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Bonsai Shaping
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Pruning Houseplants - If a plant is growing too tall and a bushier shape is required, stop the growing shoots by breaking off the tips with finger and thumb (known as "pinching" or "pinching back"). This encourages the growth of side shoots and bushiness will soon result. Hous... more Lawn Plugs - Plugging - Plugs are pieces of sod, one and a half or two inches or so in diameter, of creeping grasses. When planted, they quickly grow together and cover the ground. They differ from sprigs in that each consists of many rather than a few shoots and includes the so... more Japanese Garden Maintenance - Maintenance of a Japanese garden is largely a matter of housekeeping; it involves weeding, clearing away dead leaves, raking sand and gravel areas, and keeping paths and lakes clean. Pruning must be precise and frequent; trees and shrubs must never be per... more Fixing shallow hard loamy clay soil - 1 Add soil to the surface to increase the depth.
2 Double-dig the whole area. To do this, open up a 60 cm wide trench at one end of the area and remove the top soil down to the clay base. Barrow this soil to the other end of the area where digging will... more Cactus Cultivation - A general rule is that a densely-spined or thick-skinned plant is more able to stand the full sun than a thinly-spined or spineless one which would do better in a more protected position. To enable the plants to breathe more readily in collections that gr... more Choosing House Plants - When choosing house plants, consider first their shape, habit, texture and colouring for the place they will occupy and in relation to each other. For a group of plants, choose a tall specimen to give height (dracaena or schefflera), a climbing variety (p... more Standard Roses - Standard roses (sometimes called tree roses in other parts of the world) are those budded on to long canes to give them stems of the desired length. These include miniatures on 15 to 20 in. stems, hybrid teas and floribundas on 24 to 36 in. stems, and wee... more Loamy Soil - When a soil is referred to as loamy, it usually means that the soil contains a mixture of humus, sand and clay. A good loamy soil should contain, in addition to the clay particles, an ample supply of humus with sufficient sand to prevent it setting hard u... more |