Plants
7 Hens and Chicks Plant Care Tips
Hens and chicks are smaller succulent plants (less than a foot across), and they are easy potted plants to care for in small apartment gardens. The leaves grow in rosettes and have different colors and flowers.
How to Grow and Care for the Venus Flytrap in Containers
Intro: Venus flytraps are carnivorous plants that trap and digest insects and arachnids, while also using photosynthesis to get energy. The plant’s motion is triggered when hairlike structures are contacted. Venus flytrap hairs actually must “feel” an insect twice within 20 seconds, otherwise the carnivorous plant does not recognize it as a nutritional object (could be a piece of debris that fell onto it).
How to Grow and Care for Potatoes in Containers
Intro: Potato plants are one of the easiest vegetable plants to grow in a kitchen garden on the balcony. Just give the potato plant some light, and you should have a small crop of potatoes in two to four months. You can grow these vegetables in a large, deep plant container, a durable plastic tub or even a tall garbage bag. They have clusters of pretty white flowers with yellow stamens.
How to Grow and Care for Garlic in Containers
Intro: The garlic plant is very difficult to grow in plant containers in kitchen gardens. If you decide to try growing garlic, it may not produce edible garlic for you. If your plant does produce bulbs, they might be small, or you may end up with only one clove. Even if they don’t produce edible bulbs, they are interesting container plants that may sprout a spherical bunch of small purple flowers (some varieties are white) that are suitable for flower arrangements. In addition to garlic bulbs, leaves and flowers of this plant are also edible. The soil will smell like garlic for a while after the plant is gone, and if you walk by a garlic plant, you may get a whiff of it!
How to Grow and Care for the Canna Hybrid Flower in Containers
Intro: Canna hybrid plants, also called Indian shot, canna and many other common names, is a beautiful flower that do well in plant containers. These plants grows quite tall – from 3 to 8 feet, depending on the variety. Gardeners have created many varieties with larger, brighter flowers and more attractive foliage. The large Canna flowers bloom on tall flower spikes from midsummer to mid-fall and come in pink, red, orange, gold, yellow and any shade of these colors. Leaf colors can also be purple, red, yellow, green and striped.
