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Ensure your orchids last for years with Sarah Raven's video advice on caring for cymbidium and phalaenopsis varieties as houseplants.all year roundCaring for house plantsGrowing hippeastrum.How to grow orchids.Installing an automatic watering system

to treat it. I GROW AND DISTRIBUTE LOADS OF ALOE VERA FOR FRIENDS WHO,LIKE ME USE THE SAP FROM THE LEAVES TO TREAT ANY WOUNDS,BITES OR BURNS. WEARE ALL AWARE OF IT'S ANTIBACTERIAL & SOOTHING PROPERTIES SO THERE JUST MAY BE SOME GOOD REASONS AS TO WHY

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recommend some houseplants I can try? I have a conservatory which has full sun all day in the summer and is heated in the winter. I currently grow the usual such as aloes, mother in laws tongue, Christmas cactus, various succulents, pitcher plants

.If frost is forecast in May, bring the pot under cover to protect it.More tropical plant displaysCreating a tropical display of canna and eucomis.Growing tropical aloe variegata in a pot.Planting eucomis bulbs.

is grownig from a bulb/corn, but I did not plant it. Does anyone know what this is please? Looks like the flower spike from a partrige - breasted aloe. I 've got two growing in the conservatory . They flowered in April but they were orangey - red . Did you

bare length of stem below it, and gradually the rosettes of leaves sit at the end of ever lengthening stems. This does add to the character of the plant, but if they grow too long then these can be cut off and used as cuttings. Just cut off a rosette