ST Plant Parenting

Plant Parenting

Start your stem-cuttings strong for the new year

(From left) Mint, cassava and Philodendron can be propagated from different types of stem cuttings.

Plant Parenting

Use self-watering containers to hydrate plants when you are away

wwplant05 - Self-watering containers can be bought readily and they can be either flower pots or planter troughs.

SOURCE AND CREDIT: WILSON WONG

Plant Parenting: Colour-changing flowers in your garden to delight the senses

Flowering plants such as these varieties inject colour and beauty into any garden.

Plant Parenting: Protecting edible plants during monsoon season

Netted enclosures can prevent pest and rain damage to plants.

Plant Parenting: Growing aroids and other epiphytes

Philodendron billietiae, an eye-catching aroid with attractive orange leaf stalks, climbing up a palm at the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

Plant Parenting: How to grow orchids

Depending on their growth habits, which can be upright or pendulous, these plants can be cultivated differently.

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