A wide array of flowering plants will bloom when grown indoors. Match the plant to the growing conditions and your maintenance style.

1) Plant within the correct time window. In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice arrives around June 21 with 16 to 22 hours of light (18 hours in the northwest of France, for example). That’s ...

ARGUABLY the world’s weirdest plant, Welwitschia mirabilis is a tangled mass of shredded, fraying leaves in the Namib desert. For a thousand years, perhaps more, it grows just two long leaves, which ...

A successful vegetable garden should not only contain vegetables. It should be a diverse planting scheme, or polyculture, that also includes herbs and a range of flowers. In an organic garden, ...

The next few columns will explore these factors, starting with light, to see why some plants do well or why we may have ...

Most of our autumn gardening time is spent cleaning up and putting plants to bed for the winter, but it can also be a time to be proactive about improving our gardens for next spring. The greatest ...

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Tomatoes are a favourite for home gardeners, prized for their fresh, juicy fruits. Yet, seeing healthy green plants fail to produce flowers can be discouraging. Flowering is a crucial stage, as it ...