All Posts Tagged With: "plants"
What is Composting?
Composting is recycling your kitchen waste and lawn trimmings and turning them into a valuable resource for your garden or houseplants. What happens is that the process of composting is basically speeding up the natural process of decomposition. If you are a keen gardener then composting is somthing that you should learn more about.
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Adding Interest To the Garden With Ornamental Grass
Ornamental grass provides a great deal of variation in texture and tone to be injected into a garden, but for a majority of the year they are almost completely forgotten in some gardens. They may be used as a sole clump that provides a variation on the normal foliage within a garden bed or they […]
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Cut Your Orchid and Force It to Bloom More Bountifully
Very often you will happen to have an orchid that continued to grow year after year but that only ever brings forth one flowering pseudobulb. If you wish to multiply the number of blooming growths, you can accomplish this by a method of cutting with a knife in order to produce back shoots. With luck […]
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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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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.
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Keeping Plants Healthy with Proper Gardening Soil
Gardening soil is the foundation on which the garden is built, so building nutritious soil is the first thing that a gardener should focus on when implementing a new garden, or improving on a garden that is already in the works. There are many people, due to recent problems with fertilizers carrying dangerous viruses, who […]
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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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House Plant Care For Beginners
Plants are commonly found in homes across North America and Europe. With an endless supply of types available on the market, there is a type for everyone. Unlike many things, adding the living touch of a plant to your home or office can be very inexpensive, with little to no cost to keep. As water, […]
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Gardening Can Be Enjoyable And Relaxing
Paul's Version of Planting
For my whole life I’ve loved being in the garden. When I was a small child I would spend countless hours in the dirt with my grandmother planting everything from cucumbers to corn. All summer I would spend the days of summer at my grandparent’s farm. My grandfather game me a proposal, […]
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Selecting the Right Landscaping Plants or Trees for Your Garden
Any garden, regardless of its size, shape or terrain, can be spruced up by adding some landscaping plants or trees. However, simply planting some shrubs along the garden path or arranging a few flowering plants around a tree won’t necessarily score you huge landscaping points. There are right and wrong plants for your garden, and […]
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