With the rising cost of plants today, many home gardeners are understandably tempted to seek out less showy garden centers, and buy their garden plants at cheaper establishments. This is all very well, but as with most things, cheap can prove to be very dear indeed. While a cheap plant nursery is not necessarily a bad one, it should pass three tests before you consider buying plants from it.

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Herbal medicine is a wonderful thing. Nature made some miraculous plants that can feed our bodies, soothe our souls, and enchant our vision. As with anything “too much of a good thing can be dangerous”. Herbs can be dangerous and in some cases even fatal. Each year people delve into the world of natural medicine searching for alternatives to traditional medicine. Unfortunately, each year people more…

Trying to identify a houseplant is a bit like trying to find the penny with a chip on it, in a bucket full of pennies. There are so many different varieties and families of plants, and sometimes different types can look remarkably similar to each other.

A few things to look for when trying to identify a houseplant, are the shape and size of it’s leaves, and the size of it’s stem, or stalks. Are the more…

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