Houseplant Care Guides
Practical, real-home plant care — watering, light, propagation, pests, and seasonal advice, reviewed by experienced indoor gardeners.
How Soil Works
Nature’s plan is to build up the humus year after year and this can only be done by organic matter. There is need to replace and return that which has been taken out.
Planning and Planting Herbaceous Borders
Planning the Herbaceous Border Curiously enough no two people seem to agree and it is a good thing therefore that no one knows who is right! It is largely a question of taste.
Growing Bromeliads in Containers
Growing Bromeliads in Containers Many bromeliads, including some of the highly epiphytic ones, will adapt readily to containers.
Flower Gardening Tips
The Joy and Value of Flower Gardening Flower gardening is a fascinating hobby and one which can give a tremendous amount of pleasure for a comparatively little outlay. The annual border is cheap.
Korean Chrysanthemums
Korean Chrysanthemums are great favorites for cutting. Built up from the hardy species Coreanum, which flourishes in Korea and Siberia, it took many years of patient work before they reached the…
Plant Pots–What Ones Are Best?
Plant pots can be practical or pretty, and many are both. Discover the wide range available, so you can choose pots that meet your plants’ needs and match your decor.
Arrangements Using Summer Flowers
Early Summer Flower Arrangements Daisies, cornflowers, and early companions White Shasta daisies are effective, long-lasting, and adaptable.
How to Grow and Care for Berberis
This is one of the big families of shrubs, containing both deciduous and evergreen species, the former grown mainly for their heavy crops of small scarlet or crimson berries, the latter for their…
Creating a Basement Garden
Lack of sunlight need not prevent you from turning a basement into a colourful garden, if you use the available space for shade-loving pot plants or hardy climbers.