Every beginner goes through this stage sooner or later. You look at your ficus and realize that something has gone wrong and now the tree looks ill and exhausted. We will try to...

You have a young hibiscus shrub and are impatiently waiting for it to get covered in beautiful flowers? Or maybe your perennial tree does not feel good this year and does not bloom as much as it...

Pests and diseases can harm a miniature specimen just like they can infect any other plant. However, if you take proper care of your bonsai tree, the...

In many parts of Asia you can come across people who, when smiling, reveal deep red or purple mouth. This sight indicates that they were chewing betel nut (areca...

Don’t you think that a plant with dark green foliage elegantly flushed with striking pink or bright red tones will make a stylish accent to your décor? If you pictured that in your mind, you...

Have you noticed dingy blurs on your Chinese evergreen? Stop worrying and start acting. You can rescue your plant’s vitality and beauty.

Clematis is considered to be a plant which can is prone to numerous pests and diseases. If your cultivar is growing fast and is in full flower or near it and you have noticed irregular in shape,...

You may notice one day that flowers of your orchid have become fragile and started falling off, curling leaves have turned yellow and looked unhealthy. And you may wonder...

There is no bigger joy than to see your orchid thrive. Sometimes it is difficult to create the atmosphere in which the plant will be able to prosper. Growing phalaenopsis...

In nature orchids are pollinated by insects, in cultivation people do it. If you have successful experience in growing healthy plants that produce flowers year after year,...

Hibiscus maintenance means not only pruning or mulching around the plant, but also considering the most common hibiscus diseases & pests in order...

There are many species of hibiscus pests, such as, for example, white flies. But aphids are the most destructive of them, so they must be dealt with...

Ficus plant is an evergreen species. One of the cultivars - Danielle - will enliven your terrace or garden as well as ficus benjamina indoor will cheer up the atmosphere of your...

Sometimes your Ficus benjamina (or a weeping fig) can lose its leaves – they turn yellow and drop. Spider mites – small, red insects that suck the sap of the tree – are a common...

How wonderful it is to find the first buds on adenium! I’ll always remember how exciting it was! And will never forget my disappointment, when the first bud fell down.

There are many adenium...

There are only a few adenium pests which can really do harm to it. And one of them attacked my plant.

At first I saw that my adenium was losing its...

If you are going to grow adeniums, don’t forget, that sometimes you’ll need help to understand, what’s wrong with adenium. Such situation happened to me.

My dear adenium always looked...

One my friend had a birthday party. We had a great time when I saw a drooping adenium on the window. I asked my friend what had happened with his plant. He told me that it had been yellowing for a...

All of us become sad when our favorite house plants get ill. Yellow, brown, dry and spotted leaves often signal that the plant needs something. It can be water, light or fertilizers. Even one...

My aloe seemed dying. I was upset as all efforts to help the plant were ineffective. I tried to change the situation with the help of new fertilizers and transplanting, but everything was in vain. I gave...

I bought a croton more than three years ago. Everything was good with it: very beautiful, well-grown and not sick. I enjoyed the vivid color of its foliage when it suddenly began to dry up and...

I like plants as they refresh any environment and provide comfort to any room in the house. However, I don't have them as all plants require some care. And I don’t like this process. But once I had...

I adore crotons for their year-round tropical beauty and multi-color foliage. But recently I've noticed my croton turning brown, and it has really put me into a flutter. I got to know that if we don’...

I have had Dracaena Colorama almost forever. Not to confuse you with the terms, which I’ve found in various books, I’ll explain what kind of dracaena it is in my own words. It has green leaves...

I have never been a dracaena fan, just before I was introduced to a beautiful Dracaena Fragrans at one of my colleagues’ home. Now I know this plant is called “a Plant of Happiness” and it...

I have had my Acaulis for 2 years. She got about 4.5” by now, which is too much for my 5” ceiling. I heard that it is almost impossible to cut dracaenas at home and have new branches.

I like to take care of dracaena plants I have at home. I have several species and must say that at first it was rather hard to remember what which of...