Hedges may be formal or informal. A formal hedge is pruned with hedge shears to keep it to the desired form and size, while an informal hedge is allowed to grow more or less naturally with just enough pruning to keep it within bounds. Prevent Hedges Growing Up Fast One important thing to remember with … Read more
When leaves begin to turn and frost sears all but the plants near the house foundation, don’t you wish you could take just a little bit of summer into the kitchen to keep when it snows? Well, you can. Look under the long, rangy petunias with pointed, bursting seed pods. You’ll find the little fellows, … Read more
While every section of the country has its climatic vagaries, it would seem that the Midwest, that expensive region of the interior stretching from the hills of eastern Ohio west to the Great Plains and northward from the Ohio River to the Canadian Border is subject to more difficult growing conditions than any other part … Read more
Your front yard should not be over-stuffed with planting; neither should you starve it of trees and shrubs. There is a happy medium. It results from good landscape design where every tree or shrub contributes in some way to making your house more attractive, either by emphasizing its good architectural features or by softening the … Read more
Many valued American plants have their counterparts in Japan or China. This is true of the dogwoods, for the small Japanese (Cornus Kansa) and Chinese C. Kousa chinensis) dogwoods are just as much valued in their native lands as our native flowering dogwood (C. Florida] and Western Dogwood (C. Moulin) are valued here. Japanese dogwood … Read more
Your garden tractor can be as useful in September as it was in May. Whether you are a suburban homeowner and hobby flower gardener or grow vegetables on a highway, you can get both satisfaction and profit from keeping your tractor equipment working for you as many days as possible and at many different jobs. … Read more
You, Mr. and Mrs. Homeowner, may have much to do with the spread of Dutch elm disease, which has been spreading rapidly throughout several eastern states during the war years. In Connecticut, the disease is now found in every county. An outbreak has been discovered in the Province of Quebec, Canada, and a section of … Read more
For years I adored them from afar, convinced their patrician beauty was beyond attainment for lack of skill and the price. Yet I could never resist poring over pictures of their great white or golden or freckled orange trumpets or reading articles on their culture. Even books. Some authorities made raising lilies appear extremely difficult … Read more
Blue in the garden spreads a cooling reflection of the sky wherever it appears. But good garden blues are rare. There are many purple flowers or those of a rosy hue, but the narrow spectrum that can honestly be called blue has comparatively few representatives among summer flowers. Two Blue Veronicas Veronicas are predominantly blue … Read more
The Fiftieth Annual Exhibition of the American Peony Society, sponsored and staged by the Minnesota Peony and Iris Society in the large lobby of the Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis on June 21 and 22, was one of the most beautiful and complete ever held. June 21 was a little early for the late-blooming peonies … Read more