Aspidistra

Cast Iron Plant is a great houseplant choice for beginners, as it performs well with minimal care. They take well to drying out between watering, and don't need to be fed often. Outdoors, Cast Iron Plant works well as a border or medium distance plant...

Keep the planting well groomed and attractive by removing old, tattered leaves every year or so. I have, needless to say, amassed quite a collection. I will continue to grow perennials that produce beautiful flowers during their season.

For the kids there are a ton of different big eggs a foot or more in height in the markets, and they all contain surprise gifts. Most of the gifts are cheap plastic toys and jewellery, but one can easily find eggs with real jewellery, real toys and nice...

The soil for both these plants should be allowed to dry out slightly between watering, making them an appropriate choice for basements.Some other foliage plants that do well in basements include the cast iron plant (Aspidistra elatior) and peperomia species...

Spraying the leaf surfaces with horticultural oil will smother the insects. Avoid placing these plants where such damage can take place, or where a hose might be carelessly dragged over them or an exuberant dog might run through them.

The board members were filing out into the garden when one of them squealed, turned, and ran back toward the house. Most of us would drop it pretty quickly since it wriggles and writhes vigorously, and the tail may even drop off.

Plumbago bears blue flowers in mid- to late summer and has a spread of about 18 inches.Foliage plants provide dramatic backdrops to shorter flowers and groundcovers. During the dog days of summer, dogs themselves can often be found seeking refuge in the...

Since you need at least two plants to have viable seed (dioecious plants), most landscape plants will never develop these orange seed structures unless multiple adult plants exist in the garden.Inflorescence maturing to seed after being fertilized by...

As an exotic plant enthusiast I am constantly rediscovering out how difficult it is to find out about a lot of the plants I collect and grow.It is very frustrating, yet there is almost always someone out there who knows the answers, or at least can help...