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  • Two Ways to Make Money from Your Greenhouse
    Perhaps you are not particularly interested in making money from selling potted plants, bulbs, or seeds. Still, you want a self-supporting or profit-making greenhouse. Although a number of hybridizers use their greenhouses to hasten the growth of many plants, including iris and roses, there are many things you can do with your greenhouse.
  • Plant a Terrarium at Home
    Terrarium planting is a specialized part of home gardening, but an interesting one. A great many woodland plants which prosper in their natural environments fail to grow at all in the house due to the lack of moisture in the air. Terrariums provide this humid atmosphere and allow you to bring the forest plants home.
  • Propogate Your Evergreens Successfully
    In former days many home gardeners found it difficult to increase the supply of their favorite evergreens by the usual methods of reproduction, viz., seeds, layers, and cuttings. The complexity of starting new plants has been materially lessened since the introduction of polyethylene plastic. No longer is a greenhouse a necessary possession for raising these plants from seeds and cuttings
  • How To Grow Beautiful Bulbs Inside
    There are very few more rewarding tasks in the cultivation of a home garden than forcing bulbs into riotous bloom in the middle of winter. With a little practice and a little foresight you can assure yourself of some wonderful spots of color throughout your house that will continue all winter long.
  • How To Pot Orchids
    Bear one thing in mind when potting orchids: Don't use glazed or painted earthenware pots! Though decorative, they are damaging to plant growth. They keep the compost overwatered and underaired - both fatal to orchids. Otherwise, potting orchids - except for the trick of packing osmunda - is no different from potting azaleas or begonias.
  • Making Your Own Greenhouse
    If you are planning to sell plants grown in your greenhouse, annuals and many of the biennials and perennials can be grown in and sold directly from 2-, 3-, or 4-inch pots, or started in flats and grown on in pots. Grown and sold in pots (and especially in the organic pots) plants suffer little or no setback when transplanted to the garden, terrace, or window box.
  • How To Make A Bog Or Marsh Garden
    An unusual and beautiful garden can be planted where there is a bog or marsh. A pond is not an essential feature of the bog garden, although its presence is to be desired, for the overflow can be used to feed the marsh. It is essential, however, that the soil of the marsh garden shall be kept in a moist, swampy state through the whole year.
  • Sowing The Best Grasses For Shady Sites
    All is not lost if you have trees in your lawn. Grow any of these grasses in the shaded areas and you will have success. This article will help you with your tree issues and let you have a beautiful lawn.
  • Unlock The Secrets Of Water Gardens
    These are just a few of the initial steps which need to be taken to create a beautiful water garden. The rest you will no doubt learn from your own experience. Happy gardening!
  • The Beautiful Scent Of Roses
    The rose is indeed beautiful to look at and just as beautiful to smell. Grow roses and you will have these wonderful qualities in your garden all year round.
  • Keeping Your Lawn Healthy And Beautiful
    Lawns are not so puzzling if viewed as populations of grass plants which have the usual plant requirements for growth and survival. This article will help you to figure out the things that you need in order to keep your lawn looking beautiful.
  • Keep Your Evergreens Looking Beautiful
    When you are planning to grow evergreens, a few pointers will guide you on your way to maximum success. This article will point out the important factors in successful evergreen growing.
  • Growing The Right Plants For Profit
    Owners of small "commercial" greenhouses are alert for ways to save labor and stretch their producing areas. Read the tips provided in this article and you will be on your way to making a profit off your greenhouse investment.
  • How to Care For Your Garden
    Before any garden problem can be corrected, or plant damage prevented or controlled, it is necessary to know the cause. Sometimes this is very evident, but more often it is not.
  • How to Price and Market Your Greenhouse Plants
    The price you charge for your plants will depend on whether you sell finished or unfinished stock, and whether your greenhouse enterprise is a full-time business or just a profitable sideline or self-supporting hobby.
  • How to Grow Orchids in the Home
    To those of us who live in crowded cities where a window box or terrarium is the only means we have of indulging a desire for green and growing plants, orchids offer special attractions. Indoor gardeners say that a house full of plants is soothing.
  • The Three Arts in Training Evergreens Explained
    The usual concept of pruning is to trim evergreens to maintain their natural lines, to remove dead wood, and to clip for the purpose of increasing the density of the plants. However, the heritage of a different type of training has come to us through the centuries.
  • How to Keep Indoor Plants Healthy
    It's always easier (and better) to prevent the disease than to cure the patient. That's just as true for house plants as it is for people.
  • Tips on Cut Flowers
    If you want to have lovely flower arrangements in your home, you need to care for the flowers you use. Follow these guidelines to have beautiful flowers every time.
  • How to Plan A Flower Garden
    The desire for color in the garden is best satisfied by the liberal use of annuals, perennials and bulbs in variety. All three classes of plants have their place, because each has its value as to season of bloom, height or mass of color.
  • The Equipment You Need To Grow Indoor Plants
    The beginner who walks into his garden supply store is going to be overwhelmed at the number and variety of home garden equipment he is going to find on sale.
  • How to Make A Profit From Your Greenhouse
    In the greenhouse, the gardener is truly master of all he surveys, for he can choose his plants, his soils, and his climate! Not only that - but he can also spend his leisure living in this Garden of Eden, and, if he wishes, turn such leisure time into a profit-making sideline.
  • The Fragrant History of Roses
    By any other name...a rose is still a favorite flower of gardeners and romantics the world over. Discover the rich history of this fragrant bloom.
  • Understanding The Beauty Of A Rose
    The rose is, by general consent, the queen of flowers. It can be truthfully said that the rose is the only plant with which a complete garden can be made. Learn all about the true beauty of the rose in this helpful article.
  • A Rocky Start, A Beautiful Finish
    There are few features in the garden that provide such a variety of interests in so little space as a well-planned and carefully planted rock garden. Use these helpful tips to create your very own beautiful rock garden.
  • Life Secrets Of The Orchid
    The grower of orchids is favored above other men. To become one of the few, use this article to help reveal the secrets behind growing beautiful orchids.
  • Secrets Of Growing Orchids
    The orchid can be a difficult flower to grow. Many things need to be in place in order for an orchid to flourish. Using the tips in this article will allow you to successfully grow this beautiful plant.
  • How To Design A Garden
    Roses are valued in the world of gardening. The ones who try to succeed in creating a beautiful garden achieve some of the greatest floral arrangements and always a part of the highest quality gardens is the ever beautiful rose.
  • Secrets of the Orchid Family
    The prospective orchidist will want to have a general knowledge of the orchid family and a survey of the individual members with whom he may want later to become more closely acquainted. The range of choice is wide, since there are from fifteen to twenty thousand species.
  • Gardens in Containers in the Modern Day
    American visitors to the Old World are invariably impressed by the exuberant displays of container plants around homes, in gardens and parks, and in front of public buildings and places of business.
  • Pointers to Selecting the Right Soil
    Without soils, no life could exist on earth. The lowly bacterial cell and the massive pachyderm both owe their being to this basic stuff of life.
  • Information To Help Keep Soil At The Best PH Level
    Years ago, Dr. Edgar T. Wherry devised a classification of soils by degrees of acidity; it is still useful but should be qualified by the fact that many plants spill over into two or more classifications while some are relatively sensitive to pH.
  • A Brief History Of Gardens In Containers
    Gardening in pots and other containers is apparently as old as civilization, for the practice can be traced to the very early use of medicinal and edible plants. In time, pot gardening developed to a high degree, and there are numerous records which reveal its importance in China, India, Egypt, Assyria, Greece, and Rome.
  • The Mystery Behind Growing Perfect Orchids
    The beginnings of the orchid family are shrouded in mystery. Since most orchids are epiphytic that is, having aerial roots through which they receive sustenance from the minerals in the moisture laden air of the tropics they have left no traces such as the fossilized remains of ground growing plants.
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