Summary: Even though your property may be small, you can still select fruit trees to suit its size. Did you know that you can select apple trees to suit the size of your home grounds in much the same way you would choose a thoroughbred puppy? With dogs the size at maturity goes according to […]
Garden Miniatures – Small Bulbs With BIG Charm
Not everyone is impressed by large and showy, we all love the small and charming. The hoop-petticoat daffodil an bring one to their knees. The elegant tree peonies are admired but one stops for the tiny blue-and-white-striped tassels of Puschkinia scilloides – and treat them like little jewels. Let’s look at some garden miniatures.
The Landscape Offer – Tulips Like Onions
My uncle told me of the “old days” of landscaping and bulb offers of decades past. He told me how sometime between Columbus Day and Thanksgiving his sister-in-law approached him with a neat little cardboard box in one hand and something that looked like acorns or shelled peanuts in the other. “Look, Ted,” she said, […]
Oxydendrum arboreum – The Sourwood Tree
Question: What can you tell me about the sourwood tree – Oxydendrum arboreum? Karl, Towson, Maryland Answer: Karl, the sourwood tree – Oxydendrum arboreum – has exceptionally good foliage from spring to fall, beautiful summer flowers and a dense pyramidal form (the maximum height is 60 feet although the tree is usually smaller) make the […]
Sapphire Berry – Blue Berries Of Special Brilliance
Blue berries of a special brilliance, hardly approached by those of any other hardy plant, make the sapphire berry particularly well named. This display is at its best in many sections of the country in September, although it may start somewhat earlier in the southern states. The effect of a well-grown specimen, with its branchlets […]
Flowering Philodendrons
I really enjoyed the philodendron article – Philodendron For Every Fancy – as we have a large philodendron hastatum – which flowered this spring. The plant is now seven years old and some 6 feet tall. The flower took three months to develop and then stayed open for only one day. It looked like a […]
Peruvian Lilies With 50 Inch Stem
I wanted to share my experience in growing Peruvian lilies as I found the article – Falling For Peruvian Lily blooms amusing. I have been growing Peruvian lilies for about five years and they have flowered regularly every year. I read that they shouldn’t be chilled in storage so I keep the bulbs in a […]
How to Have a Border Full of Spring Flowers
Staging a continuous and satisfactory display of bloom in the perennial border poses the same kind of problem to the gardener as the presentation of a “hit” show does to a Broadway producer. The producer’s problem is to open the show with a magnificent display of color and song and then arrange things so that […]
Give Your Daffodils a Natural Setting
The technically minded say narcissus, the more poetically inclined say daffodil, and there are those, too, who prefer jonquil to either. But whatever name they use they all have in mind the loveliest of all the harbingers of spring. As to the correctness of names, narcissus is the correct botanical or Latin name for the […]
Improving Landscape Maintenance, Lawn Care and Gardening With Power Tools
One of the biggest developments in connection with the “green garden urge” is the variety of labor-saving tools that turns gardening, landscape maintenance and lawn care into a time saver and pleasure. For many people, the biggest draw-back to gardening was the cultivation and preparation of the garden plot, and the constant weeding. Originally this […]
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