Plant Profiles & Stories

Why Water Lily Projects Give Uneven Results: Choosing Containers, Medium and Plants

Why Water Lily Projects Give Uneven Results: Ch...

Water lily projects falter on mismatched containers, floating medium, wrong planting depth and plant vigor. Learn how to choose baskets, loam, fertilizer and placement for even flowering.

Why Water Lily Projects Give Uneven Results: Ch...

Water lily projects falter on mismatched containers, floating medium, wrong planting depth and plant vigor. Learn how to choose baskets, loam, fertilizer and placement for even flowering.

Where Maples Belong: Space, Scale and Placement Decisions

Where Maples Belong: Space, Scale and Placement...

Learn how to place maples using mature size, light, shelter and drainage, and choose specimen, border or container positions that show bark and autumn color to best effect.

Where Maples Belong: Space, Scale and Placement...

Learn how to place maples using mature size, light, shelter and drainage, and choose specimen, border or container positions that show bark and autumn color to best effect.

Misleading Succulent Names and How Conditions Reveal the Real Plant

Misleading Succulent Names and How Conditions R...

Learn why succulent common names mislead, how light, water and resting periods change the plant you see, and how to choose pots and gritty mix that fit its botanical identity.

Misleading Succulent Names and How Conditions R...

Learn why succulent common names mislead, how light, water and resting periods change the plant you see, and how to choose pots and gritty mix that fit its botanical identity.

Camellias: How Maturity Shapes Flowering, Growth and Later Use

Camellias: How Maturity Shapes Flowering, Growt...

Understand camellia maturity stages, from establishing plants to budded shrubs, and connect cultivation to flowering display or a tea camellia harvest.

Camellias: How Maturity Shapes Flowering, Growt...

Understand camellia maturity stages, from establishing plants to budded shrubs, and connect cultivation to flowering display or a tea camellia harvest.

Cacao Tree Movement: How Form and Texture Shape a Display

Cacao Tree Movement: How Form and Texture Shape...

Learn how cacao tree form, hanging new foliage and glossy leaf texture shape a tropical display, and how warmth, humidity and placement keep the plant looking its best.

Cacao Tree Movement: How Form and Texture Shape...

Learn how cacao tree form, hanging new foliage and glossy leaf texture shape a tropical display, and how warmth, humidity and placement keep the plant looking its best.

Reading Echeveria Leaves Through Fiber-Plant History

Reading Echeveria Leaves Through Fiber-Plant Hi...

Read echeveria leaves through the contrast with fiber crops, then organize the task in order: identification, light, drainage, watering, propagation and display.

Reading Echeveria Leaves Through Fiber-Plant Hi...

Read echeveria leaves through the contrast with fiber crops, then organize the task in order: identification, light, drainage, watering, propagation and display.