Step #1 Iris flower best if clumps are lifted and divided every four or five years. This is done in July. Step #2 Cut foliage to 8 inches and divide rhizomes to allow two or three fans of leaves to each piece. Step #3 Replant four or five divisions of a kind 6 to 10 […]
Buying And Growing Pansy Plants
It is wise to prepare a pansy bed before the plants arrive so there will be no delay in setting them out. It is good practice to apply enough bonemeal to make the surface quite white before spading or tiling. After setting out the plants, puddle them or give them a good soaking. Follow this […]
How to Grow Pansies From Seed
Pansies, whose rich, intense colors are especially valuable after the yellow of daffodils has passed, have long been grown in baskets, beds and borders. Of easy culture, they are usually treated as biennials with the seed sown in June or July for bloom the following spring. A cold-frame is ideal for propagating them, and except […]
Summer Spotlight on Geraniums
Summary: Summertime puts geraniums in the spotlight! Many different varieties create a blaze of bloom in window boxes, gardens and containers. It is time to add geraniums to your garden collection. Summertime is geranium time! It is the season not only to enjoy geraniums’ full blaze of bloom in window boxes and garden, and to […]
Flower Garden Plans – Planting and Color Planning
Summary: A flower garden made up of only of iris are loved by iris fanciers but to most people prefer a flower garden plan with a combination of iris and other blooming perennials to enhance the beauty of the flower garden. Question: Is it wrong to use a flower garden plan where we only plant […]
Dwarf Iris – Indispensable Garden Members
Summary: Dwarf iris are indispensable in the garden. Hardy, modest care needs, low height and early bloom, make them favored members to fill the gap for plants of dwarf stature. Dwarf iris have an indispensable place in our gardens. Their low height, early bloom, hardiness and modest cultural needs make them favored members of the […]
Butterfly Iris
Summary: The butterfly iris is often tucked away in forgotten corners of many gardens. Given little attention and care, the butterfly iris plant faithfully reward their owners with a short but glorious period of bloom every spring. For decades, the butterfly iris, or spuria, iris has been the neglected member of the iris family. But […]
Chrysanthemums – Time To Get Mums
Now is the time to order some of the colorful mums you expect to carry into the house by the armful this fall. After checking notes and evaluating the merits of some of the newer chrysanthemums, we can’t help going back to the old standbys we know will withstand our changeable winters. Completing transplanting of […]
Perennials I Grow And Enjoy
Summary: Perennial flowering plants in the garden are the wonderful little “exclamation points” in our landscape. In this article I’ll share some of my favorite perennials we like and can depend on that grow in our front yard, backyard and in landscape garden beds. These perennials are top of my list because… I like and […]
Here’s How To Propagate Tree Peonies
Division of tree peonies is so uncertain and so slow that we must resort to grafting – a specialist’s job if ever there was one – to propagate this plant. Japanese gardeners used to graft peonies on roots of the wild species, suffruticosa, but so much trouble arose from the vigorously sprouting habits of these […]
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