Flowering

Fall Corsages From Your Own Flowers

Fall Corsages

The abundance of flowers all through the fall gives rise to the feeling that they must be enjoyed everywhere – in the garden, in bouquets throughout the home, and for

Sacred Lily Of India

Sacred Lily

Would you like to grow a tuberous rooted plant native to Indochina in your window garden or greenhouse?  Hydrosme (he-DROSme) is a member of the arum family and sits on

Plant The Little Bulbs Indoors

Indoor Bulbs

Why wait for spring when bleak winter clays can be bright with early flowering bulbs? Designed for busy people and limited window space, these cool-flowering bulbs, often called “the minor

Ways To Use Bulbs

Using Bulbs

Perhaps you’ll want most of your bulbs in the flower garden with other flowers. Daffodils are pretty there, in clumps of named varieties set midway across a border—although the tiniest

Depth And Spacing Of 23 Bulbs To Plant

Depth Spacing Bulbs

Planting a bulb is one of the simplest procedures in gardening. Most planted this fall will respond and bloom next spring even if you plant them upside down (but please

Selecting Hyacinths

Selecting Hyacinths

The stiff 10-inch columns of red, pink, blue, purple, yellow, and white of the Dutch hyacinths make a good early spring color where you want formality. Hyacinths are also an

Cradles Of Our Music Makers

Birds

As I look out my study window and across the neighboring field, I can see the signal flags of the red maples that line the woodland border flashing in the

New Beauty For Lilies

Lilies

As lilies become more beautiful, they become tougher also. This happy situation puts them in the front running for flower popularity in the near future.  As soon as gardeners discover

Coffee Cans A Useful Of Garden Accessory

Coffee Cans

Coffee cans are among the most useful of my gardening accessories. They can be used to store broken pottery bits I use over drainage holes in flower pots.  Their tight-fitting