It Is Time For A Phlox Round Up
The phlox family is the most interesting one. Besides phlox, it includes polemonium, gilia, and cobaea. Many of us know the native polemonium with its lovely blue flowers and compound
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What Peonies To Plant In Fall?
Peonies are just as popular today as they were m our great-grandmother’s day. Their continued esteem by gardeners is easy to understand when we consider the following: Soil Preparation Given
Summer Rainbows: Adding Color To Your Garden?
From the orient have come some of our loveliest garden flowers. The exotic Japanese iris is one of them. It is a valuable addition to any garden, large or small,
What Makes Lilies So Alluring To Gardeners?
Our half-acre garden has seen many changes in the 33 years we have been working on it. When we moved out of the city, our thoughts were much the same
How To Grow Perfect Peonies?
It is a foregone conclusion that no one will ever grow the perfect peony. But our aim should be to approach this goal as nearly as possible. The following will
Are You Ready To Add A Pop Of Pink With A Stunning Iris?
One morning in 1942, while inspecting our iris seedlings, I was startled when I saw that one of the buds just opening was a deep pink, almost rose red. I
The Perfect Mid-Size Bloom: The Versatile Median Iris
Although American hybridizers have been growing bearded irises for little more than fifty years, they have produced countless numbers of the most beautiful irises in the world today. Now a
A House Plant Of Tomorrow? The Royal Haemanthus
The royal group of spectacular flowering bulbs, the Haemanthus or blood lilies, forming one of the amaryllis family’s most colorful and aristocratic sections, shows a strong and steady upward trend
What’s The Loveliest Lily Of All?
The Madonna lily, Lilium candidum, has been cultivated in gardens for a long time for over 3,400 years. Such popularity is richly deserved, for it is the loveliest lily in
The Little Low Iris A Pleasure To Grow
The adjectives miniature, dwarf, and low growing used to describe iris mean different things to irisarians, botanists, and gardeners. In fact, only in recent years have clear-cut distinctions been made