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Design
Growing Plants Indoors and Out
Today’s photos are from Pauline, aka The Awkward Domestic. I’m a 32-year-old novice gardener living in the DC metro area. I have always enjoyed caring for plants, but I got…
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Design
Queen of the Calatheas
Today we’re visiting Liz, who grows over 30 different calatheas in her apartment! Her Instagram is full of lovely photos of her plants and lots of tips on keeping these beautiful,…
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How-To
Can All Houseplants Go Outside in Summer?
A whole lot of bonding has happened, and you’ve forged a closeness akin to family with your houseplants this year. But when summer arrived, you needed to turn your attention…
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Design
Fragrant Houseplants
By now you should be familiar with my pitch line promoting the therapeutic side of houseplants for anybody who’s stuck indoors for weather-related or other reasons. But beyond what houseplants…
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Design
Episode 57: Visit to Logee’s Greenhouses
We’re taking the podcast on the road again and this time we traveled to Logee’s Greenhouses in Danielson, Connecticut. Known countrywide as a mecca for houseplant and tropical plant lovers,…
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How-To
African Violets for the More Modern-Minded | Indoor Gardening
If you hear “African violet” and think “grandmother,” we need to talk. There’s no reason why you should flash immediately to frumpy when that family of plants is mentioned. The…
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Design
Discovering Fun and Unusual Houseplants
A lifelong love of gardening often springs from early experiences with houseplants or a vegetable garden. As a young adult living in apartments and rented spaces, I accumulated a large…
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Design
Bulbs and Houseplants Lifting the Winter Blues
Today’s photos come from the indoor garden of Laura Snyder, a professional photographer who finds great pleasure in shooting at home on her four-acre property just outside of Ottawa, Ontario.…
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Article
The Great Houseplant Migration
I’m not much of a houseplant person during the warm part of the year. In fact, virtually all my house plants spend the summer outside on the patio, where they’re…
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Design
How to Create Beautiful Houseplant Containers
I started collecting houseplants in 1979, right about the time I found James Underwood Crockett’s houseplant book, Crockett’s Indoor Garden, at a garage sale for 50 cents. I was a…