For those cold-hardy plants that you leave outdoors, improve their odds of survival by placing them in winter containers. Don’t overwater: Make sure your soil is well-drained. Because your plants ...

For those with less space, Jac shows how you can use the same design principles to plant out three colourful pots. She’s following the same colour scheme as the front garden: mauve, lilac and ...

Many of you may think that an agave-like plant structure can’t work in your design. I suppose that is fair. Before he joined ...

Simply break apart cloves from the bulb and plant them four inches apart and two inches deep in the soil, ensuring the pointed end faces upward. Using terracotta pots offers the advantage of ...

Common names: Sacred lotus, Indian lotus, Egyptian bean, and bean of India. Growing conditions: Lotus plants grow at the bottom of your water garden in submerged containers without drainage holes. The ...

Grow your own veggies at home to get delicious tomatoes, peppers and greens. Grow your own veggies at home to get delicious tomatoes, peppers and greens. AARP is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization ...

Plants can be large and vigorous or neat and compact, some are evergreen retaining their foliage all year, while others are deciduous and lose their leaves over winter. Most don’t like to dry out, but ...

It is thought that calcium oxalate raphides in the pineapple plant cause microabrasions, allowing bromelain to exert its proteolytic effect on dermal blood vessels. [9] It is therefore not ...

She earned Nu 60,000 last year, and her income increased to Nu 80,000 this year. “It is more profitable than maize, as long as wild animals do not damage the pineapples,” she said. For many farmers, ...