Author: Antonio Pachowko

The Best Bromeliads Houseplants to Grow in your Home

In this article, we will be discussing the best bromeliads houseplants to grow in your home.

Bromeliads plants, or the pineapple family to give its less formal name, are exotic looking plants that bring tropical touches to your home. Bromeliads are not difficult to look after and they add vibrant colours where vibrant colours are needed the most- in the home.

They originate from the United States, South America and West Indies, where on their natural inhabitant they grow on trees, stumps and other woody plants.

The plants are prized for the colourful bracts they produce and not the insignificant …

7 of the Best Houseplant Containers to Have in your Home

In this article, I will be discussing 7 of the best houseplant containers to have in your home. When most people buy houseplants they do not think about the containers the houseplant will be displayed in. If you get the selection of houseplant pot right it will not only enhance the beauty of the plants but will also blend or contrast with your home décor. This will add extra panache to your home.

In a previous article, we talked about complying a houseplant kit in which the importance of getting the pot right was discussed. This is such an important …

Getting you Containers Spring Flowers Ready

In this article, the various plants that can be used in containers in spring to give colour throughout this season will be highlighted.

There are a number of perennials, shrubs and bulbs that can be used to give colour and form to any containers, as the garden springs once again to life in the new growing season.

You need to plan ahead as spring containers are normally planted up in autumn. In order to have a successful spring container, bulbs need to be planted from early to late autumn, making sure that tulips are planted in November to reduce the …

Phostrogen Plant Food, a Liquid Fertilizer- A Review

Name of Product: Phostrogen All-purpose Plant Food, 200 Can.

The Best Place to Buy: www.amazon.co.uk

Product Dimensions: 10.1cm x 13.6cm x 23cm.

Shipping Weight: 2.05kg

My Rating: 10/10

In this article, I will be reviewing Phostrogen plant food to see if its suitability in container gardening or gardening in general. In a previous article have talked about slow-release fertilizers and its suitability to release nutrients to plants slowly over the growing season.

This is okay when the plant is healthy but sometimes like us, plants need a health tonic to be at its best. This is …

How to Propagate Plants for Free in the Container Garden– Part III Layering, Division, Budding, and Grafting

In this final part of the series on how to propagate plants for free in the container garden, we turn our attention to more advanced techniques to get more plants for free. In this article, we will be concentrating on layering, division, budding and grafting. In previous articles, we have covered sowing seeds and cuttings.

The propagation techniques described in this article are different from the other techniques previously described, as you are not increasing your plants by taking cuttings or by sowing seeds but by other methods.


After this final part, you will …

How to Propagate Plants for Free in the Container Garden-Part II Cuttings

In the second article in the series, we will be discussing how to propagate plants for the container garden in particular cuttings. The previous part discussed when we need to propagate plants and we learnt the most important aspect of propagating plants via the planting of seeds.

This present article we will be learning about the many techniques that can be used to increase your plant fold by taking cuttings. You will see that this can be done with herbaceous perennials softwood and hardwood cuttings and even root cuttings.

All the techniques you will ever need will be discussed, so …

How to Propagate Plants for Free in the Container Garden – Part I Sowing

In this three-part series, we will be discussing how to propagate plants for free in the container garden.  Propagation is defined ‘as the breeding of specimens of a plant by natural processes from the parent stock to produce new stock’.

Gardeners, in general, are life creators, as we actually produce hundreds or thousands of new life each year. This is why getting propagation techniques correct is important to increase the new life you create in your garden.

Propagation is a fascinating technique, where you can see the seeds you plant emerge to form young seedlings or cutting starting to take …

What You Need to Have in Your Houseplant Kit?

In this article, I will be discussing what you need to have in your houseplant kit in order to get the best from your houseplants. When people start buying houseplants or are given houseplants as a gift, you do not know what items you need to buy to look after the plants well.

This article is for you as I will be enclosing what products you need to get the best from your houseplants, as all aspects will be covered from beginning to the end.

BUY THE RIGHT CONTAINER

When you first buy a houseplant or are given a houseplant, …

Eight of the Most Beautiful Plant Stands For Displaying your Houseplants

In this article, eight of the most beautiful plant stands for displaying your houseplant will be discussed. We all know the scenario, slowly but surely your indoor plant collection is growing. You go online or visit garden centres and you cannot say no to that extra houseplant, so you buy it.

Your houseplant collection is growing but how do you present them in a way that is not only pleasing to the eye but also structurally sound.

You can have plenty of houseplants close together but this occupies a lot of horizontal space, so what are you to do?

The …

Drought-Tolerant Perennials for Containers in the Shade

In this article, drought-tolerant perennials for containers in the shade will be discussed. In a previous article, I have discussed perennials that can be grown in the shade but now I want to go further and discuss, which perennial can be grown on container on the shade but can tolerate long periods of dry weather.

They can be seen as a double-whammy as it is difficult to find perennials that grow in the shade but to find one that can survive long periods without water, seems impossible.

Shade is problematic in many gardens, especially if it is north facing, shade …