Homeplantsguide - Page 2 of Your Guide to Growing Plants at Home
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Here are the best detailed tips on growing plants at home. Learn how to plant, grow, care, prune and propagate your favorite plants.
This Garden Plants A-Z Guide has everything you need to make your garden spectacular. The Common Names are listed alphabetically and followed by the Botanical Names in brackets.
Low-maintenance plants for a sunny balcony are sun loving plants that require some direct sunshine to thrive and flourish. Flowering plants are perfect for dressing a sunny balcony.
Succulents for full sun are able to withstand drought, high temperatures and direct sunlight due to their ability to store water in their leaves and or stems.
Syngonium (Arrowhead Plant) has many variegated cultivars with the main difference being in the position and extent of the colored markings. Some leaves are almost entirely white, pink, red or yellow.
Aglaonema or Chinese Evergreens are spectacular, relatively compact plants with large, spear-shaped leaves in vibrant colours and patterns, borne on short stems.
Caladiums also called Elephant Ear, Angel Wings or Heart of Jesus Plant are popular vibrant plants with striking arrow-shaped, paper thin and beautifully marked leaves.
Tropical foliage plants grow best in brightly-lit, average warmth and more humid conditions and are grown for their spectacular foliage rather than for the flowers.
Low light indoor trees are large or tall plants which easily to adapt to low light or dark spaces and continue to brighten up the shaded spaces.
Sun loving indoor plants have their origin in the warm tropical climates where they get exposed to direct sunlight for part or for the whole day.
The most popular houseplants are the low maintenance, easy to care for plants that are ideal even for a beginner and are low cost to acquire and keep alive.
Aeoniums or Tree Houseleeks are stunning plants with succulent, shiny, spoon-shaped leaves typically arranged on a basal stem in a dense spreading rosette.
Cactus or Cacti are hardy, succulent plants with thickened, fleshy parts adapted to store water which is an adaptation to their native very dry growing conditions.
Snake Plants are evergreen, flowering plants of about 70 species which were originally placed in the Sanseviera Genus but have recently been reclassified into the Dracaena Genus.
Snake Plants are easily propagated at the beginning of the growing season by plant division or from leaf cuttings which can be rooted either in water or in soil.
Check out our choice of the best 10 potting mixes for Snake Plants grown indoors based on their ingredients, drainage and soil amendments.