Flower Gardening

Cut a 12- to 15-inch piece off a non-blooming branch in July or August. Cut the clipped stem in two or three pieces, making sure that each section has at least two nodes that can be placed into the potting soil. Strip the foliage, except for the top few leaves of each cutting. If the top leaves are large, cut ...

How To : locate a stem of softwood between the hard, woody growth at the bottom of the plant and the fleshy green tip by bending it; softwood should snap cleanly. Cut a softwood shoot that has several leaves. Trim it into 5-inch-long pieces that each have a leaf toward the top. Remove extra leaves; then cuts the remaining leaf ...

How to : First fill your pot with cacti potting mix. Wet your sphagnum moss. Then squeeze any exess water out. Then put on top of the cacti potting mix. You hould remove any hard stems from the moss. then vreate a mounded top from it.about an inch higher then the rim of the top.

You will need : Paperwhites bulbs. a glass jar white pebbles water In a glass jar, make a bed of pebbles or glass beads. Orient each bulb with its flat side down and position it atop the pebbles bed. After each bulb has been seated, fill the spaces between the bulbs with more pebbles. Fill the container with water to ...