It's still cold outside, so bring in some nature with a small indoor garden. Seeing greenery indoors adds cheer and reminds you that spring is just around the corner. Succulents, air plants and herbs are easy to grow, and their compactness makes them perfect for mini gardens. More

What's your first inscinct when something breaks? Some will say repair it, some say replace it ... and then there are those who see a dirty, broken keyboard or blender and think to themselves, "I can still use this." More

Every home should incorporate some greenery, and we have solutions even for the black thumbs out there! Succulents are resilient, low maintenance, and come in a variety of shapes and colors, making them the ideal candidate for your own planted composition. More

Anyone else have a garage, basement, or storage space that looks like this? There's hope: Marji was fed up with the clutter in her tool shed, and she decided to first purge and then create a clever system that works for her.

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I do love flowers on Valentine's Day, but fresh-cut blooms tend to become a gazillion times more expensive on that one day, which got me thinking of beautiful alternatives to a traditional bouquet. More

Keeping houseplants free of dust, dirt and cobwebs is essential to their health. When we've talked about cleaning houseplants here at Apartment Therapy in the past, the excellent idea of putting the pot, plant and all, right in the shower has been suggested. But it's not possible to lug an 8-foot potted ficus up the stairs to the shower. It's been about two months since this ficus tree's last cleaning, so I documented the process for cleaning a very large (yet very delicate) houseplant: More

I am an urban gardener who has dreams about owning a couple of egg-laying chickens. What does this have to do with a post about beehives? I understand many of the problems that urban gardeners and growers have to deal with on a daily basis. The Urban Beehive is designed to make the beekeeping process a little easier for novices. More

Sometimes I come upon a DIY so brave, so interesting, and so unusual it seems like something straight out of science fiction. This rad "Bio Computer" is such a project. Wanting to bring some greenery to a dark office, Mike Schropp turned his computer into an impromptu planter More

There is a quiet nursery near where I live - it is one of those places that you can easily drive by every day for a lifetime and never pay attention to, until one day you just pull in - and then suddenly you can't imagine that you missed something so extraordinary for so long. Bonsai West is that kind of place. I first stopped in a couple summers ago and was blown away but went back today to share its magic with you. More

There are exciting things going on in the horticulture industry. Seems the breeders and growers have caught wind of the fact that we are all a little tired of Amaryllis, Paperwhites, Pointsettias and the rest of the tried and true, but rather expected, selection of winter blooming holiday house plants. The trendy new option is Hellebores. More