Landscape

There are a few wildflowers which belong to the plant aristocracy. Lathyrus splendens, Pride-of-California or Campo Pea, is surely deserving of high regard. Why? Just for one thing: it’s a

In many areas of the country, the coldest winds come from the north, northeast, and northwest.  Curved Planting In summer, on the other hand, they usually emanate from the west,

One of the perpetual perplexities of my garden existence is how to tell a Genista from a Cytisus. So when is it a broom and not a broom?  Cytisus And

In a sunny situation, Chrysogonum virginicum, commonly referred to as the golden star, will show you a multitude of starry yellow blossoms rising from green carpets to reach the height

While thinking of all the places where rock gardens are to be seen or of sites where rock plants might be growing, there seem to be three types of terrain

Who says there’s nothing new under the sun?  Not the flower arranger, surely. And to prove how right she is, there now comes a harvest of new and desirable vases,

The plant breeder is truly a creator, for he works, not with such dead chemicals as pigments, but with those infinitesimally small yet living chemicals galled “genes.”  Genes: Bearers Of