Tender plants and bulbs for the garden started in the greenhouse are put out into their summer positions early this month. Tuberous begonias, caladiums, coleus, impatiens, fuchsias, and geraniums join
Late spring and early summer are when to start biennials from seed if you want to enjoy their flowers next year. For biennials need a whole growing season before they
How often have you looked at a photograph of a beautiful border of perennials and biennials and wished that you might have one like it? But when you looked in
Air layering, or inducing roots to form on a branch while it is still attached to the plant, is one of the oldest propagation methods and is also one of
The St. Johnsworts make up a large group of herbaceous and shrubby plants widely distributed over the northern hemisphere. A number of the herbaceous kinds and some of the moderately
Gardening as a happy and healthful experience is a balanced combination of planning, timing, physical effort, and mechanical and chemical aids, with the most significant emphasis on the first three.
In recent years, the switch to high analysis, quickly soluble, complete plant foods by thousands of gardeners and commercial growers of food and ornamental plants is an outstanding development of
A significant survey was conducted some time back to check the most common mistakes of amateur gardeners. The area covered was part of the Midwest and much of the Northeast;
Would you like to have a naturalistic garden of native flowering plants? Have you always thought that a woodland plot or other natural habitat is necessary to grow wildflowers? Many
Bamboo. The very word conjures up pictures of a lush tropical jungle steaming under a downpour of rain or arching, swaying canes tossing their luxuriant burden of foliage along river