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Desert rose plant is a beautiful succulent that's easy to grow indoors. Discover how to care for desert rose as a house plant, when to repot, water, fertilize.
Continue reading "Desert Rose Plant Care: How to Grow Adenium Obesum as a Houseplant"
Get Blue Star Fern care and discover how to make this tropical houseplant thrive. Find out how much light, water, and fertilizer it wants year-round.
Continue reading "Blue Star Fern Care to Make Your Houseplant Thrive"
Florist's azalea care tips for growing azaleas as house plants. Get tips for sunlight, pruning and fertilizing, plus how to deal with bud and leaf drop.
Continue reading "Indoor Azalea Care: How to Grow, Water, Prune this Florist Plant"
Tips for growing Mandevilla plant in a container. Find out how to coax flowers year after year. How to train Mandevilla vine on a trellis.
Continue reading "Mandevilla Plant Care, Tips for Growing and Training Mandevilla Vine"
Ixora coccinea is grown for its big, bright flower clusters that bloom in spring and summer. How to grow Ixoras in containers, get tips for watering, light and pruning.
Continue reading "Ixora Coccinea Plant Care: Grow Flame of the Woods Flowers in a Pot"
Beautiful satiny gray-green leaves makes Satin Pothos a favorite house plant. It also happens to be easy to grow. Get care tips for light, water and pruning.
Continue reading "Satin Pothos Care - Scindapsus pictus 'Argyraeus'"
Discover how to grow Calathea majestica 'White Star' indoors, including how much sunlight, water, and humidity it wants, plus when to repot and more.
Big-leaf houseplants seem to get all the attention these days. But don't overlook smaller plants that are just as eye-catching, if not more. Some are compact, better behaved, and well, downright easy to grow.
Check out this variegated group that are splashed, streaked and marbled, making each leaf practically a work of art.
Newer Pothos cultivars offer leaves streaked with gold, marbled with white, and neon green, to name a few. Give this easy-growing houseplant plenty of bright, indirect light to maintain the variegation.
Have you seen Philodendron Brasil? Just as easy to grow, this tropical has spectacular lime green streaks down each leaf. This vine is eager to climb. But you can hang it up or set its pot on a shelf and allow those colorful vines to trail. Pinch it back to help Brasil to branch out for a fuller plant.
Once you see the heart-shaped patterns of Triangleleaf Fig, you'll want to add this handsome shrub to your indoor plant collection. It adds dazzling style to any room.