soil For Your Best Garden Ever
Learn everything you need to know about phosphorous and how to add phosphorus to your soil for healthier plant growth, including sources of organic phosphorous.
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How To Care For Begonias
Begonia care is not difficult but is specific to the type of begonia you have. Learn all about begonia types and how to care for begonia plants indoors and outdoors.
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New To Gardening? What You Need To Know To Grow An Herb And Spice Garden
Herbs make an easy project for beginning gardeners and a useful one for cooks. Put often-used herbs in front, and select unusual or flowered herbs for contrast.
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How And When To Prune 50 Trees, Shrubs, And Flowers
Can't remember how or when to prune your roses, apple trees, or hydrangeas? Do you need to deadhead those flowers? It's all right here in our pruning calendar!
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How To Prune Lavender
Prune those lavender plants! If you don't, they'll get woody and leggy and will have fewer flowers. Learn how and when to prune lavender plants whether they're English lavender, hybrid lavender, or Spanish or French lavender.
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How To Prune A Plum Tree
Plum trees are easy-care fruit trees. Pruning plum trees during the dormant season is essential to maintain the tree's shape, to allow adequate light into the canopy, and to create healthy fruiting wood. Since Japanese and European plums have different natural shapes, they are pruned differently.
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How To Prune Fig Trees
Common fig (Ficus carica) is a tree with large, attractive lobed leaves and delicious, edible fruits. Pruning fig trees is essential both at transplant and when the tree matures. If you are wondering how to prune fig trees, that depends on whether you're training the tree or pruning a mature tree.
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How To Prune Petunias
Petunias, with their bright, fragrant blossoms and easy-care ways, are among the most popular bedding plants. Despite their reputation for being low-maintenance plants, petunias do best when pruned during the growing season. Learn how to prune petunias.
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5 Dwarf Magnolia Varieties That Are Perfect For Small Yards
Anyone with a small garden who longs for a magnolia should consider dwarf magnolia species. While regular magnolia trees can grow to 50 feet tall, you can find dwarf trees in commerce from 10 to 20 feet tall. These can be grown directly in the landscape or in containers.
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How To Prune Orchids
Orchids are air plants that produce fragrant and exotic-looking blossoms. Most houseplant orchids benefit from grooming. Pruning orchids helps to encourage rebloom and also helps prevent disease. If you are wondering how to prune orchids, it is easy once you understand a few key principles.
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Roses Are Notoriously Finicky — Here's How To Prune Without Killing Them
How to prune roses depends entirely on the type of roses in the garden. The most common varieties fall into one of four broad categories: hybrid tea and grandiflora, floribunda and polyantha, shrub roses, and climbing roses. No two of these types of roses are pruned exactly alike.
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You Can Actually Keep These 7 Plants INSIDE Your Shower
Plants in the bathroom are trending, so why not take the next step and move some of those green-leafed beauties into your actual shower? These shower plants will transform it into a space of serenity and calm.
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How To Prune Apple Trees
Of all the maintenance tasks required in a home orchard, gardeners worry most about pruning apple trees. This is understandable because every expert has their own ideas of when and how to prune apple trees. But by keeping key principles in mind, pruning apple trees doesn't have to overwhelm you.
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How To Prune Gardenias
Gardenias are woody, broadleaf evergreen shrubs renowned for their fragrant, showy white flowers and dark emerald green foliage. They need bright light and humidity to thrive. Pruning gardenias in the spring will maintain the shape of the plant. Deadhead the spent flowers to encourage blooming.
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The 11 Best Flowers To Plant In Morning Sun And Afternoon Shade
If your garden gets sun in the morning but not the afternoon, you'll need to find plants that like these conditions. Fortunately, there are many flowers and flowering shrubs that thrive in shade during the heat of the day as long as they catch a few rays early in the day.
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How To Prune A Pear Tree
Pear trees require "training" at planting time and then regular annual pruning. If you are wondering when and how to prune a pear tree, it depends on the type of pruning and the maturity of the tree. Training refers to the initial pruning to set the scaffold branch structure and the leader.
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How To Prune Daisies
Anyone who loves growing daisies will want to know how and when to prune these popular flowering plants. Prune daisies during the growing season by deadheading to encourage more blooms, and reduce the height of stems to discourage legginess. Prune back perennial daisies just before winter as well.
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Pruning Nandina (Heavenly Bamboo)
Although this shrub grows lustily without maintenance or trimming, pruning nandina on an annual basis can keep it compact and prevent taller shrubs from getting leggy.
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How To Prune Sedum
Sedum plants are easy-care flowering succulents. One popular type is upright sedum (Hylotelephium spp.), including Autumn Joy. They form tall, standing clumps. They can be pruned to the ground in autumn, but many gardeners opt to leave the stalks in place during the cold months for winter interest.
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When To Prune Limelight Hydrangea
Limelight hydrangea pruning is not necessary for the health or structure of the plant. However, it is a good practice to remove dead and broken branches whenever you see them. Other pruning, like gentle shaping or pruning to reduce the shrub's size, can wait until late winter or early spring.
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How To Prune Kousa Dogwood Trees (Japanese Dogwood)
Kousa dogwood (Cornus kousa) is a handsome, flowering tree that grows to a medium height in a full-sun location unless it is size-pruned. Pruning is essential if you want your Kousa to stay smaller than its mature size of 30 feet in both directions. It can be pruned in winter or after blooming.
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How To Prune Hibiscus
Hibiscus are shrubs with pink trumpetlike flowers. The perennial variety is a cold-hardy herbaceous perennial offering blooms from July through September. Evergreen tropical hibiscus blooms all year in warm-winter areas. Properly pruning hibiscus stimulates branch growth, which means more flowers.
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12 Humidity-Loving Plants That Will Thrive In Your Bathroom
Nothing wakes up a bathroom better than a potted plant or two. But you need to select plants plants that appreciate humidity and the lighting available in your bathroom. You'll find humidity-loving plants for low-light bathrooms like begonias and also for bright spaces, like ferns.
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How To Take Care Of Plants When You're On Vacation
Whether you leave for a weekend or a week, you need to arrange care for your houseplants. There are lots of hacks to help you with the plants, depending on how long you plan to be gone. Here's how to prepare for when you're away.
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If You Have A Life Path Master Number 33, This Houseplant Is Ideal For You
Those traveling LPN 33 are Master Teachers, devoted to uplifting the positive energy of humankind. People with this master number may become guides or teachers, but they can also go on to alter the course of human life for the better. We've found a houseplant that does this too: Aloe Vera.
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