Blog List Category: Houseplants

Selecting the Best Potting Soil and Potting Mix

While creating some videos about potting soil (links below) I reviewed a lot of commercial products, looking at both…

How To Debug Plants Before Bringing Them Indoors

Growing marginally hardy or non-hardy plants in cold climates usually involves growing them in containers and moving them…

Orchid Fertilizer Myths – Grow More Flowers

There is a lot of information floating around about fertilizing orchids, but much of it is wrong. For example, the whole…

15 Cactus Myths – Learn to Enjoy Your Spiny Friend

Cactus are very weird plants. They almost never have leaves. They sit there and do nothing for a good part of the year. They…

Fake Orchids – How to Convert Ugly White Orchids Into Blue, Orange and Even Green Ones

Orchids are one of the most beautiful flowering houseplants you can buy and yet they are just not good enough –…

Why Can’t You Trust Gardening Information on the Internet – Using a Ghost Writer

Why can’t you trust gardening information on the Internet? As part of my effort to bust gardening myths, I also try to…

How to Get Indoor Plants to Bloom More

There is nothing like flowers in winter time but indoor plants don’t always cooperate and bloom well. Why? What can be…

21 Common Indoor Plant Myths – That Save You Time and Money

The popularity of indoor plants has skyrocketed in the last year and so have the myths surrounding them. I have gathered a…

Increasing Humidity for Indoor Plants – What Works and What Doesn’t

Indoor plants do better with  higher humidity and there are several recommended ways to create this increased humidity. Some…
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