Chinese Delphinium a Favorite Flower
With its ability to get along with everything in the border, its long flowering season and excellent qualities as a cut flower, I like the Chinese Delphinium as my favorite flower. I plant seed in July, cover with a 1/4 inch of soil (ours is... Read More...
Color in the Shade
A shady bed or border is a delightful place to plan and to plant. More than ferns will thrive in such a spot. For a pleasant surprise and an amazing amount of color try the following plants: fancy-leaved caladiums, sultanas, coleus, and semperflorens... Read More...
Aromatic Hardy Asters
Versatile, floriferous, winter hardy and dependable all describe the dwarf hardy asters. If this perennial is still a stranger in your garden, the reason is probably that you remember the old-fashioned type that grew like a shrub sometimes... Read More...
Veltheimia - Cape Hyacinth
Veltheimia: Many years ago a great gardener from England used to write admiringly of Veltheimia, a South African bulb, listed as cape hyacinth. Here is a bulb, just distinguishable from a hyacinth bulb to the experienced eye by its slightly more pointed... Read More...
Easy Grow Penstemon
Penstemons are easily grown from seed, which may be sown in the open in late fall, or at any time during the winter. Seed beds should be very firm, almost hard; seed of the large seeded kinds should be planted about 1/4 inch deep. Those of the tiny seeded... Read More...
Violet Flower Essentials Coast to Coast
If you can find violets growing wild in the woodlands nearby, you will be able to grow the cultivated violets with great success in your garden. From the cool slopes of northern California eastward to Virginia, you can make the garden violet flower over... Read More...
Rhododendrons for the Midwest Landscape
Springtime visitors to the Northeast and the Pacific Coast are always entranced by the magnificent, flourishing rhododendrons which they often find to be the most impressive feature of the landscape. Gardeners living in the Deep South and places west... Read More...
Primula For All Climates
Nearly every garden, no matter how small, has a spot that receives sun for only an hour or so a day. It may be only a narrow border against the north side of the house or garage; it may be a space beneath a fruit tree; but it can be made a brilliant spot... Read More...
Common Perennial Flowers for the South
Many gardeners in the South have acquired the impression that perennial flowers in general are failures in south. This is in error and is due, perhaps, to our inability to grow just a few of the more important ones. It is true that some perennials... Read More...
Growing Wax Begonias from Seed
One of the greatest wonders to be seen in this wonderful business of growing plants indoors or out is the sprouting of a brown, dead-looking seed. And even more miraculous is the sprouting of seeds so tiny they cannot be discerned from a particle of... Read More...
