Frost are due again soon. We can expect them in September in upper New York State, throughout a great part of New England, in many parts of the Great Lakes states and throughout the northern Great Plains. Generally, the more prolonged the low temperatures of winter, the earlier frost comes. It takes a series of […]
Archives for August 2011
Taming the Landscape With Herbicides
Close to the southern border of Massachusetts, in the foothills of the Berkshires, there is a house whose dining-room window overlooks a broad field which ends in an irregular palisade of white birch trunks against the darkness of a pine forest. Midway is a clump of mountain laurel flanked by tall, red-stemmed blueberries. Other native […]
First Steps In The Southern Fall Gardening Program
Question: This is our first fall growing in the south. Growing down here is a a lot different than in Massachusetts where I grew up. What do we need to plant now for fall and to get ready for spring color? I cannot wait to see the Azaleas in bloom! Nancy, Mobile, Alabama Answer: Nancy, […]
Fall Is Planning Time For Tulip Time
Fall means time for all far-sighted gardeners to plant hardy bulbs for spring beauty. The cheery tulip is a year-in and year-out favorite. There is a place in every garden for some of these colorful flowers, so plan your Tulip Time picture now. Of course you’ll want strong, healthy bulbs for sturdy flowers. Before they […]
Make Your New Lawn Now!
A new or remodeled home deserves a new lawn. There is secret tricks in making a good lawn, all that is necessary is to consider the “lawn” fundamentals. Let’s explore them.
Home Greenhouse An Unusual Location
Selecting a location for a greenhouse that will be both sunny and convenient is often a difficult problem. Sometimes there is just no suitable ground site, but a flat roof or porch deck provides an ideal spot. That’s the way it is frequently worked out in city and suburban areas, where land for gardening is […]
Big Returns from Dwarf fruits
Summary: Even though your property may be small, you can still select fruit trees to suit its size. Did you know that you can select apple trees to suit the size of your home grounds in much the same way you would choose a thoroughbred puppy? With dogs the size at maturity goes according to […]
Garden Miniatures – Small Bulbs With BIG Charm
Not everyone is impressed by large and showy, we all love the small and charming. The hoop-petticoat daffodil an bring one to their knees. The elegant tree peonies are admired but one stops for the tiny blue-and-white-striped tassels of Puschkinia scilloides – and treat them like little jewels. Let’s look at some garden miniatures.
The Landscape Offer – Tulips Like Onions
My uncle told me of the “old days” of landscaping and bulb offers of decades past. He told me how sometime between Columbus Day and Thanksgiving his sister-in-law approached him with a neat little cardboard box in one hand and something that looked like acorns or shelled peanuts in the other. “Look, Ted,” she said, […]
Southern September Gardens Prepare For Spring Beauty
Preparing for spring’s harvest of beauty is the task that will occupy Southern gardeners in September. Bulbs of all kinds should be put in now and iris beds refurbished. Don’t forget to sow seeds of annuals to hide the fading bulb foliage after your narcissus and hyacinths have bloomed next spring. NARCISSUS will bloom in […]
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