10 House Plant Species For Low Light
Essential Indoor Plants for Every Jungalow
Green décor is on the rise: the tiniest windowsills are now covered in plant life.
Plants are timeless, making them a virtual guarantee of success no matter your personal style. All of the plants below can be easily found in large garden centers, and many can be acquired from local fellow gardeners.
With limited windowsill space, partial shade plants are an essential indoor plant for every jungalow. Catherine Delvaux, author of 50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens, shares her top 10 indoor plants below that can live in a limited amount of soil and light, grow well, and resist diseases and pests.
50 Simple Indoor Miniature Gardens
Turn your indoor living space into a mini garden oasis! This book is filled with 50 inventive micro-garden ideas that were specifically selected for their simplicity and easy upkeep. Whether you like cacti, succulents, green plants, flowering plants, vegetables, or orchids, these inspiring ideas will awaken the creative gardener inside you.
10 Low Light Houseplants
Chamaedorea elegans (parlor palm)
t looks like a palm tree but flowers like a mimosa. It likes the shade.
Hoya carnosa (wax plant)
Also known as the porcelain flower, this species needs at least 44 to 55°F (7 to 13°C) to grow well and bloom.
Tradescantia sp. (spiderwort)
Drought, heat, humidity, hardship—these can resist everything, except slugs!
8 Lawn Games to Make For Summer Cookouts
8 Lawn Games to Make For Summer Cookouts Excerpt from DIY Backyard Games by Colleen Pastoor of Lemon Thistle A number of years ago, I built my first set of DIY yard games with only a circular saw and a pack of sandpaper. I bribed...
The Quest For a Classic Strawberry Jam Recipe
Savor the summer season with this strawberry jam recipe! From strawberry preserves to canning pickles, the new Preserving the Season book will inspire you to start canning.
Grow Your Own Cocktails & Mocktails
A beverage garden combines two of the things I love most: great drinks and a garden filled with the ingredients to make them. Enjoy a excerpt including recipes from the new Growing Your Own Cocktails, Mocktails, Teas & Infusions Book.
Earth Day Activities for Kids and Parents
One person can make a difference in helping Mother Earth! Here are three projects for kids and parents can do together to celebrate nature and the beautiful planet we call home.
How to Compost
Composting makes the world go round. It recycles the nutrients that make plants (and animals) grow, feeds the bugs that keep the soil healthy and is a sustainable, low-cost way of dealing with “rubbish that rots.” And it can be fun too.
Growing Tomatoes From Seeds
When you start your own tomatoes from seed, you can grow wonderful varieties that you just can’t find already started for you at a garden center.
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