Decorate With Evergreens

Decorate you home for the holidays with some evergreens. Why? Because during the holidays it is too easy to stress out and overspend your budget.  One way to save your nerves and your budget is to do some free to low cost decorating with evergreens. Evergreens are Healthy and Cost Cutting There are positive health benefits of filling your home with nature and plants. Plants are “green” decorations in more … Read more

How to Care for Cyclamen

Cyclamen abound in stores during the holiday season. I love them. They are festive, but in a more refined and delicate way than the boisterous poinsettias. Cyclamen are Captivating I am captivated by cyclamen. Their brightly colored flowers dance over the heart shaped leaves like little fairies, or maybe angels. The petals wing back from the hidden center of the flower, and come in many beautiful colors, and sweetest of … Read more

Winter Sunlight and Plants

Days are getting shorter. Or, more correctly from the viewpoint of an organism that needs sunlight for photosynthesis, nights are getting longer.  Either way – it’s a tough time of year for many plants, and for people too. Not Enough Sunlight Long nights mean there is often not enough hours of sunlight to make enough food to grow. Not just grow but to also do all those complex processes to … Read more