Category
Houseplant Care

Ornamental Grasses
The Elegance of Ornamental Grasses There are a number of ornamental grasses which can be grown for the purpose of providing good flower-stems or attractive leaves of decorative value.

Increasing Your Stock of Climbing Plants
Getting something for nothing is always an appealing idea, but growing your own plants from seed, or propagating them from cuttings, also gives you immense satisfaction.

Apricots as Wall Fruits
Apricots are the most difficult of all the fruit grown outdoors in more northerly latitudes.

Growing Peaches on Walls
The peach is a hardy fruit, tougher than it looks. It will grow and ripen fruit successfully even in the north of England, given a south-facing wall.

Growing Cherries on Walls
There are two groups of cherries – add and sweet. Both grow best on a wall when they are fan-trained.

Growing Grapes Against Walls
Since the 1960s there has been a great upsurge of interest in the growing of grapes outdoors, with hundreds of acres being planted for wine-making.

Fruits and the Dispersal of Fruit and Seed
The essential whorls of a flower are the androecium and the gynoecium. Without these, a flowering plant would be faced with the alternative of extinction or immortality.

Easy to Grow Climbing Plants for Gardens, Sun Rooms, Conservatories and Patios
Actinidia kolomikta A spectacular and vigorous deciduous climber grown principally tor its foliage. The base of each leaf is green; the rest, white flushed with pink. A sunny wall is ideal.

Fungi Biology
Structure and Characteristics of Fungi Fungi are very simple in structure and are characterized by the complete absence of chlorophyll. It is this lack that determines their mode of life.