Sweet William Dianthus - The Pinks
Not many gardeners know that the pinks (Dianthus, pronounced dye-AN-thus) are among the oldest of the cultivated flowering plants. Reference is made to the clove carnation by Pliny in the first century A.D. Wild forms of Dianthus occur in central and... Read More...
Dahlia Fertilizer and Bulbs in California
Western gardening and especially California gardening is very fascinating and often a little puzzling because there are so many climates present on the Pacific Coast. Here we do not deal with four different seasons as the Eastern and Midwestern... Read More...
Bougainvillea Plant Care
Bougainvillea is one of the most colorful and popular plants for spring and summer color in the landscape. In fact, Bougainvilleas could possibly be the most popular and one of the most widely grown tropical blooming vines. This native to... 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...
Gloriosa Rothchildiana Flower Lily for Summer Color
It has been shown in recent years that gardeners and landscape DIY’rs can grow that interesting and exotic group of tuberous-rooted plants from the old world tropics, the gloriosa lilies, if a raised bed of fertile, loamy, rather sandy, well-drained... Read More...
Planting Caladium Blubs
Fancy-leaved Caladiums, natives of tropical America, have been grown in greenhouses and gardens in the warmer parts of this country for many years. Mid-America has been a bit slow to use them as window plants, and perhaps even slower to recognize their... Read More...
Mail Order Gardening Catalogs More Plants More Color
There is a wide selection of mail order gardening catalogs available online. No matter what kind of gardening and plants do you want to read about? To help you in your search for mail order sources, below are a few mail order and online gardening... Read More...
Growing Gladiolus in New Mexico
How an amateur grower handles gladiolus in an arid climate Years ago I started growing glads in New Mexico. At that time, I had never seen a gladiolus growing, and as far as I know I was the only landscape gardener in the area around here growing them. At... Read More...
How To Succeed with Gladiolus
How many times have you admired a beautiful spike of gladiolus, or an arrangement of glads, and wished that you too could grow similar flowers? It isn’t as difficult as one might imagine. Gladiolus can be grown on any soil that will grow... Read More...
Growing Coleus from Seed
Anyone who has ever tried rooting Coleus blumei from cuttings knows how easy it is to grow them. Many of us got our first house plant - a coleus that way, but did you ever try growing them from seed for a really plentiful supply and to avoid... Read More...
