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Coral Cactus

Coral Cactus is not a true cactus, it is only grafted on a cactus. It is a Euphobia Lactea Crest grafted to a cactus. Crest are rare in the wild but with so many new techniques they are easily found. Coral Cactus was so odd looking that is why many gardeners say that when it […]

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Hedges, Border, Screen and Background Planting in Home Landscaping

Close clipped hedges of various heights give a trim air to a suburban home whether used across the front of the yard, and at each side of a path to the doors, or whether used as a boundary hedge between neighboring yards. For a high hedge in such cases, or in cold climates the hardy […]

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Foundation Planting and Home Landscaping

The usual banal foundation planting consists of a line of stiffly pointed or globular evergreens swaddling the house at ground level. The problem of simplifying this procedure depends on organizing the material into groups located only where they are needed, as at the front entrance to emphasize its importance. A symmetrical formal treatment is effective […]

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Try The Bromeliads – Newest Things in House Plants in the 1950’s

For many generations the Bromeliaceae, “air plants” as they are better known, have been treasured members of choice greenhouse and conservatory collections. It is only in the recent years – starting back in the early 1950’s – of pot plant development, when orchids are sold like geraniums and saintpaulias are found on every window sill, […]

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Terrariums – The Mini-Greenhouse

Have you an old discarded fish bowl that could be made into a terrarium? Place some bits of charcoal in the bottom and then add two to four inches of a mixture of peat moss, sand and good compost or using bagged African violet soil. Unless you have a supply of potting soil that isn’t […]

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Meet the Kaempferias

If you grow potted plants you deserve to make the acquaintance of the kaempferias or ginger-lilies. Our favorite, Kaempferia roscoeana, has become such an old friend, we’ve taken to calling it just “Roscoe.” A friend of mine praises Kaempferia rotunda and I’m adding it to my collection this year. Kaempferia roscoeana has rounded green and […]

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Caryopteris – Blue Spirea Not!

Unfortunately, some unimaginative nurseryman coined the common name “blue spirea” for this very excellent small shrub. In so doing he unwittingly did the plant a disservice for the name immediately identified it with the ubiquitous Spiraea Vanhouttei which is, perhaps, the most common shrub to be found in the garden and landscape plantings of America. […]

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The Sweet Rocket – A Faithful Perennial

Every spring someone is sure to ask me, “How do you make your phlox bloom so early?” Then I have to explain that the graceful plant that brightens a partly shaded corner of my garden is not a phlox, nor even a cousin of that popular perennial, but rather a free-flowering, easily grown perennial which […]

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Brugmansia Angel Trumpet

These beautiful fragrant trumpets, commonly called Angel’s Trumpet open up after dark and remain open until the sunlight hits them the morning. Nowadays, you can already see Christmas trees and lanterns beaming with various decors. In addition to stars, balls, and lights, angels are among the most popular decors. While waiting for your very own […]

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Nasturtium

NASTURTIUM (nas-tur’-shum). The garden name for the genus Tropaeolum, which includes climbing and dwarf herbs from South America with showy red, orange or yellow, funnel-shaped flowers consisting of 5 separate petals, the sepals produced into a long spur containing nectar. Tropaeolum majus, the species most widely grown, is an annual with fleshy stems, shield-shaped leaves, […]

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