In The Greenhouse

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29269, 29 July 1960, Page 9

In The Greenhouse

Timely work is due here, apart from the sowing of a few early seeds. The wise gardener will have accumulated supplies of various soils and manures for use in potting. This can now be used in repotting fuchsias, geraniums, pelargoniums and ferns. Shortening and trimming of all should be done, and cuttings made from the best of them. Large plants of adiantum can be divided by knife or pulling apart gently, and when repotted, remove all the old fronds. Begonia or cyclamen should also be potted up or boxed to start them on their season’s run. Avoid over-watering all plants at this season and give ventilation at midday. Where space is available, several good outside plants can prove highly attractive flowering under glass during the summer, either in large pots or tins. Dielytra spectabili (bleeding heart), Solomon’s seal, astilbe spireas, deutzia gracilis. Indian azaleas, primula malacoidei and varieties of erica all respond well to greenhouse tretment. Fuchsias do extremely well grown in wire baskets hung from the roof. The handy man can make these from old wire, using roomy tins to hold the soil. Grown outside, fuchsias require supporting, but grown from the roof, their pendant branches reveal the full beauty of the plant.