Plants

How to Grow and Care for the Vase Plant in Containers

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Intro: The vase plant, with its dark green foliage and interesting red blooms, is known to be a difficult container plant to grow for beginner gardeners. The vase plant's showy blooms last up to three months.

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10 Culinary Herbs for the Container Garden

Basil The following 10 container plants can do double-duty in a small-space garden: They are herbs that can create a beautiful garden space on an urban balcony as well as provide fresh herbs for cooking.

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Pumpkin Plants on the Balcony

Pumpkin flowerAlthough balcony container gardeners don’t have enough space to grow prize-winning pumpkins for their county fair or perfectly round pumpkins for carving jack-o-lanterns, small-space container gardeners can grow pumpkin plants for another reason: flowers.

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Five More Easy Container Plants

Try these five easy plants in your home or outside in the garden. Even if you have a black thumb, you can still succeed with peace lily flowers, jade plants, English ivy, lucky bamboo and poppy flowers.

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5 Low-Maintenance House Plants

Some apartment gardeners really appreciate house plants because the small gardening space outdoors is just not enough! Want a lot of luscious plants indoors without doing a lot of work or using grow lights? Here are 5 low-maintenance house plants that will brighten up your décor without lengthening your already long list of chores.

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