Keeping Your Plants in Happy Surroundngs -
Light: All green plants must have a certain amount of light just to stay alive, and even more to grow. Before you purchase a plant, check the plant Li...
Planning a Japanese Garden -
Before beginning a Japanese garden, look carefully at any made in your district or articles on this subject and study pictures of well-designed Japane...
Planting Ground Covers -
Ground covers can be transferred from the nursery to the garden at any time of the year, but it is obviously easier to get them established with a min...
Germination -
Germination: Garden seeds are usually treated by one of the following methods:
1. Those which are reasonably hardy are sown directly into the open gr...
Growing Bulbs Outdoors -
Plant outdoor bulbs with a trowel, but on no account leave them 'hanging' in a soil pocket. Special bulb trowels are obtainable with narrow blades whi...
Watering Cactus -
It is true that in their native state they only receive scant amounts of rain, but they also acquire water through their spines from the frequent heav...
Growing Cacti and Succulents -
Cacti and Succulents thrive on neglect and are almost the only plants that need no watering when you go on holiday. In addition, they are untroubled b...
Pruning Newly Planted Roses -
Make fresh cuts wherever long stubs have been left above nodes or dormant buds. Less pruning is required by climbing and shrub roses. because the orig...
Green Manure -
In a large garden a good plan is to rest one seventh of the area devoted to vegetables and cut flowers every year, and to sow this seventh with a gree...
