Gardening Tips & Techniques

Do Polka Dot Plants Like Humidity? How to Provide the Perfect Environment for These Colorful Houseplants

What Is a Polka Dot Plant? Polka dot plant – Hypoestes phyllostachya is a popular houseplant, well-known for its colorful and eye-catching foliage. With its distinctive polka dot-like patterns on leaves in shades of pink, white, and green, this plant adds a vibrant and playful touch to your home or office. Compared to other indoor … Read more

black house with pink flowers

Cute summer towns are a haven for houses with adorable little gardens. They are always tidy and like a properly dressed lady (whose handbag always coordinates with her shoes), the plants often coordinate with the house. Here in New England, you can find all sorts of inspiration for color coordinating your plants to your house … Read more

A Complete Guide to Evergreen Shrubs with Pictures

Evergreen plants are an invaluable component of gardens and landscapes, providing structure and color through the winter after other plants have gone dormant. Shrubs that stay green, or keep their leaves all year, provide background interest to other plants, lending year-round interest to foundation plantings, beds, borders and containers. There are many choices of evergreen … Read more

When Do Roses Come Out of Dormancy? A Guide to the Rose Growing Cycle

Rose dormancy is nature’s way of making sure that roses see next spring by preventing damage from freezing temperatures. Inside the stems, cell sap will thicken making the plant additionally cold hardy and capable of withstanding long winters. The rose will then go into a hibernation-type state where it will slow down its metabolic systems, … Read more