Nature & Garden - gardening, grow plants, flowers, food & medicine

Plants for a fabulous oceanfront garden: seaside shrubs, beachfront grasses, ocean-loving trees…

Dracaena marginata, a striking tall house plant

Beneficial insects that lend us gardeners a hand

Bulbs, our original ideas to showcase them

Original ideas to showcase potted bulb flowers

Which air-purifying plant to get first?

Dracaena and ficus are two air-purifying plants, here filtering both light and air

Create your own bonsai!

Trees and shrubs

Bonsai with shears on a table

Leaf plants in winter

Unlike flower plants, leaf plants need more light and don't like going dormant

First flowers to bloom in spring, plant these for early blissful blooming!

Barn with blue and yellow spring flowers

How to prune lavender that is woody

Old lavender with woody stems and bare spots.

Fascinating Plant Phenomenon

Cross-pollination, the key to increasing fruit harvests & growing new flowers

cross-pollination

Vernalization: why plants need chill hours to bloom and bear fruit

Magnolia flower bud protected with fuzz

Guttation – how plants deal with too much water

Guttation on a grape vine leaf, droplets of guttant lining the edges.

Manure, fertilizer, and season's chores

Nutrients and soil health: mulch, compost, manure give best results

Celery sprouting from beneath a layer of thick mulch

Mulching techniques for permaculture, which is best?

Glove with worm in mulch for permaculture

Bone meal and dried blood, two nitrogen-packed natural fertilizers

Blood meal and horn meal, two excellent and complementary fertilizers

Surprising hanging indoor plants

Rhipsalis, a plant that looks like hair

Rhipsalis plant

Tillandsia, succulent-like leaves… with no roots at all!

Tillandisa, the air plant

Codonanthe, flowering cascade of emerald leaves

Codonanthe suspension with white flowers

Any questions? Ask them on the forum!

Last topics on forum

Follow us on Facebook

1187 fans - Like us, too!