Care Guides
Care guides by Rupert Foxton-Smythe
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Ceropegia
These plants are found in tropical and southern Africa. Their fleshy stems may be leafy or without leaves. The twining species are pretty plants with tuberous roots.
Peruvian Lily – Alstroemeria
For home decoration and for market-growers there is no more valuable cut flower than the more commonly called Peruvian Lily, named after the Swedish botanist, Baron Alstroemer.
How to Set Up Houseplant Window Displays
One of the difficulties with window displays often is the problem of deciding for whom the display is intended – the owner or the man in the street looking in.
Althea – Hollyhock
Tall, stately hollyhocks are classic cottage garden flowers. Available in a wide range of colours, these hardy perennials and biennials make a beautiful background plant for a display of summer…
Omphalodes Navelwort, Blue-Eyed Mary
PROPAGATION: Divide clumps in spring. O. missouriensis is an exception – sow seeds under glass in spring.
Modern Shrub Roses
Myriad varieties of enduring colour Whether on their own or among complementary species, modem shrub roses can set the summer-time tone of a whole garden, or give detailed interest near a patio or…
Sempervivum Tectorum
Sempervivums are plants for the collector, rather than the general gardener, but the specialist takes as much pride in his houseleeks as does the rosarian in his roses.
Daffodil Species for the Rockery
Daffodils on the rockery are generally neglected, but for planting around the roots of young trees or as an edging to a path or border, on the rockery, for a window-box, and especially in pans for…
Dianthus Border Carnation, Pinks
Dianthus is found in several parts of the garden. In the rockery you will see the Alpine Pinks and in the flower beds both Sweet William and the Annual Carnations are popular.
Summer Hyacinth – Galtonia Candicans
Summer Hyacinth – Galtonia candicans is an extremely useful plant in that it flowers in profusion in the border throughout August and early September – a difficult period not only for bulbs but for…
Delphinium
Many people have resolved to grow Delphiniums after seeing a group of well-grown giants towering over their heads in a border owned by an experienced gardener.
Delphinium Hybrids
Of all the plants in the garden delphinium has travelled furthest from the various species in the wild.