Houseplant Care Guides
Practical, real-home plant care — watering, light, propagation, pests, and seasonal advice, reviewed by experienced indoor gardeners.
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.
How to Make Your Own Plant Containers
You don’t have to purchase a new, expensive container every time one of your plant outgrows its pot.
Formal Town Style Gardens
Town gardens are often small but make up for their size with the potential for impressive formality, and even the tiniest town garden can convey a grand elegance.
Grouping Bulbs
Dots of bulbs planted in late summer and autumn will provide winter and spring color. Mass bulbs of one variety to flower at the same time, or display a range.
Bulbs and Corms for the Beginner to Gardening
Bulbs and corms – what a glorious picture they bring to my mind! I can see the drifting mass of bluebells in a wood at Cranbrook; I bring to memory the wealth of yellow and gold of the daffodils in…
Flower Arranging With Rock Plants
If one has only the smallest garden, or even no garden at all, it is often possible to grow what are commonly called rock plants either in a small raised bed or an old converted sink trough…
Buying Healthy Plants
Houseplants have become so very much a part of our everyday life that they are now available from all sorts of retail outlets, florists’ shops, garden centers, specialist plant shops, supermarkets…
Choosing a Style of Rock Garden
Before outlining the actual procedure of rock garden construction, here is a word of advice to those who hand over this feature to experts.
Roses for Enthusiasts – Roses With a Difference
Whether old favorites or brand new hybrids, many roses have characteristics which are quite unexpected and make for a lot of interest in the garden.