Gardening Tools Yes, indeed, gardening is a perfectly legitimate indoor hobby. In many ways miniature gardening is a better hobby than gardening outdoors. Full-scale garden work becomes a chore, no matter how much you love the outdoors, when those golden-tinted autumn leaves fall or the drought nips the buds or the pests run riot and the downpour drowns your tiny seedlings. Physically, "real" gardening becomes a strain. The problems lying out there in the yard can assume the proportions of a dire personal worry. A tiny garden plot consisting of a rose garden, or a herb garden, or an informal rock garden, is about all the average hobbyist can happily handle. But indoor gardens present only minor problems at their worst, and they are a constant source of pleasure as a rule.

The best way of enjoying a garden is to live in the city and have no real garden at all. If you love to trim plants and smell moist soil, you need not feel deprived if you have an indoor garden. Your choice may be window boxes or potted plants, tiny Japanese rock gardens or gardens without soil. Whatever it is, it will offer you relaxation and beauty.

A wide variety of plants are suitable for window-box gardening. The simple, tried favorites are by far the best. Plants should be selected to fit available conditions of sun and shade. Upright plants that do well in sunny exposures are lantana, petunia, nasturtium, the dwarf marigold, the ever-blooming begonia, heliotrope and geranium. Sun-loving trailing plants that are sturdy and attractive include the trailing versions of lantana and geranium, and the German and English varieties of ivy. Shady boxes are suitable for the standard begonia, viola, fuchsia, forget-me-not, and almost any fern or foliage plant.




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December 4, 2008