Sawdust Mulch For Daffodils
Sawdust, I have discovered, is an excellent mulch for daffodils. Its greatest advantage is its almost total suppression of weeds. This has allowed me to grow a collection of 135
Landscape
Peonies: Positioning for the Perfect Bloom
Our first adventure with peonies started almost 40 years ago when we bought a collection of about a dozen varieties. This included: We moved our garden twice in the following
Enrich Your Soil with Green Manures
There is no closed season on good soil improvement practices for the gardener who wants the best from his land. True, in most places, the frozen ground of winter puts
Mushroom Mastery: DIY Mushroom Gardening
There’s no secret to growing mushrooms! Any gardener can do it if he has access to a dark room or cellar where temperature and ventilation can be controlled. Mushroom culture
Turn Big, Bad Clay into Beautiful Gardens
They said when I came to Hillcrest Acres (it was Mudcrest then) that I would never have a flower garden on the heavy, sticky, joint clay. I was almost ready
Climbing to Garden Greatness: Fruiting Vines
If any appraisal of ornamental fruiting vines, the bittersweet are among the first to come to mind. The American bittersweet Celastrus scandens is spectacular in Autumn when its yellow fruits
Common Witch-Hazel
Witch-hazels are among the most typical undercover shrubs of eastern forests. Great diversification in the places where they grow wild offers a good index to their usefulness in landscape plantings.
Three Willows
The year 1950 was a good time to tell the story of our great crack willow trees. They began in the spring of 1850 when Grandpa was the pilot, the
Trees Are Characters
Trees have a character like people. Some of them are lovable; others a trifle crotchety. Birch Tree A gray birch, for example, is like a rough, aggressive little fellow born
Some Useful Ideas On Winter Protection
Proper precautions are necessary for a successful wintering of perennials, bulbs, ornamental shrubs and trees, fruit trees, and berries, where reasonably severe winters are normally expected. Seasons vary, and the