Growing Fruits and Vegetables Indoors  If you lack outdoor space for a vegetable garden or live in a region with a short growing season, don’t give up on gardening. Growing your own fruits and veggies...

Indoor Plant Décor: Designing with Houseplants  While the ‘70s houseplant craze brought indoor gardening to the forefront, the age of macramé hangers and mismatched pots left houseplants with a bit of an image problem. That’s one reason why authors...

Decorate Your Home with Houseplants One of the great things about growing houseplants is how good they make your home look. With their wide variety of leaf shapes, sizes, colors and textures, houseplants can be used to decorate just about any...

Houseplant Combinations to Light Up Your Home   If you’ve ever brought home a mixed planting with high hopes only to watch each plant wither away until you’re left with very little if anything living, Steve Asbell’s book,...

Force Amaryllis Indoors for the Holidays  Now that fall is here (on the western hemisphere), it’s time to get your bulbs for forcing. Several options exist for types of bulbs to grow as houseplants, but one of the most spectacular and reliable of...

Feeding Houseplants a Vegetarian, Organic Diet When I researched my book Indoor Gardening the Organic Way a few years ago, gardening organically outdoors had become the norm. At the time, when I asked horticulturists about growing houseplants...

Chinese Evergreen Decorates Your Indoors  If you’re looking for a low-light indoor plant that fits just about any décor, take a close look at Chinese evergreen (Aglaonema sp.). This versatile, slow-growing houseplant thrives in all but very bright...

Maidenhair Fern: Delicate Beauty for Your Indoor Garden With their paper-thin, finely cut, emerald-green foliage and wispy appearance, maidenhair ferns appear almost ethereal. In keeping with their princess-like good looks, maidenhair ferns are...

Arrowhead Plant An Eye-Catching VinerFeaturing arrow-shaped leaves that are often variegated, arrowhead plant (Syngonium podophyllum) is a vining houseplant native to Latin America. Like its relative the climbing philodendron, as it matures, the...

Fiddle-Leaf Fig Takes Centerstage in Your Indoor GardenThough the fiddle-Leaf fig (Ficus lyrata) comes from the humid jungle where it reaches 40 feet or taller, this head-turner does incredibly well in the much drier indoor environment. Give the...