Nina Melillo
How To Care For Indoor Plants – A Little Goes a Long Way
Indoor plants bring such joy. There is something about nature inside your home that makes you feel serene and healthy at the same time....
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Nina Melillo
- 6 min
What Flower Bulbs to Plant in the Fall – Spring Beauty
The temperatures are cooling, the days are getting shorter and your flower garden is looking a little tired. Now is not the time to give...
Nina Melillo
- 6 min
How to Take Care of a Poinsettia – Holidays and Beyond
Seeing poinsettias in your local garden and grocery stores is a sure sign that the holidays are right around the corner. Poinsettias...
Nina Melillo
- 5 min
How to Care for an Amaryllis
Nothing is more distinctive than the statuesque beauty of an amaryllis bloom. Its tall, slender, hollow stem leads to a gorgeous...
Nina Melillo
- 4 min
How to Make a Christmas Cactus Bloom – Easy Peasy
It’s that time of year when you see beautiful Christmas cacti in bloom at big box stores, grocery stores, and nurseries. You have this...
Nina Melillo
- 6 min
How to Take Care of a Christmas Cactus – It’s Not Difficult
A Christmas cactus, (Schlumbergera), is a small cactus that is native to Brazil. It is considered an epiphyte. An epiphyte is a plant...
Nina Melillo
- 6 min
How Late Can You Plant Spring Bulbs in the Fall?
There’s nothing more exciting, at least for a gardener, than to see the first push of life pop up from a cold, desolate landscape. It...
Nina Melillo
- 6 min
Fall Flower Gardens – After the Summer Cleanup
Alas! The hot, muggy, dog days of summer are slowly coming to an end. And what better way to celebrate the end of summer than by...
Nina Melillo
- 5 min
Native Plants and the Environment – Good or Bad?
Whether or not you believe our climate has been impacted by human behavior, one cannot dispute the fact that in the last decade the...
Nina Melillo
- 5 min
Preparing Plants To Come Indoors For Winter – Easy Peasy
It’s the time of year to start preparing your plants to come indoors for winter. When the low temperatures consistently reach 50 degrees...
Nina Melillo
- 6 min
18 Ways – How to Save the Birds – An Easy Guide
Bird. I think that was my oldest daughter’s first word. I know that sounds weird, but whatever! Birds bring joy to our lives. They...
Nina Melillo
- 6 min
All About Indoor Plants – Info for Beginners and Pet Lovers
Due to Covid many of us began working from home. We tried to cope as best we could through the isolation and inactivity. A couple of ways...
Nina Melillo
- 6 min
What is a Landscape Berm? How to Make a Berm
You’ve seen them everywhere. Mounds of dirt jutting up from the ground level covered with multiple shrubs, trees and flowers. Why would...
Nina Melillo
- 6 min
Climate Resilience, Shifting Hardiness Zones, and Rewilding
I remember long, long ago, when I attended elementary school, the bulletin boards in our classrooms would always depict the changing...
Nina Melillo
- 7 min
Everything About Tulips – Lets Talk Tulips!
It’s so exciting to see the first flowers peeking out of the cold winter soil. You know that winter is almost behind you when the first...
Nina Melillo
- 6 min
Easiest Way to Compost – Help Save the Planet
Everywhere you turn there are doom and gloom news flashes about the impending breakdown of our environment. As I see it, you have two...
How To Care For Indoor Plants – A Little Goes a Long Way
Indoor plants bring such joy. There is something about nature inside your home that makes you feel serene and healthy at the same time....
What Flower Bulbs to Plant in the Fall – Spring Beauty
The temperatures are cooling, the days are getting shorter and your flower garden is looking a little tired. Now is not the time to give...
How to Take Care of a Poinsettia – Holidays and Beyond
Seeing poinsettias in your local garden and grocery stores is a sure sign that the holidays are right around the corner. Poinsettias...
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