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KALANCHOE PLANTS is a gardening blog by Team KALANCHOE PLANTS. You’ll read about all things gardening and creating and how to make the world a more beautiful place.


I’m Peter. A gardener, designer, blogger, Youtube creator, and author. I’ve been gardening for a very long time and want to share what I’ve learned with you.


Peter sitting in front of several cactus plants in the Arizona desert. I’m here to inspire you with beautiful photos to visually stimulate, as well as share tips and ideas to enlighten and help you get your horticultural and creative groove on.


If you love gardening, gardens, plants and flowers, then you’ve landed in the right place. I do videos and posts about all things garden, how to’s and tips. Whether you are a newbie gardener or a seasoned green thumber, I’m sure you’ll find a lot to delight, educate and inspire you here.


KALANCHOE PLANTS is all about gardening, gardens and creating. In addition to writing our weekly blogs, books and doing videos for Joy Us garden TV, I designed a line of women’s gardening accessories. We also offer air plants directly from a local greenhouse as well as gardening and crafting tools and gifts.


I published my first book, KALANCHOE PLANTS CARE, in 2013.  That was followed by Keep Your Houseplants Alive and Ornaments To Make Your life Sparkle in 2014 and on.


Cheers to growing and creating together … it’s a new thing!

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How to Care for a Kalanchoe Plant

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Guide to Kalanchoe Plants: How to Grow & Care for Them

This succulent houseplant also goes under the monikers of flaming Katy or the florist kalanchoe. They are easy to find, and one of the more popular indoor house plants, thanks to the low maintenance requirements. The kalanchoe comes in a variety of different colors. You can pick up a kalanchoe with orange, red, magenta, pink, or yellow flowers. Around the holidays, the kalanchoes you get at the nursery will be white. With large, green, glossy leaves, the kalanchoe is an attractive and easy-going plant that’s ideal for your indoor garden. Top Tips for Caring for Kalanchoes Your kalanchoe will keep growing as long as you maintain enough nutrients and water to let it thrive. It’s not uncommon for these plants to last six or seven years, but they can get leggy in pots as they get older. Size The pot will give you an idea of the final height of the plant when it flowers. A kalanchoe potted in a 6-inch pot will reach around 12-inches in height. Kalanchoes are available in 2-inch and 4-inch p...
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Kalanchoe Useful Properties and Recipes For The Use of Kalanchoe

  Botanical characteristics of Kalanchoe Kalanchoe is a succulent perennial plant that is green at any time of the year.  The plant belongs to the jumbo family, has shoots with beautiful dense foliage.  On the erect stems of the Kalanchoe are large leaves located opposite each other.  In this plant, the serrated leaves have different colors depending on the location on the stem, for example, they are bright green at the top, and the lower leaves are gray-green with a purple tint. The flowers of the plant are pale green in color with a pinkish tinge, collected in panicle inflorescences.  The flowers of this plant have unusual petals, as they are triangular in shape and brick-red in color.  The Kalanchoe fruit is a multi-seeded leaflet.  Kalanchoe blooms irregularly, but there are also years when the plant is strewn with beautiful flowers. In the wild, Kalanchoe grows only in Africa and on the islands located next to it.  Also, this medicinal plant ...
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