Category: Plants
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Best Practices for Caring for Houseplants
International Plant Appreciation Day is April 13 and is the perfect time to refresh your plant parent skills and make sure you are correctly caring for your houseplants. Are your plants getting enough water? Too much or too little sunlight? Did they get neglected during the winter months? We’re here to help. Guide to caring…
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Easiest Houseplants to Care for
Not everyone has a green thumb, but everyone can be a plant parent. There’s plenty of plants that are low maintenance and resilient – perfect for those who struggle to stay consistent in their plant care routine or have had issues with more demanding plants. If this describes you, try one of these more easy-to-care…
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New Houseplants to start the year right
This one is for the plant parents. A new year means it’s time for new plants, because you haven’t added a new one to your collection since last year. Far too long. To start 2025 off the right way, we’ve expanded our houseplant offerings with new plants from Proven Winners. We are offering 9 new…
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Plants that will bring you luck in the New Year
A new year means a whole 365 days of new experiences and opportunities await. Of course, everyone wants to have a prosperous and successful year. According to certain beliefs, there are plants that can help with that. Growing and keeping these plants in your environment could supposedly make 2025 your luckiest year yet: Peace Lily…
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Keeping Pets Safe Around Holiday Plants
Plants are a beautiful, traditional way to celebrate the holidays. However, some of the plants associated with Christmas are dangerous to our furry friends. If you have a pet and are planning to use live plants to decorate for the holidays, it’s important to know which plants are toxic to pets and how to keep…
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Spooky plants to celebrate Halloween
Plants are the perfect decor all year round. They brighten rooms and provide multiple mental and physical health benefits. Although often overlooked for the fall season, there are many plants that give off “spooky” vibes that will compliment Halloween decorations. Consider including these plants in your Halloween decor this year: Ficus Elastica Ghost Rider This…
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When winter weighs you down, houseplants can lighten your mood
A sense of gloom might hit you in the aftermath of the holiday season, but it’s probably not just because you put the string lights away. There’s a link between shortened daylight hours in winter and seasonal depression. Some 4 to 6 percent of Americans suffer from seasonal affective disorder, according to Washingtonian magazine, while…
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Tips to Make the Most out of Your Annual Plants
We see them just about everywhere around this time of year in hanging baskets, patio pots and arranged beautifully in garden beds. Annual plants, such as petunias, geraniums and begonias to name a few, complete their life cycle within a years’ time. Being both fairly easy to care for and their ability to look stunning…
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A Flood or a Drip: our greenhouse watering systems help improve efficiency and plant quality
To understand how flower growing has changed in the past four decades, consider 1, 7 and 9.Those numbers identify the three remaining greenhouses at Royer’s corporate complex in Lebanon. As the breaks in number sequencing suggest, Royer’s had more greenhouses back when we grew our own flowers – nine total at the corporate complex and…
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Extending the Life of your Spring Bulbs
Even after the Easter Bunny has visited and the last eggs are hunted, Easter bulbs – such as daffodils (narcissus), hyacinths, and tulips will bring beauty and color into your home. In fact, you can make the flowers last a lot longer by following these few tips. The key to making the blooms last longer…