• How to Grow Umbrella Tree — Schefflera

    Schefflera is a genus of mostly tropical evergreen shrubs, trees, and climbers. Members of the genus are commonly called Schefflera. These plants bear glossy, green leaflets combined in umbrella-like clusters. One species Schefflera actinophylla is commonly grown as a houseplant. It grows 6 to 10 feet (1.8-3m) tall and can be trained into a treelike […] More

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  • How to Grow Bird’s Nest Fern — Asplenium

    Asplenium is a genus of evergreen ferns that are best known for the tufts of long fonds that often overlap to form a “nest”–thus the common name bird’s nest fern. Many Asplenium species also produce plantlets along their fronds; the plantlets can be separated and planted–thus the common name mother fern. Asplenium ferns grow from creeping rhizomes. […] More

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  • How to Grow Orchids

    Most orchids are easy to grow. All you need to do is give them what they need. In a nutshell, orchids need suitable potting soil or medium, adequate light, a warm environment–about the temperature of your house, water, fertilizer, and fresh air. These needs are just about the same for all houseplants. There are about […] More

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  • How to Grow Neoregelia

    Neoregelia is a genus of epiphytic and terrestrial bromeliads grown for the striking coloring of their lease and bracts when flowering. Neoregelia’s usually spiny-margined leaves are borne in rosettes; colorful bracts surround very small flowers at the center of the bracts. Neoregelia may bloom at any time during the year. The changing color of the inner rosette or […] More

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  • How to Grow Nidularium

    Nidularium is a genus of terrestrial or epiphytic bromeliads that produce rosettes of spiny-edged leaves; in the center of the plant, brilliant, red, bract-like leaves form a smaller rosette-like nest–thus the common name bird’s nest plants. Nidularium has dense, spreading, prickly-margined leaves that form a basal rosette that collects water. When the plant is about to […] More

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  • How to Grow Dyckia

    Dyckia is a terrestrial bromeliad with silvery-gray and occasionally reddish-brown spike-toothed leaves and thorny tips. The leaves are borne in rosettes. Orange flowers appear atop slender stems in spring. Dyckia is often grown as a houseplant, but it grows well in tropical and subtropical gardens and in desert gardens where temperatures are not cold in winter. […] More

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  • How to Grow Vanda

    Vanda is a genus of epiphytic, evergreen orchids that bear large showy flowers with intricately colored sepals. Flowers appear on a long spike in succession which means Vanda produces fresh flowers over an extended period. Vanda usually blooms twice a year. Vanda flower colors include blue, deep mauve and indigo, pinkish purple, violet-blue, and pale yellow. […] More

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  • How to Grow Vase Plant — Billbergia

    Billbergia is a tree-dwelling (epiphytic) evergreen bromeliad that bears brightly colored tubular flowers surrounded by rose-pink bracts that dangle in clusters over rosettes of strap-shaped leaves. Flowers appear between spring and autumn and last for three to four weeks. Billbergia has stiff multicolored leaves that form rosettes. The unusual tubular blooms appear erect on a spike […] More

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  • How to Grow Dendrobium Orchid

    Dendrobium is a genus of epiphytic and terrestrial orchids that produce single to many-flowered racemes or dense clusters of showy flowers mainly in spring. Individual flowers are 1 to 3 inches across and often twisted or curled. Dendrobium is a genus of about 900 species. Some are deciduous plants that flower on leafless growths made […] More

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  • How to Grow Cymbidium Orchids

    Cymbidium are terrestrial orchids with long-lasting blooms. They are easy to grow and grow freely outdoors in frost-free regions. In cold-winter regions, Cymbidiums can be grown indoors or in a greenhouse and set outdoors in summer. Cymbidiums are cool-growing orchids. There are hundreds of winter or spring-blooming Cymbidium hybrids. Large Cymbidium species and hybrids have flowers […] More

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  • How to Grow Vriesea

    Vriesea is a genus of rosette-forming, evergreen, mostly tree-dwelling (epiphytic) perennial bromeliads. Vriesea species have long, leathery leaves and oddly shaped flower clusters. Vriesea can be grown as epiphytes in pockets of sphagnum moss on tree branches or in pots of loose, highly organic mix. They must be misted daily if grown indoors. Vriesea is a […] More

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  • How to Grow Bouvardia 

    Bouvardia is a subtropical evergreen shrub that bears colorful tube or funnel-shaped flowers. Bouvardia can be grown in containers or in borders in regions where frost does not occur. In cooler regions, Bourvardia is grown as a house plant and set outdoors during the summer. Bouvrdias showy clusters of tubular flowers can be white or red. […] More

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