Transplanting potted plants from on pot to another can be a bit stressful, especially if no one’s ever taught us how. The process is actually pretty easy and this article intends to teach you everything you need to know about the signs to look for when your plant requires upsizing, and the best practices for transplanting from one pot to
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Over the history of the earth, plants have evolved alongside all other organisms that exist on this planet. Each species of plant fills a particular place and role within the web of the whole. This is why thinking about plants as solitary organisms isn’t really the correct way of thinking about them; healthy plants are in symbiosis with a variety
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If you’d like to encourage a wider variety of organic life in your soil, there are a few key things you’re going to want to provide for them in the soil. Healthy soil-dwelling organisms want access to air, water, organic matter, minerals, enough light (but not too much), the right pH, the right temperature, as well as “companion” organisms (which
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Starting the journey of learning plant scientific names can be scary! Words in alien languages such as ancient Latin and Greek hardly come naturally to any of us, so it’s no wonder that we gardeners rarely ever get into learning the “true” names for the plants we see and work with every day. This article isn’t intended to preach to
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The legume family is one of the best families to learn early in your plant identification journey because they’re easy to identify and you’ll notice members everywhere you go. This is one of the largest dicot families around, and while most of the plants have a lot in common, there are branches of the family that don’t conform to all
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The Mimosoideae subfamily is a clade that includes many native Australian plants as well as some that have originated from overseas. The most noteworthy genus is probably Acacia, or the wattle group of plants. Believe it or not, this subfamily is actually a clade beneath the greater legume family Fabaceae, though on the surface they don’t seem to have much in common with other pea
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The mint family consists of many, if not most of the herbs we use on a regular basis which have mostly originated from the mediterranean where it can be quite hot and dry. They tend to be incredibly easy to cultivate by cutting and seed. Mint, basil, rosemary, oregano, sage, lavender, marjoram and thyme are all members of this superfamily
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Grasses are an easily identified family of wind-pollinated monocots that are especially good at playing the role of ground cover. Some are annual and some are perennial. Some varieties may go dormant or die off during the hotter or colder months of the year, whereas others will hold their soil year-round. Description Grasses come in two types: clumping and running.
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The lily family used to contain a lot of other monocotyledonous varieties that are now classified as families in their own right, including members of Asparagaceae and Amaryllidaceae. Description Herbacious bulbous (rarely rhizomous) plants having flowers of 6 tepals. They can sometimes look like a grassy shrub, and other times, they can form a longer stem. Bracts may or may
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Formerly a member of the lily family Liliaceae, these plants have a lot in common with that family. Description Herbaceous perennial plants are the norm, and they can often allow what’s above the ground to die off each year while their bulb lives on, such as Amarallis spp. Other varieties can have foliage that lives year-round such as Agapanthus spp. They can be very
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