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.
Collect the spore-fronds towards the end of summer,just as the spore-cases begin to open. Place them on a sheet of paper in a box for a few days, keeping it in a dry place. Most of the spores will fal...
Strong-growing, hardy, herbaceous plants.F. Gigantea has bright, glistening foliage, changing to a brilliant orange, and attains a height of 8 ft or 10 ft. F. Tingitana is very stately and graceful, g...
An annual ornamental grass, which is grown best on a loamysoil. Sow the seed in March, and keep moist till it germinates. Height, 1 ft.
Dwarf-growing; excellent forsheep.
Useful for cold, strong soils.
Fine for dry, sandy soils.
Suitable for mountainpastures.
Good permanent grass for rich,moist soil.
This hardy perennial will grow in any soil and ripen itsseed freely. Young plants, obtained by sowing the seed early in spring, are very useful for edgings; when planted alternately with, or in proxim...
A hardy perennial which thrives well whenplanted under the shade of trees. It is increased by separating the tubers in autumn, and produces its flowers in May. Height, 6 in.
See "Fraxinella."Dielytra Spectabilis (Venus's Car, Bleeding Heart, or Lyre