With extended droughts, wildfires, and extreme heat, choosing landscape plants in California can be a challenge. When you use native California plants, you can be sure they’ll survive your local ...

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Traditionally, rangoli is prepared from dry-coloured powder, but lately, people are also trying fresh flower petals and leaves. It not only gives rangoli an interesting texture but also imparts a ...

But beginning gardeners need a few sure things, plants that are easy to grow and maintain, and that will give them the confidence to move on to greater challenges. Check out these 25 garden gimmes ...

African violets (also known as Streptocarpus) are charming, compact houseplants that can add a pop of colour to your home year round. They come from the East African tropical rainforests of Tanzania ...

This means the positioning of furniture and even indoor plants matter when creating a flow of harmony that matches the natural order of the world. And according to feng shui experts, there are ...

It’s apple harvest time, so Monty collects some of his windfalls to juice, plants a shrub in the Cottage Garden and pots up amaryllis bulbs for Christmas. Show more It’s apple harvest time ...

Streptocarpus can be annuals, perennials or subshrubs, with usually wrinkled, lance-shaped to rounded leaves and clusters of tubular to trumpet-shaped flowers with 5 spreading lobes, often borne ...

Streptocarpus can be annuals, perennials or subshrubs, with usually wrinkled, lance-shaped to rounded leaves and clusters of tubular to trumpet-shaped flowers with 5 spreading lobes, often borne ...

The soil should be kept moist. Streptocarpus, aka Cape Primrose, is a popular choice for indoor growing because the orchid-like flowers have a long bloom period. They thrive in indirect light and can ...