ONE sure way to lift the winter gloom is to redecorate your outdoor spaces. Now is the time to get rid of those tatty pot plants and transform the courtyard or boring balcony with a few simple changes.Inspiration comes easily, as new pots and plants undoubtedly provide the fastest and ...
If there is no room for the plants in your living space, you can help them get through winter by storing pots at six to seven degrees Celsius. Examine them twice a month and water them very lightly when the soil fee...
you can let them go dormant by cutting back by about half, putting a bag over the top, and watering only if they begin to shrivel. Some people even remove them from their pots and hang the bare-root plants upside-down in a dark, cool place, spraying them with water occasionally...
Set your plants out after all danger of frost has passed. Start to acclimatize them to outside conditions two weeks beforehand. Leave them out during the day for increasingly longer periods and then, from the second week, overnight in a sheltered position. Plant trailing varieties up to five...
If you notice brown edges on the leaves, it’s a sign that your plants don’t have enough humidity. Another way to increase humidity is to place your plant pots on a tray of pebbles with a small amount of water under them (making sure to keep the water under the top of the pebbles...
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bringing them outside for a few months and then hauling them back inside.) There are all the potted annuals you buy every year for outside; the only thing that kills them is the cold weather, so you could bring those pots inside at the end of summer. Finally, there are plants that ...
In Berlin in Germany, pigs sometimes come into the city for food. They eat flowers and plants in parks and gardens. Sometimes they eat vegetables from gardens 【9】 they walk in the street, causing accidents. Some people like the pigs and they give them food and water to drink. Other ...
Coleus in pots as part ofcontainer gardening ideascan be moved indoors, while plants inflower bedsor borders need digging up and putting in a pot for winter. Another popular way of overwintering coleus is totake plant cuttingsbefore the first frosts to grow indoors and plant outside after all...
Keep in mind, plants in pots are more susceptible to freezing than they are when they’re in the ground, so pick outdoor winter plants that can survive a climate one or two zones colder than where you live, says Georgia Clay, new plants manager at Monrovia Plants. “If you live in Zo...