First choice for the home garden should be plants that are showy, hardy, need minimum care, and are permanent. Herbaceous peonies meet all four of these requirements. From the moment the crimson spears poke through the soil in early spring until the foliage is cut down by frost in late fall, the peony is lovely; […]
Archives for August 2011
Attention on Alocasias
The demand for indoor house plants – foliage plants as decoration in modern homes seems beyond limit. And the one introduction, among those who supply plants to meet this demand, concerns the alocasias. These handsome natives of the tropics are related to the better known philodendrons, anthuriums, dieffenbachias and aglaonemas or Chinese evergreens. Unique in […]
Tried Oriental Poppies For Brilliance and Color?
Oriental poppies are one of our hardiest and most colorful perennials. Many clumps 20 years old are still giving brilliance to gardens each spring. Unfortunately, though, many gardeners consider them hard to grow because losses have resulted from spring planting or planting pot-grown plants with poor root systems. Lack of good drainage (which is absolutely […]
Plant Fruits This Fall
Fall is a good time to plant fruits. Trees and bushes set out during the autumn months will start growth early the following spring – just as soon as weather conditions are favorable and usually before it is feasible to do any spring planting. Thus, fruits planted in the fall get off to a quicker […]
Adventures with the Species Tulips
Earliest April coaxes out the white, yellow and purple of tulip time’s advance color-bearer – the species tulip Tulipa biflora – with the whole resplendent army of species tulips following close behind. For these native or wild tulips come early and stay late – as we like all our favorite visitors to do. And these […]
Favorite Lilacs at Rochester
In one sense we have no favorite lilacs at Rochester for we grow them all – that is. all ire can get by purchasing, swapping or as grateful recipients of the generosity of introducers of new varieties. Indeed. this has been our policy since the Highland Park collection was started in 1892. The happy result […]
Tips On Planning for Best Color Effect
The crisp days of autumn offer an ideal time for planning and planting the garden. While the successes and failures of the season just past are still fresh in mind, the gardener can correct his mistakes in color combinations and placement of plants, at the same time adding new flowers and improving the over-all garden […]
August Tips and Pointers For Northern Gardeners
August is a lazy month, much more conducive to sitting in the shade of a tree than toiling in the garden. But to reap the fruits of our earlier labors, we must keep pace with the season’s changes and the ever-shifting phases of plant growth. Even in the sizzling heat, the green leaves are working […]
Few Plants Compare To Tree Peonies
My experience with tree peonies began in complete ignorance of the subject. Fascinated by pictures in a nursery catalog from Japan, I purchased seed – and been growing tree peonies ever since. Although literature is full of glowing terms describing the flowers, words alone cannot properly describe their beauty. You have to see tree peonies […]
The Holly Tree – Effective In Landscape As A Specimen
The useful holly makes an ideal hedge and does well in informal groups and as a background for dogwood and other flowering shrubs, but perhaps nowhere is it more effective in landscape work than when planted with plenty of room to grow into a beautiful specimen tree. You will enjoy it a long time, for […]
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