Care Guides
Care guides by Rupert Foxton-Smythe
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Moisture Meters
If you like to be told when to water your plants by using a mechanical aid, there are a number available from nurseries and garden centers.
Types of Climbing Plants
Here is a list of the main types of climbing plants in terms of their uses and growth rates. Depending on where you live, e.g: You will see from the list that you are really spoilt for choice.
Protecting House Plants From Mealy Bugs
Sooner or later you will come across mealy bugs, which are waxy, woolly-coated houseplant pests. They’re not difficult to deal with, provided you act quickly at the first sign of trouble.
Magnolia Climbing Plant
Most magnolias are trees, but Magnolia stellata is a shrub growing slowly to about 9 ft.
How to Graft Cacti
Grafting is usually done when one plant is highly valued but, for one reason or another, is difficult to grow.
Chrysanthemums for Cut Flowers
Chrysanthemums are too well known to need much description. For growing out-of-doors giant flower-heads are not desirable, as they are liable to break off if in any way exposed to the wind or to be…
Forsythia or Golden Bells
Lynwood Gold is erect, growing sturdily to 8—10 ft. with many branches stretching upward, all of which bear a profusion of blossom in March to April before the leaves appear.
Pittosporum Climbing Shrubs
Pittosporum is a genus of evergreen shrubs from New Zealand and the Far East. Unfortunately only one, P. tenuifolium, is hardy in Britain, and only in warm and sheltered areas.
Euonymus Climbing Varieties
The form of Euonymus gown on walls is the evergreen E. fortunei also known as winter creeper.
Growing Grape Hyacinth – Muscari
With its glorious shades of violet and blue, there is no more colorful flower for spring and early summer flowering than the Grape Hyacinth.
The Basis of a Good Flower Garden
The Importance of Good Soil Foundations No one would dare build a beautiful house today without good foundations and yet, again, attempts are made to produce magnificent flowers without giving the…
Annuals and Biennials
Seed is Nature’s usual means of increasing plant life and it is also the simplest method for the gardener when it comes to raising annual, biennial and, in some instances, perennial flowering plants.