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  • Blooming Homes: Anthriums and other Flowering Houseplants
    Blooming houseplants are a wonderful way to add colour to your home. They can be difficult to grow, but are worth the effort. When taken care of, many of the plants discussed here will bloom for long periods.
  • Cheap Art - Indoor Plants for Beauty, Color and Easy Care
    When it comes to home decorating, choosing the plants that will take up residence alongside the furniture is often a more difficult proposition than the choosing of the furniture itself. Plants come in such a wide variety of colors, sizes and styles that they can single-handedly provide a touch of unique flavor and warmth to a room that furniture simply can't accomplish. This lead to rise in artificial plants, as homeowners sought to outfit their homes with this touch of flavor, while avoiding the upkeep involved in doing gardening, often seen as too time consuming and difficult.
  • No Mercy - Squash Annoying Weeds
    Weeds are the nemesis of all lawns, whether they are nearly as ancient as the trees around them, or freshly planted. These unsightly blemishes can really ruin the appearance of an otherwise immaculate lawn. To combat the spread of weeds across America, a number of quality chemical compounds have been devised that stop weeds dead in their tracks.
  • Battling Allergies Indoors - Try A Sick Air Solution
    Allergies are a major problem for many people. Sneezing, coughing, itchy eyesall year long. Allergy shots, diet, and medicine can help the symptoms, but you need to find a way to stop the source of allergies. An air purification system is the perfect solution.
  • Fertilizing Plants - Food for the Foliage
    The words plant food and fertilizer are synonymous. The only difference is that plant food is in concentrated form. Your houseplants, lawn, landscape and garden need to have some kind of food for energy to live and grow.
  • Drip Or Trickle - Making Leaking a Good Think
    We've all heard the saying "you don't know what you've got till it's gone". It's often the simple things that are overlooked until it's too late - things like water. If there is a drought, your landscape and garden will surely feel the effects. There are some things you can do conserve water during or before a drought to help.
  • African Violets - Adventures in Propagation
    You can propagate plants in multiple different ways, including leaf cuttings, seeds, etc. You can use leaf cuttings to propagate African violets and Gloxinia. Leaf cutting is when you cut the leaf where it joins the stem. You then put the leaf in a starting mixture to allow it to grow. Roots will begin to grow from the stem within a few weeks. Once the roots start to grow, you can transplant the new plant into regular potting soil.
  • Growing Plants - Professional Equipment Not Required!
    After you become successful at maintaining houseplants in your home, you will likely feel the need to take your gardening a step further. The next step is to create plants yourself. Instead of acting as solely a caretaker, you are becoming the creator.
  • Energy Effecient Home - Are They An Unhealthy Home?
    As tightly insulated as your home may be, there is no complete protection of keeping perfectly clean air in while keeping polluted air out. If you have ever had wildfires around your home, this becomes clear. You can smell the smoke in your house no matter what you do. Situations like these just show what always happens. Polluted air will always get into your home.
  • Nature's Provides The Best Natural Pest Control
    You may be surprised to know how much we can use nature to help with little problems that can occur. You can cultivate certain plants in your garden to help with these things.







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