Houseplants

Learn how to grow houseplants, troubleshoot pest and disease issues, and cultivate a green paradise in the comfort of your own home!

Healthy shampoo ginger containers, appearing to have vibrant red flowers with cone-like shape surrounded by bright green foliage

Houseplants

How to Grow Shampoo Ginger In Pots and Containers

Shampoo ginger brings the merits of exotic beauty and versatile uses as a sweetly fragrant, refreshing lather and culinary addition. Grow the tropical in pots and containers as a featured specimen and, for lasting enjoyment, to overwinter indoors in cold climates.

Close-up of gloved hands repotting an alocasia plant with large, glossy arrow-shaped leaves and thick upright stems, with a terracotta pot standing on the wooden table nearby.

Houseplants

How and When to Repot Alocasia Plants

Alocasias bring an instant tropical vibe to any space with their lush foliage and exotic form. They make excellent, low-maintenance houseplants that live for a long time and grow quite large. Join houseplant enthusiast Melissa Strauss to discuss when and how you should re-pot your alocasias.

A variety of witch houseplants including Aglaonema, Fiddle-Leaf Fig, Crassula ovata, Epipremnum Aureum, Monstera deliciosa, and Zamioculcas zamiifolia with diverse leaf shapes, colors, and textures displayed on a wooden shelf.

Houseplants

17 Houseplants Every Witch Should Grow

Herbs aren’t the only plants a witch should grow. Consider the magical elements of houseplants! They’ll influence your energies, lifting you up when you’re down and bringing you back to Earth when you’re in the clouds. Self-proclaimed witch Jerad Bryant shares 17 of the best houseplants to grow.

A large collection of jungle patio container plants with lush green leaves in different sized containers arranged on a stone patio.

Houseplants

15 Container Plants For a Lush, Jungle-like Patio

We can't all be lucky enough to live in the tropics, but you can create your own lush tropical paradise on your own patio. Florida gardener Melissa Strauss shares 15 stunning tropicals that grow well in containers, to give your patio a tropical makeover.