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How to Care for Bromeliads After Blooming

Many succulents, including cacti, can survive outdoors where winters are cold. These long-lived plants bring four seasons of living sculpture to a sunny, well-drained garden, and they offer up striking flowers to a variety of pollinators during the growing season.  Recently, cacti and succulents have reigned supreme as houseplants, leading to a renewed passion for indoor gardening.

Just as we cherish a day of pampering, your green friends can greatly benefit from special treatments, too! These unique, out-of-the-box Plant Spa Day Routine tips not only boost plant health but also deepen your connection with your leafy companions.

Coleus plants are easy to care for, low-maintenance, and grow quickly, which makes them ideal for beginners.

Choosing the Christmas tree is a highlight of the festive season, with the whole family often taking part.

How to Care for Cyclamen During Dormancy

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Silver birch (Betula pendula) is a deciduous tree with a slender shape and graceful appearance, which has given rise to its lovely name of the ‘lady of the woods’. Silver birch trees look attractive year-round with white bark, spring catkins and yellow autumn leaf colour. The catkins and seeds are popular with wildlife such as bees and birds, while several species of moth lay eggs on birch leaves.

As inextricable from mass festive wares as tinsel and paper hats, the poinsettia blazes red in most shops and homes during December. Being such an omnipresent sight makes it unappealing for many of us, but, thankfully – if the standard scarlet species makes you wince – there are less common forms available that are well worth buying to brighten the house this Christmas.

Strawflower (Xerochrysum bracteatum) is also known as everlasting flower, immortelle and paper daisy. Strawflower plants have an upright habit and branching flower stems topped with many-petalled blooms to 8cm across. Hardy annuals, strawflowers bloom abundantly from summer into autumn, in shades of red, pink, yellow, orange, purple and white. The naturally dry texture of the blooms makes them an excellent choice as cut flowers to use fresh, or in dried arrangements that will last for years. Strawflower grows quickly and easily from seed and lasts for one growing season only.

Castor bean plants are easy to care for, low maintenance, and they grow very quickly.

Between my gardening practices, the plants I dig into my garden, and structures like my pollinator palace, I’m always looking for ways to support bees and other beneficial insects on my property. While bee houses have become quite popular, they don’t always come with the information on how to use one.