This is our houseplant category but can also address overwintering and bulb-forcing.
My constant ranting about hyacinths at this time of year is veering close to the definition of insanity. Regular reports of my delight at how successfully they force and how [...]
Just because we CAN do a thing, doesn’t mean we SHOULD do a thing or even MUST do a thing. This applies as equally to saving tender plants as it [...]
It’s probably now obvious to everyone why Buffalo gardeners might not put too much effort into gardening for “winter interest.” Here, winter survival - or, more accurately, blizzard survival - [...]
Indoor plants were a way of life at my previous job. It wasn’t that we really paid all that much attention to them, but they were everywhere - mainly your [...]
The answer: ME! I've murdered enough houseplants in my decades of trying to keep them alive to be curiously open to the idea of fake plants for indoors. So the [...]
This may sound more like a promotion than a rant, but that’s too bad. I must express how much I appreciate good garden centers at this time of the year. [...]
Yesterday, a friend in the UK turned my attention to the type of sensationalist tabloid online article that we should be trying to turn our attention away from. No, no [...]
Yes, houseplants can be fun, and, in a month or so, after I finish with bulbs, they’ll be the only plants I’m tending until spring. I’ve never been sure why, [...]
So just stop with the claims. I thought this—well, let’s call it an exaggeration rather than a myth—had died down, but no. It cropped up in a recent enewsletter from [...]
Then (left) and now The wonderful terrarium I had planted by a local shop last year is still wonderful; it’s just different. The large fishbowl had been the [...]
Neither of these are really hobbies, in my view. One is something almost everyone does on a regular basis and the other is used routinely by professional growers and others [...]
Grow a banana plant instead. Indoor gardening is all about sharing: the sharing of plants and the sharing of information about them. Much of the information sharing takes [...]
