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Apply these specially tailored tips to your cyclamen plant, and it’ll thank you by blooming all winter long. Don’t worry; these tips are simple to understand and implement and will make your plant healthier and bloom better.

Few can whole-heartedly say they love organizing—and when it comes to the fridge, that rings especially true. From sorting through expired sauces to rummaging through dried vegetable leaves, organizing a fridge can feel like an impossible task or a dreaded chore at best. However, a new trend is aiming to make fridge organization a breeze—and even look cute, too. Enter: fridgescaping.

Repotting your houseplants is crucial to keeping them thriving. Whether you're new to plant care or a seasoned gardener, knowing the right time and method to repot your plants is key. In this guide, we'll share essential tips and tricks for repotting your houseplants, ensuring they adapt well and continue to flourish in their new pots. We’ll cover when to repot, the best practices to follow, and whether it’s advisable to repot during the winter months. Let’s dive in!

Chrysanthemums are quintessential fall flowers—highly resilient and fuss-free! Emerging in warm autumn hues of yellows, reds, and oranges, these perennials can tolerate the change from hot to cold much better than other flowers! But if your mums are not blooming, something’s wrong. Here’s how to identify key causes and tricks to boost flowering!

The infertility journey can be stressful, overwhelming, and lonely as it is not often discussed in the public eye. Individuals struggling to start a family may feel anxious, nervous, and isolated. Because infertility can be so unpredictable, couples may often feel confused and even a little helpless. The inability to reproduce naturally can cause shame, guilt, and low self-esteem. This can not only cause depression and anxiety but affects daily life. Managing stress healthily and using coping strategies can promote an overall healthy mental, emotional, and physical well-being.

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Even professional interior designers make home upgrades that they later go onto regret. Below, eight experts share decisions that seemed like a smart idea at the time but later on caused more harm than good—some of them may surprise you.

September is Whole Grains Month. Grain foods include rice, corn, oats, wheat, barley, millet, and sorghum. The Dietary Guidelines for Americans says that we should attempt to make half of the grain foods we eat whole grains. Let’s learn more about whole grain foods and their importance in your daily eating habits.

If you're feeling uncertain about how to design your dining room so that it appears current and serves a functional purpose, you want to make note of what not to do in the process.

Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson East and her husband, former NFL football player Andrew East, lead very busy lives: they’re both retired athletes raising three small children while juggling speaking engagements and, in Johnson East’s case, even being an Olympic correspondent. 

Chrysanthemums are one of the most popular flowers in the world, and they come in multiple colors. To enjoy most of them, follow these tips to boost their flowering. Each trick will help you ensure that these fall garden stars are in the best shape possible.

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Keeping up with a family’s worth of laundry is a chore no matter what the season, but when kids head back to school and everyone’s calendar fills up with work, class, and nonstop activities, it becomes a mountain of mess.

Tomato plants fruit from June until the first frosts, thriving in the warm, light conditions of summer. However, the ripening process slows down as the days become shorter, so fruit that develops from September may not ripen before the first frosts arrive.

Including carbohydrates or carbs in meals can be confusing. What foods contain carbs? Which carbs are good for me? Which ones should I avoid?

Moving into your first home or rental can be an extremely daunting task, especially if you have no prior knowledge of the ins and outs of the lease signing process. 

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Moving out on your own for the first time is a mixture of emotions: excitement about having your own space—whether shared with roommates or not—and naturally, a bit of apprehension.

As the fall season quickly approaches, many of us may feel a shift in how we want to approach our living spaces. With summer ending, fall can often push us to get things in shape and want a refresh—particularly around organization. 

Whether we’re sourcing fresh blueberries from the farmers market, a pick-your-own farm, or the supermarket, it’s tough to accurately estimate exactly how many fresh berries to invest in for our favorite healthy blueberry recipes…and the handfuls of snacks we’ll snag during the drive home, to refuel midafternoon, or to power us up while we’re cooking those aforementioned recipes.

How to Propagate Ginkgo Trees from Stem Cuttings

If you want a plant that enjoys the holiday season as much as you do and lives over 100 years, then the Christmas cactus is your go-to!

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The value of having compost available for use in the home garden is immeasurable, and the convenience of creating that compost on-site for instant availability adds to the reward. Of course, learning how to successfully compost and creating a process that works for your home and lifestyle can certainly be a challenge. For those with plenty of available material for the composting process, along with enough space, the popular three-bin system allows for maximum efficiency in creating nutrient-rich compost. Constructing or purchasing a three-bin system establishes a time-tested design and organized approach that accelerates composting quickly and consistently, while allowing for three various stages of decomposition in close proximity.

How the GardenAdvice Plant Swap Service Works

There are plenty of performance interior paints and coatings for walls, trim, and furniture that are purportedly durable against scuffs and cracks, and that boast waterproof, water-resistant, or water-repellent properties. While these qualities render them suitable for spaces and surfaces that come into contact with water and cleaning agents—such as a kitchen, bath, or tabletop—they aren’t necessarily durable for painting the exterior, or any exterior component, of your home.

The biggest and most expensive purchase most people make in their lives is buying a house. Families and individuals plan for years, sign off on decades long mortgages, and empty their savings account to acquire their own home. But the homeowner headache does not end when you sign your name on a piece of paper (or hundreds and hundreds of pieces of paper, let’s be honest with ourselves); a purchased home does not always mean a livable home. 

How do you begin the process of designing or refining your own gardens, especially when there are so many things that you need to take into consideration? In this class, award-winning UK garden designer Annie Guilfoyle will guide you through the elements that make for a successful design and show you how to develop a garden that really suits your taste and lifestyle. This webinar will focus on how to use sketching and observation as tools to develop your technique. The process of designing your space should be fun, according to Annie, so she’ll share insights for how to develop your style using the influences of things you really like, such as textiles, art, and architecture. There will be plenty of suggestions on how to start your design process and gather inspiration—and, of course, we will touch on those oh-so-important plants.  

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Embarking on a home renovation can stir up a flurry of emotions. The process is exciting, daunting, fulfilling, and exhausting. Even one renovation hiccup can turn into a significant misstep down the road, inevitably costing you time and money.

If items tend to sit in a corner of your home collecting dust for weeks or months at a time, it’s time to clear the clutter—for good.

All you need is a full fallen leaf for a brand-new jade plant! The process is easy and especially great if you don’t want to buy but still want a beautiful Crassula ovata. So, here’s how to propagate it from individual leaves to birth a lush new jade plant for your collection!

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Lavender is a beautiful and aromatic perennial plant. It’s pleasant scent easily attracts butterflies, bees, and other beneficial pollinators. This greatly boosts wildlife if you decide to grow it in your garden. Moreover, you can even grow it in a container or pot indoors if you live in a flat or don’t have enough yard space. That’s a great way to guarantee your home smells wonderful!

Also called the inch plant, Tradescantia is a fast-growing creeper with pretty purple, pink, green, and silver foliage, depending more on the variety.

Header image: The tiny floating duckweed plant is uniquely suited to meet the nutritional needs of astronauts. Dr. Jared J. Stewart, CC BY-ND