Men are likely to be attracted to hybridizing, air-layering, and grafting, or they may want to specialize in some hobby plants like Easter lilies, poinsettias, begonias, camellias, or even orchids. Women usually are more interested in roses, African-violets, and cut flowers and flower arrangements for the house. Children are absorbed in what happens to the seeds they sow. When the first green tip breaks the soil, or bulb spear turns green, it is unbelievably fascinating. As you watch true leaves form on seedlings, and each small seedling develop into a choice specimen, you sense an affinity for this child of nature that is your own to care for right up to the rewarding fullness of colorful and fruitful maturity.
Most people start their gardening activities without a greenhouse.
Very soon, though, they learn the handicaps they work under and the opportunities that are closed to them. The greenhouse vastly enlarges the scope of your gardening. It saves the cost of buying many kinds of plants, enables you to propagate your chosen varieties, and provides a supply of vegetables for the dinner table. When you place glass over a plant, you give the plant a new world of its own. The use of glass or any other transparent cover to provide shelter for plants does not necessarily imply a greenhouse, however.