Bonsai Planting -
After the initial pruning and shaping, the tree is ready for planting in its container, which has been selected carefully to frame it. The drainage ho...
Flowers and Colour -
The ideal bed for picking contains annuals and perennials, together with plants and shrubs for cutting for their foliage colours. But there is also th...
Indoor Plants for Warm Rooms -
If your room is warm choose some of the plants listed below. But if you have central heating make sure there is enough humidity for them, they all nee...
What Plants to Plant, and Where? -
Use tall-growing specimens sparingly unless they have a slender growth form, or unless you are anxious to blot out some unsightly view. Place tall-gro...
Cactus Propagation -
Propagating by Seed. The potting compost and coarse sand is sifted through a 1 inch mesh. In the bottom of each 3" plastic pot, put 1" of coarse washe...
Asbestos Safety -
The widely used building material known as `fibro', Hbrolite (NZ) or asbestos cement, contained asbestos fibres until the early 1980s, when concerns w...
Plants Suitable for Bonsai -
A few of the plants commonly used for bonsai are pine, spruce, juniper, Japanese maple, Atlantic cedar, flowering quince and azalea. The evergreen var...
Growing Ferns Indoors -
To keep Ferns healthy grow them, if possible, in a mixture consisting of equal parts of sand, peat and compost; a handful of leaf mould would be a hel...
Sowing Seed in Cold Frames -
If cold frames are used and the seeds are sown in pots, pans or boxes and placed inside the frame to germinate, the procedure is much the same as alre...
