Growing orchids in your home
Growing orchids should be easy. They are a very forgiving plant if you understand it. Sadly, most are drowned by
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Flowers
Pungent plants
Noteworthy pungent plants from around the world. Titan Arum (Amorphophallus titanum) The corpse flower is known as “the worst smelling
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Stinky flowers
There aren’t many things that smell better than walking through a beautiful garden and inhaling the intoxicating aroma of flowers
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Downy mildew killing impatiens
Common impatiens, Impatiens walleriana, have always seemed the most indestructible of plants. You stick them in the ground, give them
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Beguiling Begonias and its other species
We have been growing begonias in our homes and garden for about three centuries. There are many, many hybrids in
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Beauty in a bulb: 6 summer magicians for glowing colour
By Dorothy Dobbie If there is one thing that bulbs, especially summer bulbs, have in common it’s incandescent colour. The
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Taking on the Martagon
The wind whips the water and howls among the rocks. We leave its fury on shore, follow a zigzag path
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The pharmacy in your garden
Plants are far more powerful than most people give them credit for being. Their relationship to our health goes back
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Die hard houseplants for the brown thumb (part 2 of 3)
Much research has been done on the benefits of keeping houseplants. Studies show plants make you happy and improve your
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