All Posts Tagged With: "gardening"

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Roaches vs. Your Orchids: How to Keep Your Plants from Getting Devoured

Cockroaches are among the greatest pests with which you will have to battle in growing orchids. They can do incredible damage in a few nights if not caught and destroyed.
Why are roaches such a huge problem?  The answer is that one of their favorite things to eat is a potted plant’s tender young roots […]

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Rest Your Orchids the Right Way

Orchids need resting time every year. The exact time for this depends on the species, but for most orchids it should start some time in the fall and continue through most of the winter. You need to care for your plants differently at this time than you would during their energetic growth periods (spring and […]

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A Trek Around the Earth with Orchids

Of all of earth’s flowers, orchids are especially fascinating. Not only are they beautiful to look at, but they often bring a bit of wonder and mystery with them. Although distributed widely, many can only be found in isolated or exotic locations–misty rain forests, the sides of volcanoes, mucky swamps, for examples.
Beginning in earnest […]

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People Have Been Nuts over Orchids for A Long Time

Orchid cultivation is so widespread today that it is hard to picture a world without these marvelous flowers. However, not so very long ago, the inhabitantspopulace of the so-called civilized world were completely ignorant of the vast majority of species of orchids.
Europeans of course were familiar with their local orchid types, such as the […]

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Beautiful Orchids - Aged, Gorgeous and Mystifying

In the past, orchids were assumed as the extraordinary plants and only the very wealthy that can grow these plants. However, this thought is no longer considerable today. This time, each person can grow these lovely plants because they are more affordable and acknowledge on how to care for them is available readily. For those […]

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Many Options: Gardening

There are many options when deciding to start gardening, such as what type of garden to start.  Home gardening is becoming more popular again, although not always in the traditional ways it was in the past.  More people live in apartments and condominiums that ever before, so traditional methods of gardening do not work in […]

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Vegetable Gardening Seeds are the Hobby’s Sole Expense

If you’re planning on vegetable gardening, then you will obviously need to purchase seeds to be able to grow any plants at all. Many seeds, like bulbs, can be harvested to be reused in a fashion from year to year, but other seeds will need to be purchased on a regular basis. Fortunately, seeds tend […]

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Home Vegetable Gardening for Great Home-Grown Food

There used to be a time when literally everyone had their own garden. Of course, the grocery store changed all of that, and now the trend is that most people don’t have any garden at all. This is a sad statistic because home vegetable gardening can save you hundreds of dollars a year, as millions […]

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Not All Orchids Are Exotic; Some Could Be Your Neighbors

It is common “knowledge” that the orchid is a tropical/subtropical plant. But in fact, orchids can be found in just about every part of the globe except for the deserts and the polar regions.
About 85% of orchid types may inded be found in the tropics and subtropics, but that leaves a large proportion to […]

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Winter Vegetable Gardening Yields a Spring Harvest

When you think of gardening, chances are that you probably don’t consider winter the best time to do it. After all, very few plants can survive in the harsh, cold environment. Why else do the trees lose their leaves and such? However, there are a number of sturdy, rough plants that you can choose to […]

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