Do your gift plants whither and die quickly?
Have you ever received plants from the florist or nursery - gift plants, such as ones you might get when you are in the hospital, ill at home or when a child is born or when a loved one has died? The florist plants are lovely aren’t [...]
Growing and selecting ferns for indoors
Ferns will add interest to any room with their soft delicate appearance. The most familiar and popular varieties for indoor use are those native to tropical settings.
Outdoors, in natural conditions ferns grow on the forest floor in shady conditions, which means that indoors, ferns thrive in filtered, indirect light [...]
Datura, also known as the Devil’s Trumpet
I teased everyone the other day by showing a photo of a datura seed pod and making them guess what it was. I did promise that I would write about the Datura plant in that post though - so here it is.
Depending on what area of the [...]
There are several species of Schlumbergera but the ones that most people know of is the Christmas Cactus. In fact that name is commonly used to wrongly describe other species of Schlumbergera.
One Schlumbergera that is commonly mistaken is the Thanks Giving Cactus also known as the False Christmas Cactus and properly defined as Schlumbergera truncata.
There [...]
