Independent gardening advice for real gardens, balconies and windowsills.
Practical advice on growing food and flowers, improving soil, and making the most of small spaces. Start anywhere — the garden will meet you.
These trees will grow on any well-drained soil. The DutchMedlar is most prized, as it bears the largest fruit. It is raised from seed, and usually trained to a standard form. The Nottingham and Royal...
Handsome and free-flowering half-hardy annuals. Thegreenhouse varieties thrive in a mixture of loam and peat, and cuttings root easily if planted in sand under glass. The African and tall French varie...
Hardy annuals. Aromatic andsweet flavour. Used for stuffings and as a pot herb; leaves dried for winter use.
Handsome half-hardy, fragrant annuals. The seed should besown on a hotbed in March. When the plants are sufficiently advanced transplant them singly into pots of light, rich earth, and keep them in th...
Half-hardy perennials, which are veryhandsome when in flower, and adorn equally the greenhouse or the open. They may be increased by seed sown in light soil in July or August and planted out in the bo...
Singular plants, which to grow to perfection should beplaced in a mixture of loam, peat, and sand. They require no water while in a dormant state, and may be increased by seed or by off-sets from the...
A favourite hardy annualwhose lilac flowers are fragrant towards evening. They may be grown from seed sown between February and May on any ordinary soil. Height, 1 ft.
A pretty diminutive herbaceous plant. When grown inpeat and sand in an open situation it survives from year to year, but it will not live through the winter in cold clay soils. Its pale green foliage...
This is a half-hardy annual of little interest so far asits flowers are concerned, and is mostly grown as a foliage plant. The seed should be sown in a frame in March, and transplanted at the end of M...
This elegant twining plant is best grown inpots, so that it can more conveniently be taken indoors in the winter. The soil should be light and rich. Cuttings can be taken either in spring or autumn, o...