Plant Ideas for Containers
Four excellent possibilities are presented here when planting in containers: succulents, carissa, and holly leaf osmanthus, and for an oddity, the scouring rush or equisetum. Pertinent Suggestions For Potted Plants
Landscape
An Adventure in Pot Gardening
The roof garden at the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland, designed and constructed in 1940 by the Garden Club of Cleveland in conjunction with the City’s sesquicentennial celebration, has become
Home in the Landscape
Never in the history of gardening have so many kinds of flowering plants been as easy to obtain as they are today. The assortment is so rich and varied that
The Lovely Eastern RedBud – Cercis Canadensis
Among the small secondary trees, few, if any, bloom in as great profusion as the redbud. The best-known species is Cercis canadensis, native from southwestern Ontario to New York, New
The Graceful Golden Rain Tree
If you want a graceful, lacy tree festooned in midsummer with great sprays of yellow flowers, choose the golden rain tree (Koelreuteria paniculata) for your lawn or parkway. It is
Warbler Economically Valuable Native Bird
Birds serve to maintain balance in nature by keeping in check insects, rodents, reptiles, and amphibia, the overpopulation of any one of which could drive a man from great areas
What Is Tip Blight on Midwestern Hard Pines
In recent years, a disease, steadily increasing in severity, has ravished many pine plantings. The Austrian pine is the most seriously affected species in the Midwest, with older trees dying
The Gardens Are Key to the Heart of England
To visit England is to visit a land of gardens—the most beautiful gardens in the world. And a large proportion of these gardens is open to the public, either for
Gardens Make Pictures
A landscape is a picture that makes its own frame. Roofed by the sky, rimmed by trees, and floored with the solid earth. Every part of a garden composes itself
Gardening As A Lively Art
“We weren’t going to kill ourselves gardening,” said Lewis Gannett in his book “Cream Hill.” “Just a vegetable garden the first year and a few ferns was our motto. But