Tag: potted plants
Live Christmas Trees Eventually Mature
UNITED STATES—Christmas trees grow on farms. They are an agricultural commodity. Their unnatural and intensive cultivation is no asset to any associated natural ecosystem....
Houseplant Culture That Contradicts Gardening
UNITED STATES—Houseplant culture is a unique type of horticulture. It involves almost no gardening. Most houseplants live exclusively indoors. Many inhabit homes and offices...
Pot Plants Generally Get Burned Out
UNITED STATES—Pot plants are very different from common potted plants. Potted plants sustain healthy growth within pots or similar containers. They can range from...
Planters Are Overrated But Functional
UNITED STATES—Container gardening is overrated. The endemic soil here is not so bad that nothing will grow in it. What is now suburban gardens...
Nursery Cans Are Only Temporary
UNITED STATES—Garden enthusiasts would understand the temporary nature of nursery cans better if they knew more about how plants grow in nurseries. Few plants...
Hanging Planters Need Extra Attention
UNITED STATES—With few exceptions, plants dislike confinement of their roots. They prefer to be in the ground where they can disperse roots freely. Houseplants...
Foliage Is Meant For Natural Weather
UNITED STATES—Foliage needs sunlight for photosynthesis. Foliage needs air for respiration. Roots need moisture to sustain foliage. Houseplants can technically get all of what...
Seasonal Potted Plants For Christmas
UNITED STATES—'Tis the season for seasonal potted plants. These are not well established houseplant or potted plants that live out on porches and patios...
Potted Plants Are Living Things
UNITED STATES—Cut Christmas trees really are the way to go. There is no obligation to take care of them after Christmas. They do not...
Secret Lives Of Christmas Trees
UNITED STATES—People really stress out over Christmas trees. Some do not want a cut Christmas tree because it involves killing the tree. Some do...
Potted Plants Have Their Place
UNITED STATES—Pavement serves a purpose in a landscape. So does decking. They are the flooring of the outdoor spaces that are used for outdoor...
Houseplants Might Enjoy Some Weather
UNITED STATES—They were not always houseplants. They came from somewhere else. Most came from shady tropical forests, which is why they have such big...
Potted Plants Going To Pot
UNITED STATES—It seems like such a waste that so many of the prettiest blooming plants are generally regarded as temporary. They are grown in...
Potted Plants For Christmas Color
UNITED STATES—After all the Christmas decorations get put away for next year, and the Christmas tree eventually gets undressed from all its ornaments, and...
Houseplants Bring The Outdoors In
UNITED STATES—Philodendrons, dracaenas, ferns, palms or any sort of tropical foliage inside our homes only create an illusion of closeness to nature. Naturally, these...
Pots And Pans Need Cleaning
UNITED STATES—This is getting to be cliché. “While they are dormant through winter," plants tolerate all sorts of abuse that would offend them at...
Even Houseplants Can Appreciate Rain
UNITED STATES—Everyone is from somewhere. Not everyone is fortunate enough to be from California. Most of the various plants in our gardens, even if...
Do Not Forget Potted Plants
UNITED STATES—Aside from all the seasonal raking and dormant pruning, there is not as much to do in the garden as there was earlier...
Succulents Know Recycling And DIY
UNITED STATES—There are all sorts of succulent plants, ranging from finely textured small stonecrops to huge suguaro cactus. Because aloes and agaves are succulents,...
Ferns Are Made For Shade
UNITED STATES—Without color or fragrance of flowers, ferns provide some of the most distinctive foliage in the garden. They do not turn color in...
