Sunshine Decoding those perplexing tag instructions on light. If the tag says direct light, the plant needs six or more hours of bright sunshine a day, hitting it head-on. If the tag says moderate light, the plant needs bright, direct sunshine only part of the time—about four hours a day. Read more…
Lithops Lithops are better known as living stones because of their unusual characteristics. Looking at them you may think they look like small pebbles and stones just laying on the ground. These succulents are really different and a great addition to any succulent garden. In southern Africa, where they originate, Read more…
1. Feverfew This perennial medicinal herb is part of the chrysanthemum family. It’s easy to grow, and once it blooms in spring, it doesn’t stop. You can use the versatile leaves and flowers of this prolific plant to make a healing tea or a fragrant summertime bouquet. Feverfew has been Read more…
One of the most often overlooked growing practices is pruning tomatoes. Before you start clipping, you’ll need to know what type of tomato you are growing. There are two types, indeterminate and determinate. Indeterminate tomatoes are those that have a leaf bud as the apical meristem. This means the plant Read more…
Very often flowers suffer from irregular irrigation or insufficient care and nutrition. But, if you do everything to keep the flowers alive, and they still don’t bloom as they should, try one of these 3 tricks. Place ice instead of water Putting 2 ice cubes once a week is quite enough. Read more…
Lemon trees add beauty to yards and porches and furthermore supply tart, delicate yellow fruit. They propagate well from cuttings, in spite of the fact that the subsequent tree may do not have a similar infection resistance found in commercially grown lemon trees, which are typically grafted. Developing lemon cuttings Read more…
There’s nothing like seeing your garden taken over by slugs. Not only can slugs munch through all your seedlings in minutes, but they can also destroy your favorite hosta or delphinium in days. Slugs are one of the most destructive and difficult pests to control but they do play an Read more…
Are you fascinated by exotic and unusual cacti and succulent? Potted cacti and succulent plants take up a lot of room on windowsills and shelves that a lot of us don’t have. And an outdoor succulent garden isn’t a possibility in some climates. Fortunately, there are several succulent plants that Read more…
Slate just reported on this amazing map of ‘Herbal Cures’ from 1932 of the medicinal plants in common use among pharmacists and the public back then. The map itself states under the heading ‘The Service of Pharmacy’: “It is important that the public does not lose sight of the fact that Read more…
In recent 10 to 15 years world has seen a great change in almost every walk of life and with rapid development and improvement in quality of life people have started taking their health related issues very seriously as a result of which serious questions have been raised about the Read more…