If you want roses for indoor floral arrangements during the gray days of winter, go around the beds on a summer morning when the dew has dried and select those rosebuds which are just showing color. Cut them with a sharp knife, taking as long a stem as possible. Preserving Method Melt some wax. I … Read more
This month, a House and Greenhouse guest, Ruby Winston, tells her methods for growing cinerarias on a small scale—the way other home gardeners want to grow them. Ideal Temperature Requirements Ideally, these magnificent late-winter and spring-blooming plants need a nighttime temperature range of 45° to 50° degrees Fahrenheit. If other conditions are excellent, moisture in … Read more
Flowers have a special talent for lifting the spirits even on the gloomiest day—and if they are picked from your garden and used to decorate your home, they will give added enjoyment. You will certainly want to use them to your best advantage. Of course, you can enjoy roses or lilies for their beauty even … Read more
Bouquets for your house can have new life if you give the flowers a good conditioning treatment before they are arranged. A chemical preservative in the water frequently produces cut flowers that last longer than if left to grow in the garden. Techniques for drying fresh cutting material from the garden have been so improved … Read more
The Gloxinia Flower! It is a triumph to plant thick, dry, brown, and barren-looking gloxinia tubers and watch them produce a luxuriant plant with layers of large, oval, velvety leaves topped with a crowning glory of immense flaring, tubular flowers in rich patterns and glowing colors. That’s what happens when you grow gloxinias, tuberous-rooted relatives … Read more
Gardenia plants are both the delight and despair of indoor gardeners. When Gardenias are happy – in bright light and acidic soil – they are shapely evergreen shrubs with: But when your Gardenia may fail to flower, and may even suddenly decide to turn their leaves sickly yellow for any of several slim excuses. This … Read more