Plant Profiles & Stories

Cherry Blossom Identification: Read the Flowers and Branches Before You Plan

Cherry Blossom Identification: Read the Flowers...

Learn to identify flowering cherry groups by flower cluster, floral cup and petal structure, and plan cutting and planting around the amount and quality of blossom material a tree gives.

Cherry Blossom Identification: Read the Flowers...

Learn to identify flowering cherry groups by flower cluster, floral cup and petal structure, and plan cutting and planting around the amount and quality of blossom material a tree gives.

How Ferns Mature: Reading Fronds, Rhizomes and Sori to Judge Readiness

How Ferns Mature: Reading Fronds, Rhizomes and ...

Learn how ferns change through their life cycle by reading frond size, rhizome growth and sori, and use those signs to judge maturity, division and repotting readiness.

How Ferns Mature: Reading Fronds, Rhizomes and ...

Learn how ferns change through their life cycle by reading frond size, rhizome growth and sori, and use those signs to judge maturity, division and repotting readiness.

Light and Succulent Growth: Building a Seasonal Sequence That Works

Light and Succulent Growth: Building a Seasonal...

Learn how succulents respond to seasonal light, read stretching and sunburn signals, and build a staged yearly plan with useful placement and grow-light choices.

Light and Succulent Growth: Building a Seasonal...

Learn how succulents respond to seasonal light, read stretching and sunburn signals, and build a staged yearly plan with useful placement and grow-light choices.

Epiphytic Bromeliads: Place Them Where They Perform

Epiphytic Bromeliads: Place Them Where They Per...

Learn how to place epiphytic bromeliads by light, airflow, humidity and growth habit, build better displays, and read placement results from the leaves.

Epiphytic Bromeliads: Place Them Where They Per...

Learn how to place epiphytic bromeliads by light, airflow, humidity and growth habit, build better displays, and read placement results from the leaves.

Oak Acorns: Reading Fruit Structure to Guide Your Next Planting Decision

Oak Acorns: Reading Fruit Structure to Guide Yo...

Read oak acorn structure, from cupule to cotyledons, and keep a simple fruit record that makes species identification and planting decisions easier.

Oak Acorns: Reading Fruit Structure to Guide Yo...

Read oak acorn structure, from cupule to cotyledons, and keep a simple fruit record that makes species identification and planting decisions easier.

Tea Plant Leaf Size and Stage: Choosing Plants for a Display

Tea Plant Leaf Size and Stage: Choosing Plants ...

Tea plants carry young and mature leaves of very different sizes. Use leaf stage to pick a Camellia sinensis for fine texture, glossy evergreen presence or young-leaf harvest.

Tea Plant Leaf Size and Stage: Choosing Plants ...

Tea plants carry young and mature leaves of very different sizes. Use leaf stage to pick a Camellia sinensis for fine texture, glossy evergreen presence or young-leaf harvest.