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 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 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 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 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 Beautiful Bouquets Bouquet Making Coat Flowers and Buttonhole Bouquets Wire Based Designs Vases in the Drawing Rooms. Dinner Table Decorations Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction Since time immemorial, flowers as well as parts of the plant have been used, throughout the world as adornments in the house as garlands, flowers in vases, decoration pieces, and any other idea which you could think. Once upon a time, some flowers in your house were considered to be a part and parcel of your daily life, and necessities, instead of being social niceties and...

Table of Contents Introduction White Sand Drying Sand Preparation Layering of the Flowers Drying of Ferns How to make a Fern Window Decoration Traditional German Flower Smoking Method Fern Outline Airbrushing Splatter Spray Card Skeletonized leaves for Winter Decoration Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction All of these beautiful flowers can be dried, so that one can appreciate the beauty, even after they have been plucked from their stalks. So can their seedpods and foliage. Drying plants, ferns, herbs, and flowers for use in the future or just for decoration in the house, when they...

Table of Contents Introduction The Right Soil for Your Plants A Bit of Sand Wanted Right Now Should I or Should I Not Buy Garden Potted Soil? No Heating/Sterilizing Pots, Pans, and Saucers... Proper Drainage Re-potting and Potting your Plants Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction This book is for all the people who have always wished to have a garden of their own. But perhaps, due to lack of space outdoors, or maybe a lack of chance to get an opportunity to start gardening, they have not managed to start up on this soul satisfying activity, until now. Somewhere in the 1850s up to the...

Table of Contents INTRODUCTION APHIDS AND RED SPIDERS ONION/GARLIC REMEDY RECOGNIZING RED SPIDER SYMPTOMS SCALE INSECTS MEALY BUGS WHAT ABOUT INSECTICIDE SOAPS? CONCLUSION AUTHOR BIO PUBLISHER Introduction Just like any living thing existing on this earth, plant life forms are also subject to diseases. I believe plants are prone and susceptible to more insect attacks, than bacterial, viral, and fungal diseases, and that is why even if you are really determined to make sure that your plant is completely disease -free, you are going to find them suffering from their insect enemies, sometime or...

Table of Contents Introduction Radishes to Cure Stomach Ailments Indigestion Dyspepsia Flatulence Constipation Diarrhea Stomachache Dropsy Flatulence Ulcers Acidity/Acid Reflux Radishes to Cure Chronic Diseases Radishes for Your Heart Jaundice Diabetes High and Low Blood Pressure Weight loss Gout Conclusion Author Bio Publisher Introduction When I wrote a book upon the magic of radishes a couple of years ago in my" Magic of..." series, I had not known that this vegetable has been used all over the World in order to heal, cure, and prevent a large number of diseases, both common and chronic...