Houseplants
Houseplant Guides and Articles
Houseplants are back in vogue and are a great addition to any home. However, did you realise that many of the easiest to grow houseplants can help purify the air and remove airborne pollutants? This guide lists 10 of the best.
Sansevieria has a raft of common names that are descriptive of its looks. One of its most well known common names is Mother in Law's Tongue due to the leaves resembling a pointed tongue! It is one of the best houseplants you can have to remove harmful pollutants from the air.
The Chlorophytum or spider plant is an easy to grow houseplant with surprising health benefits. Spider plants help purify the air by removing harmful pollutants. NASA studies proved they removed formaldehyde, xylene and toluene.
Is there such as thing as an outdoor cacti in the UK, that you can just leave out all year and not worry about? Well there might be. You can grow the Peanut Cactus inside and outside in the UK. Find out more here.
You can take leaves from a healthy African Violet, place them in water and the leaves will produce roots. These rooted leaves can then be potted up and will produce a tiny plantlet that is a mini copy of its parent. Find out how here.
Sansevieria are an easy to grow and undemanding architectural houseplant. It has an unusual method of propagation as it can be propagated by leaf cuttings. Why not try this fun way of creating new plants?
Air plants make an unusual houseplant but are surprisingly easy to grow. They grow without soil and are easy to water. Why not make your own air plant display? Find out more below.
In this article we will show you how to increase the number of cacti you have by removing the offsets. The cacti in this example is a Chamaelobivia, its common name is the peanut cactus due to the stems resembling peanuts in their shells.
A Christmas favourite that lights up the home with its showy flowers during the autumn and winter months. Commonly and erroneously called Amaryllis. These easy to grow bulbs will flower between 6 and 8 weeks after planting and can be kept from year to year, flowering again and again.
Paperwhite Narcissus will add colour and fragrance to your home over the Christmas and New Year period. Paperwhite will flower earlier than garden Narcissus. You need to plan ahead if you want your bulbs to flower for Christmas, they take anything from 6 to 13 weeks to flower.
If you want to have Hyacinths flowering for Christmas you need to plan ahead. They need to be planted during September and different varieties will take different amounts of time from planting to flowering. Flowering time is usually between 11 and 13 weeks depending on the variety.
You need to purchase specially prepared Hyacinth bulbs for them to flower at Christmas. Prepared Hyacinths have been through a sequence of cold treatments so they flower early. In this article we show you how to grow a hyacinth in a glass jar to flower at Christmas.
