Gardenig in Argentina. Tips & Guides

These Tiny Mini Succulents are super low-maintenance, making them perfect for beginners and seasoned gardeners. You can also grow them in tea or coffee cups!

Brazil’s rich floral diversity, with over 55,000 plant species, offers a plethora of options that you can add to your garden and home. Here are some of the most eye-catching Brazilian flowers you can grow!

The monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana) is a large evergreen tree with a distinctive shape – its often horizontal branches are covered in spirals of sharp, triangular leaves. When mature, trees produce large cones at the tips of the branches. 

How to Grow and Care for Queen’s Tears Bromeliads Billbergia nutans

Header image: Purple microbial mats offer clues to how ancient life functioned. Pieter Visscher, CC BY-ND

Attracting hummingbirds to your garden is a joy many gardeners seek. Salvias, with their tubular flowers and vivid colors, are a favorite among these beautiful birds. Let’s have a look at the Best Salvias for Hummingbirds!

The tropical rain forests of South America hold a treasure when it comes to plants that are beautiful, exotic, and can make for great houseplants. Have a look at the most amazing South American Indoor Plants you can grow!

Here are Types of Bamboos to Grow in Containers and Gardens that can uplift any home. Many gardeners love to grow bamboo plants for their striking beauty and features. Here are the best ones to adorn the pots and gardens of your home.

The winter holidays are here, and you may have some unexpected and unwelcome guests. Firewood brought into homes is a classic route for some beetle and ant species to enter a structure. Cinara aphids, which are generally large brown to black aphids, can often be brought in on Christmas trees. Even though they are plant feeders, many people think Cinara aphids are ticks and can cause them great concern when they see several hundred walking around the holiday tree. Other insects, typically outdoor nesters or plant feeders may be brought into a home on potted plants moved indoors to avoid freezing temperatures outside. Sometimes fire ants or Argentine ants nesting in outdoor pots get into homes this way.

I came upon Kollibri (below, curing tobacco leaves), and his farming partner, Nikki, thanks to their listing in the online collective called Local Harvest [dot] org. Why, I wondered, was my endless Nicotiana search, already many pages deep into Google results, taking me there?I knew Local Harvest as a great place to find a nearby CSA farm to buy a share of, or to order farm-made cheeses or meats or even wildcrafted salves and soaps and such—but Nicotiana? Turns out that Kollibri and Nikki are former CSA farmers from the Portland, Oregon, area, and so the connection. And I couldn’t resist their online claim, under their internet store called Daggawalla Seeds and Herbs, founded in 2012 [UPDATE: Daggawalla is h

I MET JACK THE DEMON CAT on September 11, 2001; he was here in the driveway, a stray who’d apparently chosen me, when I arrived from Manhattan late that morning. This year, September 11 was marked by flocks and flocks and flocks of raucous birds flying overhead, a winged migration of dramatic proportion that had me sitting outside listening, and watching (and Jack going mad inside, where he belongs, watching me watch).Imagine how frustrated Jack was when the black-throated blue warbler (below) stunned himself on the glint of the glass porch door. I gently righted him, and then we sat awhile together, talking softly, until he was ready to continue on, Jack staring in disbelief from indoors, where I hold him hostage to protect my avian friends.But our

When you spot its ethereal plumes swaying in the wind, it’s clear why pampas grass has rocketed to the top of everyone’s wish list.I nearly passed out when I saw how much a couple of dried stal

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With flowers in shades of pink, white, orange, yellow, red, or bi-colors and shapes of cups, roses, and stars, Purslane flowers can be delightful additions gardens. Check out the list of  Different Types of Portulaca Varieties.

There is no alternate to cacti and succulents when it comes to their watering requirements and tolerance to drought. This low maintenance nature is the reason why they’re popular houseplants.

Solanum Rantonnetii is a stunning specimen with clusters of blue-purple flowers. It grows best in both pots and gardens, making it best for everyone with a small or big open space!

Well, many veggies are flowers, and these edible parts of the plants can be eaten raw or cooked. Check out the list of Flowers that are Vegetables, some of which may surprise you. 

Philodendron Green Dragon is a splendid specimen that grows really well in homes. Here’s a detailed guide on how to maintain it easily.

The Dicliptera Suberecta is a species of the Dicliptera genus from the bear’s breeches family, Acanthus Mollis. The plant is native to Uruguay and Argentina and makes a beautiful addition to any home. Let us see How To Grow Dicliptera Suberecta and What To Do If Dicliptera Doesn’t Bloom.

For years, lemon verbena has been valued for its incredible fragrance and medicinal uses, and some people regularly enjoy it in tea.But I think this humble woody herb deserves a lot more love than

Argentine ants, Linepithema humile, are among the most problematic of ant pests, listed by the World Conservation Union as one of the world’s worst invasive species.Unlike most ant species that have only on

Mentioned in Egyptian papyrus writings from as early as 1500 B.C., Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) is one of the oldest cultivated medicinal plants known. This ancient herb has strongly aromatic and flavorful seeds and leaves which are universally popular for their well-recognized culinary, as well as medicinal properties.Fenugreek belon

Polka dot begonia is a beautiful evergreen tropical plant native to the hot and humid forests of Brazil. Polka dot begonia, also known as begonia maculata, receives its name from characteristic white dots on its bright-green leaves. Polka dot begonias are easy-to-care-for plants suitable for a beginner interested in indoor gardening and will make a fun and colorful addition to any home. 

Odorous house ants (Tapinoma sessile) are native to the continental US and are distributed from Mexico to Canada.These ants eat an unusually broad variety of fo