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House Plants
 Websites presented in alphabetical order Caring for Flowering and Foliage House Plants 
 Guide to choosing and maintaining indoor plants. Features information on repotting and staking house plants, toxic plants, and common pests and diseases. Provides tips on creating terrariums, dish gardens, and topiaries. Contains a handy troubleshooting guide to house plant problems. Searchable. http://www.thegardenhelper.com/houseplants.html Topics: Gardening Last updated Apr 13, 2005 Cultural Requirements of Indoor Holiday Gift Plants
This chart provides care requirements for common winter and holiday plants such as amaryllis, Christmas cactus, cyclamen, and poinsettias. Discusses light preference, watering, temperature, feeding, transplanting, maintenance, and related topics. From The New York Botanical Garden. http://www.nybg.org/hgc_online/fact_sheets_detail.php?id_fact_sheet=5 Topics: Christmas, Gardening, Holidays & Observances, Plants Last updated Nov 20, 2009 Home Gardening Online
This site features a gardening calendar and seasonal plants for the southeastern New York region (USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 6a and 6b), seasonal gardening FAQs, and fact sheets on topics such as orchid cultivation, tropical houseplants, butterfly gardens, requirements for indoor holiday gift plants, and garden site inventory analysis. From the New York Botanical Garden. Registration (free) required. http://www.nybg.org/hgc_online/ Topics: Gardening, Plants, Weather Last updated Nov 6, 2005 A Houseplant Harvest: Tropical Trees That Really Do Fruit Indoors
Profiles of fruit-bearing tropical trees that can be grown indoors, including the Natal plum, Surinam cherry, Barbados cherry, rumberry (or guavaberry), Barbados gooseberry, and dwarf pomegranate. From the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. http://www.bbg.org/gar2/topics/indoor/2004fa_tropical.html Topics: Fruits & Vegetables, Gardening Last updated Feb 21, 2006 Save Your Pineapple Top
Illustrated instructions for growing a new pineapple plant from a pineapple top. Discusses conditions for growing the plant indoors and tips for forcing this tropical plant to bear fruit. From the website companion to the gardening book "You Grow Girl." http://www.yougrowgirl.com/grow/save_pineapple.php Topics: Fruits & Vegetables, Gardening Last updated Feb 21, 2006 |
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