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Get-Well Plants Actually Help You Get Well

What you can do: Visiting someone in the hospital? Skip the get-well balloons and stuffed animals, and bring a potted plant instead.

How to Choose the Best Get-Well Flowers

What you can do: Pick flowers that won't trigger sneezes, or need their water changed frequently.

Philadelphia Flower Show Offers Lessons for Everyone's Backyard

What you can do: Implement a few tricks from professional gardeners into your little patch of green this spring.

How to Grow Houseplants in Water

What you can do: Grab a few jelly jars and a pair of scissors, and find yourself a plant or herb from which to snatch a clipping.

How to Start an Indoor Herb Garden

What you can do: Choose hardy, drought-tolerant herbs and place them on a sunny windowsill to enjoy cooking with your own herbs all year long.

Plant These Things Like Your Life Depends on It

What you can do: Add native plants to your landscape in clusters, and take out the invasive, problematic plants.

The Nickel Pincher: How to Keep Your Plants Watered While on Vacation

What you can do: Move your plants out of direct sunlight while you're away; create an easy terrarium with plastic bags.

How to Get Cancer-Causers Out of Your Indoor Air

What you can do: Choose the plants that have the highest ratings for formaldehyde removal.