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Houseplant Care
Roof Gardens
Large flower pots, boxes or butts can be used to grow a very wide variety of plants on flat roofs, including a number of shrubs.
Growing Ornamental Grasses for Cutting
Once you have grown a few ornamental grasses you are likely to want always to have a few plants in the garden. They really can be quite beautiful when seen at close quarters.
Growing Pilea
There are about 400 species, but only a few are grown as houseplants. However. these are of considerable merit, and very attractive as foliage plants.
Looking After Plants When You Go Away
It is easy enough, then, to care for our plants when we are able to give them regular attention, but what is to happen to them when we leave home for a holiday or for some other reason?
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…
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.