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Indoor azalea, Rhododendron simsii: care from A to Z - 10 buying tips

Indoor azalea, Rhododendron simsii: care from A to Z - 10 buying tips

2025-06-01 06:06

In the winter months, our flower shops often offer a lushly flowering potted plant: the indoor azalea. We show what is involved in caring for Rhododendron simsii

Thuja occidentalis Columna - Care and cutting of the columnar thuja

Thuja occidentalis Columna - Care and cutting of the columnar thuja

2025-06-01 06:06

Better known as columnar thuja, the Thuja occidentalis Columna is characterized by its narrow columnar shape and medium-strong growth. Tips and information on care and cutting:

Potted gerbera - Instructions for caring for gerberas in pots

Potted gerbera - Instructions for caring for gerberas in pots

2025-06-01 06:06

Potted gerbera - Care for gerberas in pots - Because of their long shelf life, gerberas are popular cut flowers - even in pots. Find out everything you need to know

Wild strawberry, Fragaria vesca - care instructions

Wild strawberry, Fragaria vesca - care instructions

2025-06-01 06:06

Their name is a deception: wild strawberries can also be cultivated in the garden. You can find out how this can be done easily here

Cutting conifers: When is the best time?

Cutting conifers: When is the best time?

2025-06-01 06:06

Conifers like a sunny and airy environment and should therefore be cut regularly. You can find all the information about it here

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List of lily species and colors - information about Lilium

List of lily species and colors - information about Lilium

Lilies produce very beautiful, large flowers that smell pleasant and are also suitable as cut flowers for the vase. You can find out how they are distinguished here

Sugarcane plant - profile and cultivation in the garden

Sugarcane plant - profile and cultivation in the garden

Growing sugar cane in the garden - Sugar cane molasses - Sugar cane is one of the sweet grasses and is grown in Asia and generally in tropical countries to make sugar from it. Sugarcane is e

Setting bed slabs - which material to choose?

Setting bed slabs - which material to choose?

Bed slabs - types, prices, laying - In order for a flower bed to impress not only in terms of the splendor of the plants, but also in terms of its external design, special emphasis should be placed on the so-called B

Instructions: Build your own herb snail

Instructions: Build your own herb snail

Building a herb snail - building instructions. A herb snail is pretty to look at and serves a good purpose at the same time. Many different herbs can be stored in a herb snail

Creating a potato tower - instructions for building it yourself

Creating a potato tower - instructions for building it yourself

Potato tower for growing potatoes - Freshly made potatoes simply taste delicious, much better than those from the supermarket. If they come from your own garden, it is guaranteed that they are organic

Jerusalem artichoke - ingredients and recommended varieties

Jerusalem artichoke - ingredients and recommended varieties

Jerusalem artichoke - a great tuber. The Jerusalem artichoke has almost completely disappeared from the scene since the 18th century - although it has achieved a lot in the past: before

Goji berries - information about location, care and pruning

Goji berries - information about location, care and pruning

Goji berries plant - care - The new miracle weapon from Asia is called the goji berry and is a small, extremely red and eye-catching fruit that tastes sweet. It offers the advantage that it not only

Build your own squirrel house and hang it up properly

Build your own squirrel house and hang it up properly

Build your own squirrel house - watching squirrels in the garden is great fun. But in our increasingly urban residential areas, the funny little animals only find a bed

Construction instructions: Make and hang the bat box

Construction instructions: Make and hang the bat box

Build your own bat box Bats fluttering in the twilight and the full moon in the sky, the backdrop for a vampire film is perfect. If you like mystical scenes, you will love the night time

Create your own raised herb bed - that's how it works

Create your own raised herb bed - that's how it works

Create a raised herb bed - harvest herbs comfortably - Raised beds make working in the garden very convenient because it eliminates the annoying bending over, which is particularly common for older people and large numbers of people

Tibouchina urvilleana - location and care

Tibouchina urvilleana - location and care

Princess Flower 'Princess Bush': Care - There are more of the Princess Flower in its homeland, which is in the tropical areas of Brazil

Tibouchina urvilleana - Propagate and overwinter

Tibouchina urvilleana - Propagate and overwinter

Tibouchina Urvilleana - care, cutting, overwintering - The Tibouchina Urvilleana is also called the princess flower or violet tree. That she is in her

Musa Tropicana - Caring for the ornamental banana in the room

Musa Tropicana - Caring for the ornamental banana in the room

Musa Tropicana 'Ornamental Banana' - Care, Overwintering - Musa Tropicana is not a botanical name, but a name under which various ornamental bananas are sold

Lilies - planting, care and cutting

Lilies - planting, care and cutting

There is something majestic about lilies and they come in so many different forms that it's hard to understand them all. Tips on care and information about the plant can be found here

Instructions for designing flower beds

Instructions for designing flower beds

Create and design a flower bed - With a successful combination of the most beautiful bulbous and tuberous plants, such as tulips and hyacinths, the garden shines enchantingly all year round

Growing tree spinach – sowing, care and harvesting

Growing tree spinach – sowing, care and harvesting

Tree spinach - care, location - is it hardy? - The tree spinach (Chenopodium giganteum) is also called giant goosefoot and is different

Potato varieties in Germany - list of varieties

Potato varieties in Germany - list of varieties

Potato varieties in Germany - Some potatoes have interestingly colored skins and unusually colored flesh, from white to yellow to blue-violet. In addition, the varieties differ in German

Remedies against fungus gnats and fruit flies in potting soil

Remedies against fungus gnats and fruit flies in potting soil

Remedies for mourning flies in the potting soil Mourning flies are annoying. The adult insects do not cause any damage, but their larvae do. They eat the fine roots of plants

Fight small flies in flower pots and potting soil

Fight small flies in flower pots and potting soil

Fighting small flies in flower pots and potting soil A real nuisance: small flies in flower pots or potting soil. Sometimes only a few of these little fellows can be seen, then again

Fighting fungus gnat larvae - this is how it works

Fighting fungus gnat larvae - this is how it works

Fighting fungus gnat larvae: 8 biological & homemade remedies - The fungus gnat as an adult in itself is only annoying, but not dangerous