Earliest April coaxes out the white, yellow and purple of tulip time’s advance color-bearer – the species tulip Tulipa biflora – with the whole resplendent army of species tulips following close behind. For these native or wild tulips come early and stay late – as we like all our favorite visitors to do. And these […]

The crisp days of autumn offer an ideal time for planning and planting the garden. While the successes and failures of the season just past are still fresh in mind, the gardener can correct his mistakes in color combinations and placement of plants, at the same time adding new flowers and improving the over-all garden […]

For the most part, the Summer-flowering perennials are sturdy plants that can withstand high temperatures rind fairly-dry The mallows are deep-rooted arid once established, will flourish for many years. They grow best where the soil is on the moist side. Yuccas thrive in hot, dry locutions, even on slopes and make striking accent plants in […]

It is too easy to forget that midsummer as well as fall is a time for planting bulbs. This is one of the months (August) for putting in the bulbs of Sprekelia formosissima, an amaryllid from Mexico which is known as Aztec lily, St. James lily and Jacobean lily. If your ground is heavy, give […]

Can you look forward to still another season of colorful flowers when early frosts mow down zinnias, asters and the other annuals in your garden? You can if you have plantings of the hardy bulbs which, set out in late summer, make welcome patches of bloom on crisp October and November days to vie with […]