Plants for Tight Spaces Looking for just the right plant to fit in that narrow space along your front walkway or unique plants to tuck into a retaining wall? Find those and many more in this pictorial guide to plants for tight spaces. ...
This plant is a large tree-like succulent with stiff, narrow, tapered leaves with terminal spines. botanical name Yucca brevifolia sun requirements Full Sun height up to 40’ tall hardiness zones 6-10 Joshua trees are large, treelike succulents that were named for the biblical figure Josh...
Results showed that planting spaces recorded various different effects on growth characters. The narrow space (40 cm) resulted in the tallest plants, the highest Leaves and essential oil yield per fed, while the wider space (60 cm) produced the heaviest leaves dry weight per plant, the highest...
Spider plants, or Chlorophytum comosum, are also easy to grow and care for. If just reading the word "spider" in the name is giving you the creeps, don't worry. These plants have narrow leaves and get their name from the “small plantlets produced on long trailing stems that vaguely re...
Narrow down which plants you prefer and find places for them. Even if your kitchen is not exactly the right space, these plants work for most other spaces of your house! There a multitude of benefits that plants bring into our lives, so make sure to embrace them, even if you just end...
Ideal for narrow windowsills, the slow-growing succulent remains neat and compact. In summer, creamy white flowers bloom on long stems. Haworthias need almost no care and rarely need repotting. Photo by Olga Miltsova / Shutterstock. ALOE(Aloe vera spp.) Size: 12 to 24 inches tall Water:...
You don’t need a large pond to create a unique and attractive ecosystem with plants. Even if your pond is less than 50 gallons, such as acontainer or tub, there are an array of plants well-suited to small spaces that will still do a wonderful job of filtering and aerating the water...
Smaller varieties are great choices for an informal border to a bed of larger plants, or to fill a narrow space between a wall and a path or driveway. This is also a perfect container plant, again especially with the smaller forms, and the upright stems with their glossy leaves work ...
See how gardeners around the country have created wonderful gardens in small spaces Small gardens have a lot more potential than you may realize. Whether dealing with a long narrow space behind a vintage home, a cramped backyard that lacks privacy, or a shabby garden at the rear of a ...
We altered the size of the sampling plot where necessary (i.e., where gardens were more narrow than they were wide, we created a 40 × 10-m plot). In this sampling plot, we randomly placed eight 1 × 1-m quadrats within which we identified all herbaceous plants (except ...