Most house plants need to be repotted annually: the best time to do this is in spring when your plants are beginning to grow again after a winter period of slow or very little growth. Make the firs...

Bottle gardens are both popular and amusing. All you need for a bottle garden is a very large bottle, jar or car...

South-facing windowsills are perfect for some of the more exotic flowering house plants. Consider the flower colour as part of the room’s scheme; and bear in mind the size and shape of the plants...

As a rule it will be found practical only to place comparatively small plants right in the window spaces. Too large plants get in the way and they also restrict the amount of light entering the room....

The weird shapes of these fleshy plants are an endless source of fascination, especially when exotic flowers bloom on them. The flowers of cacti are particularly exquisite and brilliant. Some grow...

For either formal or informal pools, the water lily, perhaps, should be the first considered, for it is the queen of the water garden. The first essential for successful culti...