Discussions on everything houseplant and indoor gardener related — including overwintering tender plants and forcing bulbs indoors.
Gray is known as a scale rather than a color in the world of photography. I like that word for it; it evokes music. The outside world in Western New [...]
How could a person with so little respect for houseplants have so many? That’s what I’m wondering as I settle into another winter of indoor plant care. I’ll never act [...]
There are centuries of historic reasons - most of them religious - why people drag evergreen trees into their homes at this time, but for me, it boils down to [...]
There’s a process to coming home after a long journey. There’s a process to settling back into one’s routines and ruts and beloved pillows and remembering the systems that facilitate [...]
In late fall, dire decisions have to be made that mean certain death for some plants, possible extended life for others and assured survival for a treasured few. As I [...]
My constant ranting about hyacinths at this time of year is veering close to the definition of insanity. Regular reports of my delight at how successfully they force and how [...]
Just because we CAN do a thing, doesn’t mean we SHOULD do a thing or even MUST do a thing. This applies as equally to saving tender plants as it [...]
It’s probably now obvious to everyone why Buffalo gardeners might not put too much effort into gardening for “winter interest.” Here, winter survival - or, more accurately, blizzard survival - [...]
Indoor plants were a way of life at my previous job. It wasn’t that we really paid all that much attention to them, but they were everywhere - mainly your [...]
The answer: ME! I've murdered enough houseplants in my decades of trying to keep them alive to be curiously open to the idea of fake plants for indoors. So the [...]
This may sound more like a promotion than a rant, but that’s too bad. I must express how much I appreciate good garden centers at this time of the year. [...]
Yesterday, a friend in the UK turned my attention to the type of sensationalist tabloid online article that we should be trying to turn our attention away from. No, no [...]
