Gardening Tips and Tricks

We've put together our favorite gardening tips to help you grow a healthier, more productive organic garden. Enjoy!
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3 Tips to Keep your Indoor Plants Alive | Gardening Tips from Roo Gardening
Indoor plants can bring so much life into each room of your home. They are an extension of your personal style. There is a reason I have tropical plants all over my home; the beach is my happy place and indoor plants make it so easy to incorporate that style into my home. Follow our 3 tips to keep your indoor plants alive whether you are a beginner gardener or not. Make sure to follow our gardening tips at Roo Gardening.
How to Spring Clean Your Garden with Roo Gardening | Gardening Tips
Our gardens also like a Spring cleaning before we make them beautiful again after a long dormant Winter. We are going to talk about 5 gardening tips you can take right now to get your garden ready for Spring. Clean your garden bed, dig up & loosen the soil, design your garden space, get your garden tools, including garden apron.
Caring for Fresh Cut Tulips | Gardening Tips from Roo Gardening
Planting tulip bulbs is simple enough, but how to make the most of the fresh cut tulip stems is the question. We want to know when to cut, where to cut, how to arrange them and how to give them the longest vase life. Learn all our tulip care tips with our tulip care guide from Roo Gardening.
Tips for Gardening with Kids | Gardening Tips from Roo Gardening
Of all the things I plant and grow, my favorite thing to grow in the garden is kids. We planted seeds and watched the seeds grow and pulled a ton of weeds. We learned by trial and error, got dirty, and worked really hard. To this day I still reflect on what we did then and how important it is to have kids outside and helping in the garden.
Planting Caladium Bulbs: Which End is Up and Other Tips
Few plants beat the foliage color of Caladiums! They come in a staggering array of colors, and offer a wonderful pop of color, whether you are planting them for indoors or outdoors. Planting Caladium bulbs can be a little tricky, so keep reading to find out all about how to plant them, how to tell which end is up, when to plant, and a lot more.
15 Shade Plant Choices for Front Porch Flower Pots
Are you looking for plant ideas for your shady front porch? Look no further because these 15 plants in this post are among the best plants that you can grow in the shade. All of these plants will grow well in full shade to even a few hours of morning or very late afternoon sun.
13 Beautiful Types of Snake Plants to Grow
There are many types of snake plants out there, and in this post, I wanted to introduce 13 beautiful varieties of Sansevieria. Technically, they are no longer Sansevieria, but rather, belong in the Dracaena genus now. Whatever they are to you, let’s look at some beautiful varieties of this nearly indestructible houseplant.
How to Grow Impatiens From Cuttings
Impatiens plants are super easy to grow from cuttings. Whether you want to simply grow more plants or even propagate some to save and grow over the winter indoors, I’ll show you exactly how easy it is to root impatiens cuttings so that you have an abundance of plants.
Are New Guinea Impatiens Perennials? + 5 Tips to Grow
Are New Guinea impatiens perennials? In this post, I will answer that question, plus give you tips on how you can care for and propagate your plants. New guineas are wonderful plants to use both in the ground and as container plants (outdoors and indoors), and their colorful blooms are basically endless with good care!
How to Get Hibiscus to Bloom: 7 Crucial Factors + Bonus Tip
Have you been frustrated with your hibiscus and wondering why it’s not blooming for you? In this post, I will lay out everything that you need to know to care for your hibiscus so that you can enjoy a profusion of blooms. I’ve been growing hibiscus for years, and I will share all the practical tips on how to get hibiscus to bloom.
How to Grow Lantana in Pots: Ultimate Care Guide
Lantanas are one of the best annuals for full sun. Not only are they super easy to care for in pots, but they are also deer resistant, heat tolerant and bloom their heads off for you. They also attract a variety of insect pollinators. For all these reasons, I grow lantana plants in my garden every year without fail.
Overwintering Hibiscus – 5 Simple Steps for Success
Do you have a favorite tropical hibiscus plant that you’ve enjoyed all summer and that you want to keep successfully through the winter? They’re just too beautiful to let die! This post is all about overwintering hibiscus. From bringing your plant back inside before the cold weather to reintroducing it outdoors in the spring (and everything in between).
15 Shade Plant Choices for Front Porch Flower Pots
Are you looking for plant ideas for your shady front porch? Look no further because these 15 plants in this post are among the best plants that you can grow in the shade. All of these plants will grow well in full shade to even a few hours of morning or very late afternoon sun.
Overwatering Houseplants: It’s Not What You Think!
What exactly does it mean when you hear that you are overwatering a plant? What happens when you overwater a plant? This post will discuss the VERY misunderstood topic of properly watering a plant. You will also learn about signs of underwatering plants as well as signs of overwatering plants. And I actually hate the term overwatering, so I will give you my take on what it means to most people, but also what it really means.
How to Propagate a Spider Plant: 5 Easy Methods
One of the easiest houseplants to propagate, Spider Plants (Chlorophytum comosum) make it really easy for you to create new plants. Another common name for this plant is airplane plant. Mature plants will produce more babies than you know what to do with. But there are more ways to propagate your spider plant than you might think!