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Calathea Vittata | How to Grow and Care Guide

Calathea Gardening Guides How To Grow Plants
/ By Mabel Vasquez

Calathea vittata is a highly sought after house plant, with distinct bands across its asymmetrical leaves adding a fresh zesty pop to any color room. Like any calathea, there are challenges to growing vittata that go beyond the basic “low maintenance plants they are sold as”, but overall they are easy to care for, provided […]

5 Best Garden Tractors Reviewed | 2025 Buying Guide

In our ultimate buyer’s guide, we reviewed the best garden tractors for the 2025 market and choose the top contender, as well as looking at the benefits of these versatile machines, features to look for when making your purchase, lawn tractor uses and safety, and much more!If you want to make yard work easy and […]

10 Best Leaf Vacuums for 2025 Buying Guide

Are you looking for the best leaf vacuum in the market today? Yard work can seem like a daunting, never-ending task, and is especially frustrating when you don’t have the right tools and equipment.For yards with trees that shed their leaves every fall or through the summer, a leaf vacuum is a useful solution that […]

Calathea Crocata – Eternal Flame Plant Growing Guide

Calathea Gardening Guides How To Grow Plants
/ By Mabel Vasquez

Calathea crocata are the crinkly leaved, flowering calathea you see in garden centers, sold for their exquisite red foliage, with the added bonus of bright orange flowers.Calathea crocata take their common name from these flowers – Calathea eternal flame, thanks to their ability to flower repeatedly all year round in their natural habitat, but also […]

Calathea Roseopicta (Goeppertia Roseopicta) Growing Guide

Calathea Gardening Guides How To Grow Plants
/ By Mabel Vasquez

Calathea roseopicta is an iconic species of houseplant grown all over the world for its vibrant two-tone leaves that bring warmth and excitement to any room. For many gardeners, Calathea roseopicta will be their first foray into house plant parenthood thanks to its supposed easy-going nature, but in this article, I want to dispel the myths […]

Calathea Lutea (Cigar Plant) Growing and Care Guide

Calathea Gardening Guides How To Grow Plants
/ By Mabel Vasquez

Calathea lutea has always been a greenhouse plant for me but this year, after five years of caring for it, we had to make way for new plants and waved goodbye to our beautiful giant calathea to a home big enough to accommodate it. If you are ever lucky enough to grow Calathea lutea, you should […]