Care Guides
Care guides by Rupert Foxton-Smythe
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Ferns, Mosses and Lichens for Dried Displays
The happy return to popularity of hardy ferns, which can be grown in an otherwise difficult and almost uninhabitable shady garden corner, where they can make such wonderful foils to hostas and other…
Flower Arranging With Eremurus (Fox-Tail Lily)
Decorative Value of Eremurus The eremurus or fox-tail lily (sometimes called the giant asphodel), is one of the most useful plants for tall arrangements, equally suitable for weddings, pedestal vases…
Arrangements With Grey and Silver Foliaged Plants
Value of Grey and Silver Foliage in Arrangements It would be difficult to over estimate the value of these plants for indoor decoration, either used on their own, or in contrast to other foliage or…
Biological Regeneration and Growth: Continuous and Discontinuous
All organisms build up their living material, protoplasm, from similar materials and by a series of similar chemical processes, yet such is the complexity and infinite variety of this mysterious…
Growing Succulent Plants in Bowls
The average fancier of succulent plants will keep his plants in separate pots, which allows full individual control of watering. He will, indeed, turn up his nose at plants kept in bowls.
Where to Grow House Plants in Your Home
Individual plants Clay pots are admirable for growing plants in, but they cannot be said to be beautiful.
Growing Freesias Outdoors
Freesias for outdoors must open up a new popularity for this plant for not all possess a greenhouse or frame, but a hardy strain has been evolved from many of the best of the older-named varieties,…
The Other Succulent Plants
Succulent plants, other than cacti, form a very large group. They are contained in about 30 plant families, 8 of which consist entirely of succulents, whilst in the others only a few succulents are…
Soil Cultivation FAQs
Digging the soil helps to aerate it—although in a fertile soil earthworms do that task anyway. Digging is also necessary if you wish to incorporate bulky organic material and bury weeds.
Cloches And Handlights
Types: There are bell glasses, which are made entirely of glass and are shaped like a bell; hand lights of varying pattern, but usually rectangular with span or pyramidal top glazed with glass or…
Plant Nutrition
It is important to understand that all vegetables require a supply of nutrients. Of these the most important are nitrogen, phosphate and potash.
Garden Projects FAQs
My tools are always jumbled in the shed and I would like to construct a very simple rack to hold them. A straightforward rack can be made from offcuts of timber probably already in your possession.