The Graceful Golden Rain Tree
If you want a graceful, lacy tree festooned in midsummer with great sprays of yellow flowers, choose the golden rain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) for your lawn or parkway. It is
Landscape
Warbler Economically Valuable Native Bird
Birds serve to maintain balance in nature by keeping in check insects, rodents, reptiles, and amphibia, the overpopulation of any one of which could drive a man from great areas
What Is Tip Blight on Midwestern Hard Pines
In recent years, a disease, steadily increasing in severity, has ravished many pine plantings. The Austrian pine is the most seriously affected species in the Midwest, with older trees dying
The Gardens Are Key to the Heart of England
To visit England is to visit a land of gardens—the most beautiful gardens in the world. And a large proportion of these gardens is open to the public, either for
Gardens Make Pictures
A landscape is a picture that makes its own frame. Roofed by the sky, rimmed by trees, and floored with the solid earth. Every part of a garden composes itself
Gardening As A Lively Art
“We weren’t going to kill ourselves gardening,” said Lewis Gannett in his book “Cream Hill.” “Just a vegetable garden the first year and a few ferns was our motto. But
Taming The Woods
If you own a fine piece of woodland, you have three choices before you: to leave it a tangle of virgin growth, to “pretty it up” artificially, or to tame
A Thin Little Grove
There is often a strip of ground in a garden that can only be put to good purpose with more labor than we can devote to it. It may once
Types Of Broad-Leaved Evergreens
In contrast to the needle evergreens, such as yew, pine, hemlock, spruce, and many others, the broad-leaved types are valued for their richly-textured foliage. Many have showy blooms, which add
Soil Makes The Rose
Good soil means good roses. However, what makes soil good is not simple; it is highly complex. There are three possible sources from which rose roots can extract their nutrients;