Are you considering using soil cover (also called mulches) for your indoor plants? Perhaps after seeing other gardeners using it outdoors, you wondered if it would be beneficial for your potted plants. Using soil covers, often called mulches, for indoor plants is beneficial by reducing the incidence of diseases, retaining moisture, reducing pests, and even…
Of everything that we plant in our gardens when the weather turns warm, it’s hard to know what will come up next spring. After going through the effort to grow beautiful lavender, wouldn’t you want to make sure it lasts the winter? As a perennial, lavender will survive winter only for temperatures that do not…
You went to the supermarket and ended up buying some quite strange pink ginger roots? Were you wondering why there was a strange pink ginger slice in that Japanese restaurant you went to last time? What is the deal with pink ginger? The pink-purple color in ginger can be caused by: Age: very young ginger…
Can rainwater be used for houseplants? Is this a good alternative to the more expensive tap water? After all, plants live and thrive in the wild with just simple rainwater. So can they survive with just that? In general, rainwater is good for watering houseplants as it causes no harm to them. It is equally…
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Centipedes are apex predators and have a beneficial role to play in a garden. Inside my home, however, these fearsome creatures are not always so welcome. Are they dangerous to us? How do we get rid of ones that make their way into the potted plants indoors? In general, centipedes are found in houseplants because…
Herbs and shrubs are not the same things? No, they are not, and here why. In general, herbs are shorter than shrubs with softer and greener stems. Shrubs present multiple woody stems coming from the ground against a single one for herbs. Shrubs are very often perennial that can last many years unlikely the majority…