A tyre rubber skip is useful to have around the garden
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Every week, Telegraph gardening expert Helen Yemm gives tips and advice on all your gardening problems whether at home or on the allotment. If you have a question, see below for how to contact her.
Tip: useful kit to start the year
Wherever your garden sits on the one-to-10 scale of manicured or wild, it will benefit from action against the unacceptables to create space for more of the desirables. This means grubbing about on the ground. Some posh new kit could make this activity less of a chore this year:
How to Care for Fiddle Leaf Figs
Let’s start today’s article with a one-question quiz. When it is growing in nature, is the common houseplant fiddle leaf fig, Ficus lyrata, A) a tropical tree; B) an epiphyte that grows on the branches of another tree; C) a killer plant that strangles other plants; or D) all of the above?
The answer is D, all of the above. In nature, fiddle leaf figs often start out as epiphytes growing in the upper branches of other trees. They send roots down the trunk and into the ground. They eventually kill the other tree and take its place. In the wild, they can reach 40 to 50 feet tall, but indoors in a pot, they grow slower and may only reach 10 feet tall. There are several shorter varieties, such as bambino and compacta. There is also a variegated form with white and green leaves.
Mood-Boosting Desk Plants to Match Your Work-from-Home Personality
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A small pothos is a cheery addition to Providence Design Group partner Meghan Rostovsky s home office.
Thereâs a perfect home office plant out there for you. Christine Lennon – March 2, 2021 | Updated March 20, 2021
Plants in a workspace are proven to boost creativity and productivity (so much so that inside the Amazon headquarters in Seattle youâll find 40,000 of them), plus placing greenery on your desk is an easy workday pick-me-up.Â
Choosing a plant that you can keep alive, however, is a task that requires the more difficult work of analyzing your own behavior. You may love the look of a finicky Boston fern. But are you the type of person who would run a humidifier to keep it alive? Better to be honest about your limitations than be the owner of a dead fern.
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