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• Letting Go

  
  You Grow Girl: The Dirt — Authority: 130
  A sad mess of dessicated branches soon to meet the compost bin is all that remains of my beloved ‘Chinese Ornamental’ hot pepper plant. I had grown fond of this little hot pepper plant and was sad to let it go. I started the plant from seed two years and lovingly nurtured it through [...]
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• Houseplants and house trees can flourish with minimum of effort

  
  Texas Tech Today — Authority: 486
  My husband’s weeping fig tree (Ficus benjamina) left this world only last year, having lived 20 years with no fertilizer, ever, and far less water than it rightfully deserved. “I never watered it until I noticed it was sick,” my spouse cheerfully reported.
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• Biggest Houseplant News From 2009

  
  millertime — Authority: 104
  This exciting event got lost in my blogging funk as of late, but check out my cactus bloom!! This took place for the second time on August 17th, the first bloom was last spring (June I think...its one of the pictures stored in the "chasm of the un-tagged" on Photobucket :( Anyway, isnt it beautiful?!Here is the name ...
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• Minibeasts of ignominy

  
  Travel Hopefully — Authority: 110
  Some creatures have no shame. In the last three days weve suddenly had houseflies again. Now, flies when the weathers hot and the cows are in the next-door field: fair enough. Theyre only trying to make a living, after all. Flies in November: hardly cricket.These dont look dopey, as end-of-season (would that make them ...
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• How to Improve Indoor Air Quality with Houseplants

  
  Danny Lipford — Authority: 440
  Houseplants can filter toxins and pollutants in stale indoor air and replace carbon dioxide with oxygen. Even though almost any plant can do this, some plants are better than others, especially when it comes to having them in your home. Philodendrons and spider plants are the best for removing formaldehyde, while ...
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• sneaky little clivias

  
  Kaseys Korner — Authority: 124
  You never knew that adjective could be applied to a plant, did you?  Its an incorrect usage ~ Im sure plants dont have hidden agendas ~ it was just the first thing that popped in my head when I spied two buds almost hidden in the clivia foliage.  See them compressed between two strapping leaves?? Ive ...
  2 weeks ago

• aka Tradescantia

  
  The Balcony Garden — Authority: 104
  Half way through the week I got a message from Mr Subjunctive, over at Plants are the Strangest People . Had I any idea, he asked, why in the past few days he had had literally hundreds of hits from Italy - all for people searching for the plant Tradescantia pallida (the purple-leaved plant in the photo above). ...
  2 weeks ago

• Benjamin Fig - Not Tasty But Beautiful

  
  Bloomin' Blog — Authority: 429
  If you’d asked me just over a year ago what I thought a Benjamin fig was, you’d have received a blank stare and then some sort of foodie response. Unfortunately, Benjamin fig (also known as Weeping Fig) is not the newest way to spice up your figgy pudding but it is an awesome houseplant to [...]
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• How to Help Houseplants Cope With Winter

  
  Danny Lipford — Authority: 440
  This palm needs to be moved away from the fireplace. Now that the weather’s getting cooler, my houseplants are beginning to protest a little – they know that they belong in the tropics, and they’re not too keen on spending their winters in an artificially heated climate. I can identify with that! Try the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jade plant in bloom!

  
  Poor Richard's Almanac — Authority: 425
  Our friend Ben was excited—and that’s an understatement—when I went out to water the greenhouse yesterday morning and saw that one of our jade plants was covered with clusters of white buds. A blooming jade plant?! Well, of course I knew that they had to bloom, but I’d never seen one bloom or imagined them ...
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• What to Do This Week

  
  In the Garden — Authority: 132
  Perennials: Finish cleanup, including pulling weeds that are still growing. Cut back late-blooming mums. Leave the ornamental grasses for winter interest. Cut back perennials to 4 to to five inches. Spread fertilizer such as 5-10-5-on perennial beds. It will work into the soil during winter. Continue planting bulbs ...
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• BigBox Botanical Garden Collage

  
  Toronto Gardens — Authority: 424
  For all you Mac users: behold my success at fooling iPhoto into creating a photo collage, something it doesnt profess to do. There are a number of third-party software choices available to let you do this... but I found a quick, easy and no-cost solution.Just pour your photos into a page template for a new iPhoto ...
  2 weeks ago

• Black Panther Streptocarpus

  
  Kaseys Korner — Authority: 124
  I thought about starting this post out with something exhilarating like "theres a Black Panther  lounging on my kitchen counter," but I knew I couldnt fool you.  Besides, if there was truly a feline of that nature in my house, I would not be on the computer.  You can bet your best perennials on that.  However, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cool Idea: Turn That Frond Upside Down

  
  CasaSugar — Authority: 605
  I fell in love with the topsy-turvy tomato planters when I first found them a year or two ago, but Im so excited to see the concept taken to a sleeker level. Ranging in price from $25 to $75, the Boskke Sky Planters are made in New Zealand from black or white ceramic. Theyre modern, beautiful, and completely ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Top 10 Anti-Pollution Houseplants

  
  Doctor Mercola — Authority: 112
  Having plants around your house adds to your home’s aesthetic appeal. But houseplants are more than mere decorations; they can also help improve your emotional healthy as well as your indoor air quality. Living close to nature may help you live longer and happier. Hospital patients who have a view of nature ...
  3 weeks ago

• How to thrill your cat

  
  Kaseys Korner — Authority: 124
  in one easy step ~ no subscriptions to "cat TV" required.  Heres how ~ youre on the edge of your seat, arent you!??  Sow some cat grass seed .  No matter what other expression you think you might see, let me reassure you, this is the face of one ecstatic cat: Oh yeah.  Hes just discovered a brand, ...
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• Indoor Plants for Hanging Around

  
  The GreenMan — Authority: 112
  Indoor hanging plants seem to come and go in style. Unfortunately, many people lose interest in them because they become bored with little more than green fronds hanging over their heads. But hanging plants can offer a great deal more, depending on how they are selected.A hanging plant does not simply mean Boston ...
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• Things Are Heating Up

  
  millertime — Authority: 104
  November up here is looking more like September with the current temps.......causing some plants to hang onto their lives-and blooms! (Like this borage, too bad my tomatoes couldnt survive this well!)Theyre mixing with the fall foliage thats already been established....this is spirea Mellow Yellow.Of course the ...
  3 weeks ago

• What to Do This Week

  
  In the Garden — Authority: 132
  Perennials: Continue planting bulbs. Mulch loosely with leaves or straw. Protect from squirrel foraging with plastic fruit boxes, screening or soak them in a deer repellent. A scattering of mothballs might help, too. It is too soon to mulch beds, but collect fallen oak leaves and pine needles to use later, after the ...
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• Why you should keep plants

  
  Good for You! — Authority: 130
  Bring a little of the outdoors to your indoors!Houseplants add an organic, natural touch to rooms in your home or to your office workspace. Gazing at the greenery amidst that tangle of cords and technology can be quite soothing.According to Eureka! Science News, “Adding these plants to indoor spaces can reduce ...
  3 weeks ago

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