Off-Beat And Uncommon Edgings For The Garden
Who says every garden bed must be edged with military rows of prim, plump marigolds or ageratum? There are several uncommon but equally decorative edging plants and dozens of vegetables
Landscape
Grow Your Own Mulch
It doesn’t take much space to raise an abundance of mulch. Then, as the various garden crops are harvested, just plant the idle ground in a mulch crop, even late
Experience Shares The Top Flowers for Flower Boxes
Over several years, we have watched the ebb and flow of the flower box tide in this flower box city. We have some suggestions for what we have found, partly
Watering Keeps the Sparkle in Summer Gardens
Do spring’s incessant showers bewitch you into thinking that midsummer will be just as kind to your garden? For most climates, drought in varying degrees of severity is a certainty
Does Your House Need a Lift?
The tree or shrub in the right place will give your house an Iift. Likewise, thought given to the selection and grouping of the plants you use on your property
Large Bloom Hybrids Of Hibiscus
The common rose-mallow or hibiscus has always been one of the showiest perennials, but recently new hybrids have been developed with blooms of larger size and clearer colors. These new
The Colorful Mountain Brook Garden
Those flowers show dream gardens I see each year in March fascinate me. Bursting with flowering bulbs, dainty primroses, running brooks, and colorful native shrubs, they spur me on in
When Oak Leaves Are the Size of a Mouse’s Ear
A chapter excerpt from a forthcoming new book by Jean Hersey, “Two Hundred WildFlowers to Know, to Crow, to Protect” (to be published by D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc.) Spring
Cultivate For Better Plants
The major reason for cultivating soil is to kill weed seedlings around desirable plants. It also enables us to mix compost, manures, and fertilizers into the soil. It breaks soil
Lupin
Since George Russell’s work in Yorkshire with Lupinus polyphyllus, which he crossed with other lupins, created the magnificent new strain that now bears his name, and the lupin ranks with