Care Guides
Care guides by Rupert Foxton-Smythe
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Everlasting Flower Arrangements: Techniques and Tips
Objects troves, things you find lying about, are a great aid to flower arrangements and can make decorative groups on their own or in combination with dried flowers, seed heads, and so on.
Growing Hardy Herbaceous Perennials
Plants which continue to live for a number of years irrespective of whether they flower or not, have a comparatively soft, as distinct from woody, growth, and are hardy enough to be grown outdoors…
Miniature Indoor Gardens
Any shallow container, from a soup plate upwards, could be used for this. Even baskets or wood boxes will do if lined with plastic or a double thickness of cooking foil.
Feeding Indoor Plants Optimally
After watering the next most important requirement is feeding. Although all potting composts, other than seed composts, contain fertilizers in varying strengths, sooner or later these are exhausted.
Feeding Your Indoor Plants the Right Amount
During the course of centuries, your indoor plant evolved and adapted in a natural environment.
Half Plant, Half Animal: The Curious Family of Fungi
In the last hundred years a great new science has grown up— the science of Mycology. A mycologist then is one who studies molds and other fungi.
Animals and Plants: Their Similarities and Differences
Similarities Between Animals and Plants All organisms are built up of the same units, each unit, the cell, consisting of a nucleus embedded in cytoplasm, which is enclosed by a membrane.
How to Make Your Own Plant Containers
You don’t have to purchase a new, expensive container every time one of your plant outgrows its pot.
Formal Town Style Gardens
Town gardens are often small but make up for their size with the potential for impressive formality, and even the tiniest town garden can convey a grand elegance.
Grouping Bulbs
Dots of bulbs planted in late summer and autumn will provide winter and spring color. Mass bulbs of one variety to flower at the same time, or display a range.
Bulbs and Corms for the Beginner to Gardening
Bulbs and corms – what a glorious picture they bring to my mind! I can see the drifting mass of bluebells in a wood at Cranbrook; I bring to memory the wealth of yellow and gold of the daffodils in…
Flower Arranging With Rock Plants
If one has only the smallest garden, or even no garden at all, it is often possible to grow what are commonly called rock plants either in a small raised bed or an old converted sink trough…