The design of any large parking area is primarily engineering involving the safe control and movement of vehicles and pedestrians. However, throughout the design of such a development, some areas lend themselves very well to the introduction of planting. In the Quincy Municipal Parking Area, many spaces were particularly adapted to a more enjoyable planting … Read more
Despite all that may be said or that may be read, most of us learn by example rather than by precept. Visiting a garden is usually a most enjoyable occasion, and very frequently a most profitable one, for the opportunity to appraise the value of practices and material is not to be ignored by any … Read more
I gladly accede to the request of your editor to write a short essay on the subject of roses, for I know, full well, that if I am successful in stimulating present or new interest in rose growing, my time will have been well spent. Gardening of any kind, from the growing of vegetables to … Read more
How many roses did you lose last winter? How many more are borderline cases—weak looking and with a lot of die-back when you start to prune them, but still with a bit of life left so that as you go over them you decide to let them remain, on the slim chance that they may … Read more
There is an increasing interest in rose shows and, therefore, in timing techniques or methods that enable gardeners to grow flowers in perfect condition for exhibition. Our method of growing roses for this purpose is good but is not guaranteed. Nothing in the growing of roses can be “guaranteed” except the inevitable bugs and blight. … Read more
Here’s how simple it is to plant and successfully grow roses. Plant Location Any location which receives sunlight at least half of the day (or in which annuals, perennials, or vegetables have been successfully grown) can be made to grow good roses. In selecting a location for the rose garden, choose one that will receive … Read more
Roses don’t have to be grown in rose beds. They can be grown anywhere in the garden where they’ll get at least five hours of full sunshine a day, and they can be used for just about any kind of garden effect you may think of. That’s what makes roses such incomparably wonderful garden plants. … Read more
Spring is the time to plant roses, and the climbers are among those to set out. Every garden, no matter how small or large, has room for a few plants which require little space and not too much care. Climbing roses may be grown for screening or ornamental purposes. For example, they can be trained … Read more
On one of his visits to America, the late rose hybridizer Francis Meilland remarked that the American does not use and grow roses nearly so extensively as he should. Seldom are the different rose types used as borders, edgings, screens, hedges, entrance plantings, or for masses of color with evergreens and shrubs in residence plantings. … Read more
“I’m from the North,” she said, “and I haven’t seen a good-looking rose since I’ve been in Florida.” She was a gardener and a rose-lover; like all enthusiastic gardening specialists, she tended towards exaggeration, for fine roses are grown in Florida. Yet it is certainly true that one must look far and wide to find … Read more