Water Garden Problems and Remedies

Acid Water When fish are prone to disease, sudden death and red fins, this is a sure sign that the water has a high level of acidity (or low pH). Other indications are when oxygenating plants do not multiply well, bio

Flowering House Plants for the Home and Office

Flowering plants put the sparkle into indoor plant displays. This group of indoor plants can provide flowers of every colour and form, from the delicate petals of campanula, to the attention grabbing, primary-coloured

Layering and Air Layering Methods for Plant Propagation

Climbers and trailers, such as Hedera, Jasminum and Philodendron, can be easily propagated in a similar way to propagating plantlets. Before commencing, water the parent plant and leave to stand for half an hour, just

Oxygenating Plants

Peltandra or Arrow Arum A hardy, semi-evergreen perennial originally from North America, this is a plant highly regarded for its form and structure — considered by many to be architecturally significant in the

TAMARIX (TAMARISK) as a Hedgeplant

(D = deciduous leaf losing and E = evergreen) A very graceful, feathery plant, excellent for seaside districts, since it withstands salt winds admirably. Inland, it thrives even in poor and limy soil. Clipping in Febr

Indoor Gardening: Growing Bulbs

MORE and more people are discovering the pleasures and interest of indoor gardening, not only those who live in town flats, often without balconies, but those with gardens too, Keeping a room supplied with cut flowers

Miniature Gardens

A fascinating form of indoor gardening is to construct and cultivate tiny, complete gardens. They can be made in almost any container—a vegetable dish, a bowl, an old-fashioned meat dish of the kind to be picked up at

Bottle Gardens

A garden in a bottle has the same sort of fascination, and requires much the same kind of ingenuity and dexterity to construct as a ship in a bottle. But once the bottle garden is established, it can be left for month

Small-Plant Gardens and Moss Gardens

SMALL PLANT GARDENS House plants that are not in themselves particularly striking gain greatly in effect if they are combined in mixed plant gardens in large bowls or dishes. Many house plants do better in a community

Recommended Herbs for the Herb Garden

Unlike most English plant names, the names given to herbs are remarkably consistent all over the British Isles. The herbs are therefore listed here under their English names as they are in herbalists’ and nursery cata

Herbs: What and Where to Grow

Powders, juices, perfumes, oils and seeds extracted from herbs were used from the earliest times in religious ceremonies, in cooking, and by magicians in making philtres and other mysterious potions. Today herbs are u

Right Approach to Cottage Gardening

Try to look upon the garden as another room, and spend as much or as little money as you would on any other main feature of the house. It is against most people’s instinct to spend money outside. One imagines that out

Converting Two Back Yards

This first design is the very reason I became seriously interested in low-maintenance gardening. I was impressed by the ease with which the garden took care of itself (rather than my taking care of it), and overwhelme

How to Design a Children's Garden

(Multi-coloured, slopes up) This practical garden is ideal for people with young children, although later it can easily be adapted into an interesting and pleasant garden for an all-adult household. The view from the

Town House Garden Designs

(Grey, silver, blue and white) This delightful if slightly extravagant plan is designed for a garden that slopes up away from the house. It is fairly traditional and formal in its concept and offers everything from a

Front Garden Designs

 (Bright pink, purple and strong colours) A front garden often appears to be a statement of what the owners would like the outside world to think of them. And indeed the appearance at the front of the house does make

Paved Garden Designs: Low Maintenance Garden

This paved garden is both interesting and exciting for someone who is fascinated by shape and texture, and who doesn’t want to touch a trowel or think about working in the garden once it is laid out and planted. The g

Cottage Garden Designs

One of the sights that makes England so breathtakingly beautiful in summer is the traditional cottage garden. There is nothing lovelier in June and July. Usually a cottage garden has no formal structure and needs atte

Wildlife Garden Ideas

There is unlimited joy to be gained from a wildlife garden. It is a great pleasure to know that jays and thrushes have a place to nest and breed, and there’s a haven where kestrels and field mice, voles and hedgehogs

Garden Designs

Oh the beauty of the small garden! The garden that doesn’t send you to sleep worrying about what still needs to be done, a garden that is easily maintained and in which a luscious and inspiring show is all the more dr