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Growing Lilies Big Time – Part 2

Introduction: This is part 2 of an article written by legendary lily grower – Jan De Graaff in 1961. Where he recounts his journey large scale lily growing. Read Part 1 on Growing Lilies Big Time here. Different Flowering Seasons & Growth Habits The greatest value of these new plants lies not in their variety […]

Growing Lilies Big Time – A Look Back

Introduction: The following article was written by legendary lily grower – Jan De Graaff in 1961. In this article penned 50 years ago. Mr. De Graaff, recounts his journey of hybridizing, and growing lilies on a commercial scale. Read Part 1 and enjoy a glimpse of the garden lily glory days. This is the tenth […]

Add Lilies to Your Landscape Planting Plans

We don’t know what kind of garden Kipling had in mind when he wrote, “Such gardens are not made by saying, oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade”, but it may well have been a continuous-blooming garden or border that flowers from spring to fall. The continuous-blooming garden is probably the aim of more […]

Selecting And Fit – Wild Flowers for Summer

We gardeners are human. When hot days come we want to sway in the hammock and just watch the garden bloom. No flowers are better suited to this resistance to work than the wild flowers that arrive at their peak of beauty in summer sun. Every color of the rainbow, every form and fragrance can […]

Once Popular, Long Ignored – The Caladium

There are only a few good Summer-time pot plant subjects, and the fancy-leaved caladium is neither the last nor the least of these. The caladiums are a glorious, colorful tribe of hybrid tuberous plants, belonging to that great group of aroids, known to gardeners as “elephants-ears.” Indeed, many plant lovers in the lower South know […]

Fuchsias – Can They Be Trellis Trained?

Question: We live in California and wanted to know if Fuchsias can be trained and grown on a trellis? Ellen, Walnut Creek, California Answer: Ellen, are you making full use of those adaptable shrubs that can be used as pot plants, garden bushes, espaliers and often as groundcovers? Among them are Ribes viburnifolium, Correa speciosa […]

For Spectacular Patio Color – The Glory Lily

Gloriosa or glory-lily (Gloriosa rothschildiana) has been attracting considerable attention at the spring flower shows for years. These spectacular flowers of rich coloring are most satisfactory for cutting and last well. Like gladiolus they can be planted outdoors in spring as soon as the soil becomes warm enough to handle comfortably. These exotic flowers are […]

Progress and Prospects Chrysanthemums for the North

Gardeners in such states as Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and one or two of their near neighbors, formerly had difficulty in planning their gardens so they were full of bloom in the late Summer and early Fall months. The fact was impressed on me during a trip to the East in late Summer a […]

Spring Again With Colchicums

The so-called “autumn crocus” (Colchicum autumnale) is of easy culture and deserves to be more widely grown. In color it is a soft rose-lilac. Varieties are C. a. major, which has larger blooms of a warm lavender color, and C. a. minor, with smaller, rosy-purple flowers that appear earlier. Most striking of all is the […]

Daffodils Grow Best In Sod

The naturalizing of daffodils is a delightful hobby for anyone who has a plot where the grass can remain uncut until the foliage has thoroughly ripened and disintegrated or disappeared and pulls away easily from the bulb. If you are fortunate enough to have, in addition to open ground, some thin woodland where the sun […]