your indoor air and making your air healthy. Certain houseplants clean your indoor air, scrubbing the air you breathe indoors of harmful indoor pollutants, like benzene, formaldehyde and acetone. This video shows you which houseplants are easy to grow and do a good job of cleaning your indoor...
Mealybugs, which look like white cotton on houseplants, can be a pest that’s hard to get rid of. They suck plant sap and can weaken and even kill plants. This video shows you a trick for getting rid of mealybugs...
This video checks in on Matilda, a fiddleleaf fig revived/rescued nearly two months before. The plant is doing well and has put on new growth, which is an indication that she will survive and thrive. See how well...
This video tells you all about successfully growing Hoya carnosa, which is commonly called wax plant. This beautiful, easy-to-grow plant has waxy, gorgeous, scented flowers when it blooms. Find out how to have...
Learn about the various types of pots for growing houseplants. The video shows you plastic, terra-cotta, glazed ceramic and metal pots. Find out the pros and cons of each type of container for growing...
This video shows you how to make a mixed houseplant container. It’s fun and easy to plant containers with more than one type of houseplant. This video shows how to choose what types of houseplants to grow...
Fungus gnats, which look like fruit flies or small mosquitos, are gnats that create larvae in the soil that can feed on soil and even roots. The larvae become adult fungus gnats, and the cycle continues. Find out...
This video shows you how to water houseplants from the bottom and why you want to. When you water houseplants from the bottom, you avoid wetting the leaves. Wet foliage is more prone to disease. Watering from the...
This video explains what top-dressing is for houseplants. Find out when and why you want to top-dress your houseplants. Top-dressing, which refers to adding new soil and fertilizer to the top of a plant, is a...
In this video, we check in with a corn plant (Dracaena fragrans) that we treated with lime in Part 2 in order to make his soil more alkaline. This video shows how to use a soil pH testing kit to check soil pH. The video also...
