Your Guide to House Plants and Indoor Plant Care...

Learning to care for house plants is a journey. It doesn't matter if you're a house plant beginner, seasoned plant owner, work at a garden center or care for indoor office plants professionally.

Our goal is to help you learn more about house plants care, avoid mistakes, introduce new plant varieties and help you enjoy plants indoors and outside more. We'll also share the benefits of indoor plants along the way like their ability to clean the air.

One of the biggest problems homeowners face with house plants is pest. Controlling pest on houseplants can be easy, safe and all natural. Mealy bugs, spider mites and other plant bugs hate all-natural neem oil. We like the fact that it is also used for medicinal purposes. Face it homeowners have few safe choices but we like Neem.

Add a Touch of Difference in Your Landscape with Aechmea blanchetiana

Are you tired of seeing greens on your garden?  Is green an over used color in your landscape?  Then try something different…check out Aechmea blanchetiana.  The attractive orange or gold foliage of Aechmea blanchetiana that forms a basal rosette will add a crowning glory in your garden.  The red tips on each elliptical leaf will add more glitter to your garden as well.  At the center rosette of leaves are the pink or salmon-pink Aechmea blanchetiana flowers that have colorful flower stalks; each, consists of clusters of red and yellow bracts.

TIP: The golden orange foliage color of Aechmea blanchetiana can only be seen with the plant is grown in full sunlight.

Aechmea blanchetiana is a popular and easy-to-care landscape bromeliad.  Its spectacular floral display is long lasting and can be used for indoor cut flowers.  Aechmea blanchetiana grows best in a well-drained soil, thus it makes an ideal ground over or a container plant.  When mixed with green foliage plants, its foliage and floral colors would make an excellent accent even in partially shaded landscape areas.

Neem Oil Safe for Humans

Products made from Neem Oil have been used and consumed by humans for years in the production of soaps and oils along with medication. The exposure to neem in the process of treating plants with neem oil poses Read the story »