Making It Grow Minutes

Watering blooming holiday cacti is a bit tricky. Amanda McNulty offers helpful tips to keep your plant happy and healthy year-round.

The "leaves" of Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti are not really leaves.

Amanda McNulty shares helpful tips to ensure your Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti bloom beautifully

Amanda McNulty describes the leaf difference on these two epiphytes, and why caring for them is distinctly different than nurturing their desert-dwelling cousins.

Host Amanda McNulty gets creative with cacti as she prepares her table for holiday celebrations.

While visiting her dying mother, Amanda McNulty brought Chickie Wimberly to comfort, entertain, and provide fun stories for future visitors.

Amanda McNulty's family finds ways to make their holiday meals special by adding memorable main courses.

Host Amanda McNulty has a history of keeping unusual pets, including a chick hatched in her child's classroom.

Host Amanda McNulty of "Making It Grow" shares more childhood stories of her unusual pets, their favorite foods, and the foods she and her family enjoyed.

Host Amanda McNulty of "Making It Grow" shares a vivid childhood memory of one of the many unusual pets she and her brother used to keep.

Street litter attracts mosquitos, but mass spraying harms more than just this one pest.

While "Making It Grow" host Amanda McNulty is usually in favor of planting and growing, she draws the line at her bathroom tile.

Host Amanda McNulty of "Making It Grow" explains how the sweetbay magnolia helps sustain a variety of wildlife.

Host Amanda McNulty of "Making It Grow" explains her preference of the sweetbay magnolia over magnolia grandiflora, a.k.a. the southern magnolia.

Host Amanda McNulty of "Making It Grow" enjoys the scent of tea olives this time of year when she opens her windows for a cool evening breeze.

Although cattle egrets are in the same genus as herons, they have a much different diet than their fish-eating relatives.

Where do cattle egrets build their nests? Host Amanda McNulty points the way on this episode of Making it Grow.

What and where do cattle egrets like to eat? Host Amanda McNulty of "Making It Grow" explains that some of these birds have very exotic dinner guests at their table.

Are you familiar with cattle egrets? Host Amanda McNulty explains how to identify them on this episode of "Making It Grow."

Cattle egrets are fairly new to the U.S. Host Amanda McNulty explains how and when they arrived in our country.