Ask the Expert: Peace Lilly life

I purchased a Peace Lilly a little over a year ago. It turned yellow and I thought it was dead. I trimmed off all the leaves, but left the roots in the pot. I planted a new plant in the pot and just figured the Peace Lilly was dead. A few days ago I noticed that the Peace Lilly is starting new growth. I removed the plant I had planted in the pot and am going to see what happens. Could there be a reason the Peace Lilly died off and now is starting to grow (more…)

Ask the Expert: can I put my philodendron (arrowhead)? outside for

I have a pretty houseplant vine, i think its called an arrowhead philodendron?, can I put it in a hanging basket outside for the spring/summer months?

Lisa,

You can use this plant outside during the warm months. The Heart leaf Philodendron (Philodendron scandens oxycardium) needs very warm conditions in fact it can not tolerate temperatures under 40 degrees. So if you are going to place it outside make sure that your time temperatures are not going to dip below 40 degrees for an amount of time.

For those of you who don’t know what a Heart leaf Philodendron looks like here is a picture:

More Heartleaf Philodendron plant care tips.

Last night while I was eating my Reuben sandwich, I realized that St Patrick’s Day was just a few days away. I love St Patrick’s day. What’s not to love about a holiday that promotes drinking larger quantities of green beer. Actually I don’t like regular beer - so I not so sure about green beer - but the pub crawl participants seems to adore it. I love St Patrick’s day because of the positive nature of the holiday. Four leaf clovers - shamrocks (good luck), the color green (money and prosperity) and corned beef and cabbage or bacon and cabbage (just good eats). This is a holiday that focuses on fun and optimism with (more…)

Representatives from Flower Shop Network attended the Northeast Floral Expo in Hartford CT on March 1st and 2nd.

From upper left to right: Joe Hays, Loranne Atwill, Brock Atwill and Leslie Cox.

New England florists and vendors attended floral design, business and technology seminars and presentations. New business relationships were forged and products were (more…)

Ask the Expert: HELP IDENTIFY PLANTS SO I CAN CARE FOR THEM

I have never been a gardener but we just moved into a lovely place where someone put a lot of heart and soul into their plants and I don’t want to kill them.
I know absolutely zero and need simple terms.
We have an apple tree, a pear tree, several raspberry vines, and a huge wall of concord grapes.
I have a lot of ground cover and bushes I have never seen. Any help would be appreciated.

This is a dormant rose bushes. The red berries are called rose hips. Basically the seed pods of a rose. Depending on the rose species, the rose hips can be (more…)

Ask the Expert: what is this plant

this plant is all over my yard I thought it was strawberry but its not. its really dark with a reddish tint.

I Believe this is a Common Mallow (Malva neglecta)

I found this Common Mallow Photo on a Michigan State University site. You can see the similarity in the leaf.

Ronald Calhoun in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at Michigan State University supplied this picture. In fact, it comes from the MSU Turf Weed.net program. This is a wonderful resource for weed identification and was (more…)

Today I finally had a chance to catch up on all of the blogs I read. Since it was discussing one of my favorite flowers, lilies, one particular blog caught my eye. As a cut flower, lilies are simply wonderful and I absolutely adore them in my garden. I grow Asiatic, Oriental, Trumpet and Tiger lilies in my home garden and at our garden center. But the difference between lily types is often confusing to many; especially which are used in flower shops and which are grown in the garden.

Kenji at Flower Insolita gives a great outline as to which lilies are used by florists as cut (more…)