Flowers For The Home - Hydroponics

Soilless gardening is a hobby that combines both science and art, affording ample scope for ingenious and attractive arrangements and floral displays. With hydroponics you can be sure of good technical control over plants. Beginners will find home growing without soil can bring much satisfaction and many interesting and happy hours spent in the operation of hydroponic units. All the same, home gardeners succeed best when they develop an awareness of the needs and habits of different kinds of plants. There is no real substitute for abundant and loving care and an observant mind. Today, most householders, given space, will also be amateur gardeners. The value of soilless culture is that, even when conditions are congested, the chance of having a garden, small though it may be, is not lost. New fashions in flowers have appeared, with varieties for contrasting requirements. Year by year, the popularity of homegrown blooms increases.

The urge to have flowers and foliage in and around homes is very old. The Romans grew plants in pots in their villas, and, for centuries both the Japanese and the Chinese have specialised in miniature indoor gardens, as well as larger outside ones. In Europe, covered orangeries were once a feature of stately houses, while cottages and town residence windows used to be bright with fuschias and geraniums in summer time. Many tropical lands are well known for the beautiful plant houses attached to the homes of important people. Still, numerous amateurs and housewives continue to suffer grievous disappointments in their efforts to grow garden flowers and indoor plants. Millions of plants die quickly owing to the failure of their owners to look after them properly or because of wrong cultural advice. Then, too, most specimens bought from stores, nurseries, florists and markets have been forced into unnatural development by artificial means before sale, or may be infected with diseases not apparent to the untrained eye at the time of purchase. The soils or composts in which they are rooted are frequently unsuitable or rapidly become exhausted. Consequently, such plants soon languish and die.

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