Archives for August 2011

Spring Pansies Best From Fall Seed Planting

If you want a real pansy display next spring don’t depend on the basketfuls you’ll find at the local garden center. Grow your own from seed or buy young plants from a specialist this fall. The advantage to you is simply this: you can pick the colors you need to harmonize with your spring garden […]

What Bulbs To Plant For Bloom This Fall

The English names for colchicum are “autumn-crocus” and “meadow-saffron,” which are misnomers, because there are numerous species and varieties of the true crocus which bloom in the fall; and the saffron of commerce is a crocus (Crocus sativus). Although the flowers of colchicum and crocus look alike, they are not closely related, belonging not only […]

Herbs to Enhance Your Cooking A Garden Feature

Today’s homemaker grows herbs in a geometric-patterned garden as modern as her modern kitchen. Like her old-world ancestors she knows the joy of herb-flavored foods and in planting herbs achieves a landscape effect as interesting as her great-grandmother’s knot garden. She segregates rampant varieties in individual plant wells for minimal maintenance; she selects a sunny […]

August Heat Garden Work And The Easy Chair

Torrid Temperatures The heat may have buckled our knees so completely during these torrid days of mid-Summer that our gardening activities more often are contemplated comfortably from the depths of the new lounge chair than carried on with any zest for accomplishment. Waterlilies Welcome It is in just such weather, however, that the pool water […]

Columnea Gloriosa

In a window, where a temperature of 60 or 70 degrees can be maintained and the plant can be lightly shaded from spring until fall, there are few plants that will please you more than Columnea gloriosa. In the first place its small, brownish, velvety leaves make it an intriguing ornament throughout the year and […]

Lathyrus Latifolius – Pink Beauty

It would be difficult to picture any everlasting pea that would be ugly, but it is easy to imagine that some could be lovelier than others, and there are certain situations where flowers of one color would be preferred. This variety albus, grandiflorus albus, The Pearl, etc., in whites, and Pink Beauty, in pleasing pink, […]

The August Home Greenhouse – New Plants Easy From Cuttings

Flowering shrubs are a welcome addition to any greenhouse. They have blooms over a long period of time and foliage that is very attractive after the flowers are gone. Even though you specialize in single plants such as camellias, carnations. African violets, orchids or ornamental foliage plants, a few shrubs grown along with your favorites […]

A Terrace Become A Living Room

When we moved to this southern city two years ago, we looked at many houses, eliminating them all for one reason or another until we found this one. It was untenanted and unkept, the grass knee-high, the shrubbery overgrown, the screen doors sagging open, the awnings faded and torn, water in the basement. Then we […]

Here is Why One Gardener Grows Lilies

Lilies have become so popular that many gardeners are trying varieties which not too long ago would have been seen in few private gardens. Not only are average gardeners planting lilies, but they are finding that the old myth about lilies being difficult to grow is just that – a myth. Today, with chemicals for […]

What Is Your Most Important Landscape Feature? – A Simple Clearing

We’ve always been enthusiastic about our brook. In fact, it was because of its clear rippling water that we bought our property. A sheer delight during the summer, beautiful frozen in winter, our little stream we discovered goes on a rampage each spring and floods over its banks inundating an area 50 feet wide on […]