Tag: propagation

Iris Blooms Almost Any Color

UNITED STATES—Iris got its name from the Greek word for rainbow, because all the colors are included. There are thousands of varieties of bearded...

Perennials Should Last Through The Years

UNITED STATES—A plant that is an annual lives less than a single year. One that produces vegetative foliar growth one year, and then blooms...

How To Deceive Smart Seeds

UNITED STATES—Plants could not proliferate as they do if they were as unintelligent as they seem to be. Actually, much of their activity would...

There Is Variety In Succulents

Cacti have thick, fleshy stems outfitted with nasty spines instead of leaves. Agaves and related aloes have stout, fibrous stems that are mostly obscured...

Air layer overgrown houseplants.

Most of the favorite houseplants are grown for dense evergreen foliage. Stems of Chinese evergreen, anthuriums, bromeliads and most ferns should never be seen....

The Need for Seed

Lily of the Nile is so easy to propagate by division of congested old plants that not many of us bother to grow it...