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Chinese Evergreen Care: An Easy Aglaonema for Lower Light
How to care for an aglaonema Chinese evergreen, one of the most forgiving houseplants, with light, watering, and a note on its colorful varieties.
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Care profiles for popular houseplants, from pothos and snake plant to ferns and succulents: light, water, soil, and propagation for each.
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Christmas Cactus Care: Getting It to Bloom Each Year
A care guide for the Christmas cactus (schlumbergera), with watering unlike a desert cactus and the cool nights and darkness that trigger flowering.
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Croton Care: Keeping the Color Without Dropping Leaves
How to care for a croton indoors, with the bright light that keeps its leaves colorful and the stable conditions that stop it dropping them.
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Dieffenbachia Care: Growing Dumb Cane Safely Indoors
A care guide for dieffenbachia (dumb cane), covering light, watering, and the toxic sap that means you should keep it away from children and pets.
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Fittonia Care: Reviving the Dramatic Nerve Plant
How to care for a fittonia nerve plant, with the humidity and steady moisture that stop the famous dramatic faint when it dries out even slightly.
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Lucky Bamboo Care: Growing Dracaena Sanderiana in Water
A care guide for lucky bamboo, covering how to grow it in water or soil, the light it needs, and why the leaves yellow, despite it not being a bamboo.
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Maidenhair Fern Care: Keeping the Delicate Fronds Alive
How to care for a maidenhair fern, the delicate Adiantum that crisps the moment it dries out, with the humidity and constant moisture it demands.
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Money Tree Care: Looking After a Braided Pachira
A care guide for the braided money tree (pachira aquatica), covering light, the watering that prevents rot, and what the yellow leaves mean.
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Monstera Adansonii Care: The Swiss Cheese Vine
How to care for a monstera adansonii, the trailing Swiss cheese vine, with the light, watering, and support that give it bigger, hole-filled leaves.
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Peperomia Care: A Guide to the Easy Radiator Plants
A care guide for peperomia, the compact semi-succulent houseplants, covering light, the watering habits that prevent rot, and why they stay small.
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Pilea Peperomioides Care: The Chinese Money Plant
How to care for a pilea peperomioides, the coin-leaf Chinese money plant, with light, watering, and how to harvest the offsets it pups freely.
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Polka Dot Plant Care: Keeping the Spots Bright and the Plant Bushy
A care guide for the polka dot plant, with the light that keeps its pink or white spots vivid and the pinching that stops it growing tall and leggy.
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Ponytail Palm Care: The Drought-Tolerant Not-a-Palm
A care guide for the ponytail palm, covering the bright light and very infrequent watering this succulent-like plant needs, despite the palm name.
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Prayer Plant Care: Growing Maranta Without Crispy Edges
How to care for a maranta prayer plant, with the humidity, water quality, and light that keep its leaves from going crispy at the edges.
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Staghorn Fern Care: Watering and Mounting the Antler Fern
A care guide for the staghorn fern, covering how to water its two leaf types, why it is usually mounted on a board, and the light it needs indoors.
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String of Hearts Care: Growing Ceropegia Woodii Indoors
A care guide for string of hearts, covering the light it needs to keep tight heart-shaped leaves, sparing watering, and how to propagate from the tubers.
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String of Pearls Care: Keeping the Beads Plump, Not Shriveled
How to grow a string of pearls indoors, with the bright light and careful watering that keep the beads round instead of shriveled or mushy.
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Tradescantia Care: Keeping Inch Plant Colorful and Full
How to grow tradescantia (inch plant) indoors, with the bright light that keeps its purple and silver color and the pinching that stops it going leggy.
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Kalanchoe Care: Watering, Light, and Getting It to Rebloom
Learn how to water and light a kalanchoe like the succulent it is, plus the darkness trick that forces it to flower again.
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Parlor Palm Care: An Easy Indoor Palm for Lower Light
A care guide for the parlor palm, one of the few indoor palms that tolerates low light, with watering and brown-tip fixes.
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Umbrella Plant Care: Growing Schefflera Indoors
How to keep a Schefflera umbrella plant bushy and upright indoors, with light, watering, and pruning tips to prevent leggy stems.
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Yucca Plant Care: Growing the Indoor Yucca Without Root Rot
A care guide for indoor yucca covering light, infrequent watering, and the overwatering mistakes that kill an otherwise nearly indestructible plant.
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Aeonium Care: Growing Black Rose and Other Varieties
How to care for aeonium succulents including the dark Zwartkop, with advice on their summer dormancy, watering, and light needs.
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Bird's Nest Fern Care: A Forgiving Fern for Lower Light
How to care for a bird's nest fern indoors, a forgiving fern that tolerates lower light and needs less fuss than most ferns.