Tips on Indoor Garden
In the garden room a wide assortment of house plants can also be grown in pots suspended in wall brackets. In the living-room wall brackets are only suitable for the hardier types of plant, but the moister conditions in the garden room will allow for the use of many more delicate plants. Columneas are excellent for both hanging baskets and wall brackets, and the delightful Campanula isophylla, the star of Bethlehem, is an essential plant where cooler conditions prevail.
A little space should he allowed for between the trellis and the wall so that plants can be easily tied and to allow for circulation ofair. Constructed in light timber, trellis of this kind can also he used for camouflaging unsightly central supports in the larger plant room. Here again one may have climbing plants by preparing a bed of compost at the foot of the post, or by having plants in free-standing decorative containers.
Growing advice amounts to little more than keeping the plants in reasonably good light not full sun under glass watering and feeding regularly and potting on into reasonably large containers fairly early in the season. Try putting five or six cuttings in a large basket early in the season, mid-April say, and you will be quite amazed by the display provided with very little eflbrt on your part only a few months later.
Let there be no mistake, the garden room will be filled to capacity in a remarkably short space of time. It won’t take many weeks before you will be standing with a pot of plants in each hand wondering where in the world you are going to put them.
For a really spick-and-span garden room the possibility of having a small support greenhouse is worth considering similar to the botanic garden principle. If the sundry operations required to keep a collection of plants in good condition are all performed in the garden room it soon becomes cluttered with all sorts of odds and ends for potting, propagating and such like.
It is much better to have a special place like the small greenhouse for these tasks. It will also be invaluable as a sick bay where plants may be put to recover (or die peacefully!) instead of being left in the plant room to mar its appearance.
