Table of Contents Introduction Starting Your Herbarium Butterflies and Insects Added to Your Pages Adding Mosses to Your Herbarium Making Your Own Fernery Plant Choices Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction If you are interested in preserving plants, in the shape of dried flowers, leaves, and even seedpods, you may want to preserve them for posterity in what is known as a herbarium. In olden days, it was called a Hortus Siccus - and since ancient times, gardeners and botanists kept looking for ways and means in which they could preserve flowers, and plants in a dried condition, for a...

Table of Contents Introduction Tips for Beginners Preparing Your Windowsill Boxes and Containers Choosing Your Plant Before You Buy It Best time for getting Roots, Bulbs, and Cuttings Growing Water Weeds Plant Propagation and Germination Seed propagation Plant Propagation through Cuttings Layer Propagation Division Propagation Grafting and Budding Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Decorations made of flowers have been an integral part of mankind's social, cultural, and traditional traditions, down the ages. There is absolutely no civilization anywhere in the world, which did not...

Table of Contents Introduction Making up Your Mind to Start Begin Your Collection Pressing Leaves Steps and Tips Techniques for Pressing Flowers Grasses, Mosses, Lichens, and Ferns To Varnish or Not to Varnish - That Is the Question... Lacquer Traditional Gums Beginning Our Projects Floral Wreath Bookmark Cards Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Just imagine that you have a number of dried flowers and leaves, which you wanted to make into a thing of beauty and a joy forever. This, of course, is a challenge for anybody who thinks she or he has a creative instinct and talent. If I...

Table of Contents Introduction Advantages of Hydroponics Nutrients for Healthy Plants Macronutrients Micronutrients The Difference Between Hydroponic Growth and Soil Growth Different Growing Mediums Hydrocorn And Expanded Clay Coconut Coir Rice Husks Growstones Vermiculite and Perlite Sand, Brick Shards, and Pumice Slivers of Wood Wool Products Mineral wool aka Rock Wool Ordinary Gravel Containers and Irrigation Static Solution Hydroponic Culture Raft Culture Solution Continuous Flow System The NFT system Traditional Bengal System Deep Water Culture Top Fed Water Culture Buying Nutrients?...

Table of Contents Introduction How to Prepare Your Flowers and Leaves Maceration Bleaching Your Leaves And Flowers Making Labarraque's Bleaching Solution Placing of Your Leaves in the Jar Fern Frond Treatment What about Leaves without Stems? Best plants for Skeletonizing Magnolia Silver and Aspen Poplar Norway and silver Maple Weeping Willows and Lindens The sacred pipal - Bodh Tree of Enlightenment Sycamore Ash and Elm Duetzia - also known as Deutzia Scabra Chestnut, Hickory, and Beech Sassafras and Rose Ivy and Holly Another Quicker Method for Macerating Leaves Seedpods and Seeds DIY -...

Table of Contents Introduction Benefits of Green Walls Different Paneling Structures Loose Medium Coir Mat/Felt Mat Medium Polyurethane Sheet Medium Structural Mediums Hanging Containers Shoe Holder Racks How to Make a Trellis Using Moss and Coco fiber Best Plant Choices Self Watering Planters How to Make a Self Watering Planter - Subirrigation Planter Water Circulation in Green Walls Final Tips for Green Wall Planting Hydroponics Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction How many times have you gone into a neighbor's garden and admired one of his walls, completely or even partially...