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Pep Up Your Rock Garden!

Rock gardens are beautiful in May and June, but after that they look so dull!” Haven’t you heard that remark or thought the same thing? Rock gardens are in their glory during these two months, but they need not lack beauty the remaining ten months of the year. Well Planned Rock Garden In a well […]

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Pruning Shears – Essential Garden Tools

  For best performance over a wide selection of plants there is the “Snap-cut,” where the straight cutting blade comes down on a soft metal anvil, or the curved-blade type, the selection of oldtime gardeners, with a ratchet lock nut. Either will effectively cut 1-inch stems of gardening plants – not hard, dead wood. One […]

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Oriental Poppies

The hybrid Oriental poppies present an eyeful of color in the late spring and early summer garden which it would be hard to match. During the past few years we have been growing these poppies in considerable variety and we find them so outstanding that they draw the immediate attention of all visitors. With a […]

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Doublefile Viburnum – Japanese Snowball Bush

Doublefile viburnum (Japanese Snowball Bush) attracts particular attention at this time of the year. With flat clusters of white flowers spaced in pairs along the spreading branches, the effect of this vigorous shrub is most distinctive and pleasing. Due to this brilliant white effect as well as to a marked horizontal or shelving type of […]

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Roses For Beginners

You don’t have to be an expert to grow roses. Witness the showers of brilliant blooms often seen hugging the walls of an Old World cottage. Roses belong to history and to the storied gardens of ancient castles. They belong also in your garden and mine, where they lend an air of beauty equaled by […]

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Planning Your Perennial Border

The wise gardener plans a basic perennial border which will give continuous bloom throughout the season and little work in years to come Your garden, first of all, should be an expression of yourself. It’s a good idea to study the fundamental rules of landscape architecture and to consult authorities for good garden practices, but […]

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Landscaping A Medium-Size Garden

Several years ago, having acquired an old-fashioned suburban house with a good-sized lot, two “green-thumbed” city dwellers enthusiastically planned their first garden. Years earlier before moving from the city to the “country”, they dreamed of the lovely garden they hoped to have some day. When they began, they planted tulip bulbs upside down! Today, their […]

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6 Weeks

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Quince

QUINCE – Various shrubs grown for fruit or ornament or both. The common quince (Cydonia oblonga, but formerly in-cluded with apples and pears as Pyrus cyclonic’) is a wide-spreading shrub or small crooked tree of slow growth. It thrives best in deep, heavy, moist, not over-rich soil, where, however, the fruit produced is dull greenish-yellow […]

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Agave – The Century Plant

Agave (century plant). These plants are natives of the Western Hemisphere and belong in a separate family, the Agavaceae. The common name, century plant, refers to the tardy bloom of Agave americana, but that they bloom only when a hundred years old is fallacious. It is said that they flower when six years old in […]

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