Care Guides
Care guides by Rupert Foxton-Smythe
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Growing Grapes Against Walls
Since the 1960s there has been a great upsurge of interest in the growing of grapes outdoors, with hundreds of acres being planted for wine-making.
Jugs for Containers to Arrange Flowers
Jugs as Flower Containers Through History For some hundreds of years jugs of all types, shapes and sizes, have been used to hold flowers.
Arrangements With Everlasting Flowers
One of the most important things to remember about everlasting flowers is that, above all, they should be used sparingly and with discretion.
Yellow Arrangements of Flowers
The Charm of Yellow Flowers There is nothing quite like a group of yellow flowers to give the illusion of sunlight in a room.
Arranging Evergreens
Winter is the obvious time of the year when evergreens are essential for arrangement, though certain evergreens are invaluable throughout the year on account of their color and shape.
Fruits and the Dispersal of Fruit and Seed
The essential whorls of a flower are the androecium and the gynoecium. Without these, a flowering plant would be faced with the alternative of extinction or immortality.
Easy to Grow Climbing Plants for Gardens, Sun Rooms, Conservatories and Patios
Actinidia kolomikta A spectacular and vigorous deciduous climber grown principally tor its foliage. The base of each leaf is green; the rest, white flushed with pink. A sunny wall is ideal.
Green Arrangements
The Use of Green in Arrangements The idea of using green by itself for an arrangement is almost contemporary.
Root, Leaf and Cell: The Anchor, Foodmaker, and Essence of Life
The Root System Up to this point we have considered only those parts of the plant that are exposed to light and air.
Botany: The Wallflower
Parts of a Plant A typical flowering plant such as the wall flower is composed of two parts, the root system and the shoot system.
Fungi Biology
Structure and Characteristics of Fungi Fungi are very simple in structure and are characterized by the complete absence of chlorophyll. It is this lack that determines their mode of life.
Pots and Composts for Greenhouse Plants
For convenience most greenhouse plants are grown in pots, though some large plants are grown directly in beds of soil on the floor of the house and this method is also commonly used for tomatoes.