Make Your Garden A Daily Show
When unexpected visitors drop by to see your garden, do you ever wish they’d come last week when the phlox were at their height or next when the dahlias would
Growing Tips
Hand Savers For Today’s Gardener
Lovely garden, lovely house, flowers indoors and out, and rough, grimy hands! It just is not necessary. Still, you can’t be much of a gardener without getting your hands into
A Lesson On Plant Heredity
A study of heredity in plants almost always begins with a look at the work of Gregory Mendel. With no knowledge of exactly how it happened within the plant, Mendel
Keeping Your Own Personal Gardening Guide
MAY 18 – First flowers opened on ‘Little Gem’ alyssum in bed bordering rear walk-30 clays after sowing. Plants have a height and spread of three inches. May 25 –
Plant Mutation Natures Prank
Nature is tricky, all right – she always has something up her sleeve. She sends a pest to eradicate the plant you thought was in the best health, then works
Basic Botany for Gardeners: Seeds and Fruits
Why is a grain of corn a fruit while a pea is a seed? Do these people who call a tomato a fruit know what they are talking about? If
I Rejuvenate the Old Plant
Have you ever kept a Christmas poinsettia, wondering what to do with the almost leafless stalks? The plant can be saved, and it will bloom another year. Toward the end
The Cost of Beauty
In the course of expressing herself about how I have helped awaken a desire for “beautifying our surroundings at a small cost,” a Kentucky woman has written some nice things
How Your Plants Behave In Sunlight And Shade
What, to plants, is the meaning of shade? Have we ever asked ourselves why the sunflower loves the sun, the wood anemone the woods? Why is it that certain plants
Variegated Foliage: How To Tips On Using Green and White for Accent
Plants with variegated foliage offer unusual possibilities in a garden. They may be used to create dramatic effects and are particularly valuable in shade or where flowers are scarce. However,