For the last few weeks, I have been popping in all my local charity shops to find planters in white/cream for my living room. I thought it would take forever to find planters I liked on such a tight budget but I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly it all came together.


With so many cuttings and baby succulents all over the place, I needed a way to save some space and display them so they are pleasing to the eye.


This was also a way for me to protect a few prized plants from the snow and intense cold weather we had in Feb/March, having a few of each plant in different locations around the home/garden for me gives peace of mind.

Commonly called zebra plant, Haworthia attenuata is a cold-sensitive succulent species grown for its eye-catching, green and white textured leaves.

How to Grow and Care

It will produce an abundance of offshoots, or pups, once established.
 The offshoots provide a simple and highly effective means of propagating new zebra plants if they are carefully removed and potted in a suitable growing mix. However, they should only be removed in spring or autumn when the plant is not actively growing, to reduce stress to both the offshoots and the parent plant.

• Locate the rooted offsets around the base of the zebra plant. Carefully scrape away the soil from around the base of the offshoots and look for small, pale pink or white roots.

• Insert the blade of a gardening knife into the soil midway between the parent plant and the rooted offshoot. Slide the blade through the soil to sever the connecting root.

• Etch out a 2-inch radius in the soil around the base of the rooted offshoot using the tip of your gardening knife. Dig down along the radial line to a 5-inch depth using a small handheld spade.

• Insert the blade of the handheld spade at an angle underneath the rooted offshoot. Carefully pry it loose from the soil and remove it. Fill in the hole left by the offshoot to protect the parent plant's roots.

• Crumble off half the soil from around the offshoot's rootball. Pot it in a small, 3- to 4-inch nursery container. Use a potting mix made up of 2 parts perlite, 2 parts coarse sand and 1 part sterile compost

• Place the potted zebra plant offshoot where it will receive bright, diffuse light

• Withhold watering for the first three days. Water only until the soil feels barely moist in the top inch. Maintain light, even moisture in the soil mixture, but allow it to dry out for a day or so once a week.

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Valentine's Day is fast approaching and it doesn't take much time and imagination to come up with a 
bunch of flowers, but a real romantic gesture - and one that will last longer than a few days is far more of a challenge. 

When you think of all the waste associated with Valentine's Day - the throwaway cards, the yards of cellophane, not to mention the air miles clocked up by flowers flown in from around the globe - how much better to give a living plant as a present. 

Potted plants are so much more suggestive of permanent affection than a bunch of flowers, and on a purely pragmatic level, they give much better value for money. 

You could choose a houseplant - Jasmine, Stephanotis and Gardenias are fragrant and glamorous, or a passionflower vine, perhaps wound round a support in the shape of a heart, would speak for itself. 
Or how about something which can be planted out in the garden in a few weeks' time? 

If it has to be red roses - and they are, after all, the classic "I love you" flower - you can't get better than an entire bush of them that promises years of pleasure and passion for years ahead.

As for Valentine's cards that's another challenge in itself, if you are looking for something unique with a witty twist then look no more as we have found these for you.



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