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Facts on watering (and overwatering!) fertilizing and repotting, plus more good tips and advice for houseplant care...along with expert tricks to keeping amaryllis, poinsettias, Christmas cactus, Easter lililes, azaleas, orchids and "Lucky" bamboo and other holiday or gift plants living longer...

Guide to Growing Houseplants - A good overview on their care and feeding, humidity, potting and repotting, pest, insects and disease, with more on selecting the right one. From the University of Nebraska.

Caring for Houseplants - Read up on how to avoid killing them with kindness, together with helpful tips to lighting, temperature, humidity and fertilizing, and a list of the most common houseplants - from African violets to Zebra plants - with a short synopsis on caring for them.

House Plants - Proper Care and Problem Solving - A good checklist of the typical problems - lack of humidity, too much heat or water, insects and diseases - plus photos and illustrations to help you identify them, and courses of treatment. From North Dakota State University.

American Begonia Society - The organization dedicated to one of the country's favorite 'windowsill garden' flowers with feature articles, growers' forum, calendar of events, virtual greenhouse.

Perfect African Violets - A step-by-step guide to keeping the picky plants in the pink with tutorials on watering, feeding, sunlight, potting and repotting, plus a photo gallery, related links.

Horticultural Help - A great resource for the urban gardener from a New York City expert with tips and tricks, indoor gardening myths, problems and diagnosis. Also offers a monthly newsletter, related links and resources.

Bringing Houseplants Indoors - Good tips on acclimating your houseplants to wintering over inside the house, with advice on repotting, watering, and getting rid of those garden pests.

Poisonous House Plants - An A-Z listing including aloe, azaleas, dumb cane and up to and including Poinsettias - no longer considered er, extremely dangerous...

also see -> Bonsai | Hydroponics | Geraniums | Gardners Gift Ideas

Lucky Bamboo Quick Tips | Caring for Easter Lillies | Poinsettia Care

Caring for Cut Roses | Orchid Care Tips

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