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.
Sow from February to April for an autumn supply, and in Julyand August for spring cutting. As soon as the plants have made four or five leaves, transplant into soil that has been liberally manured and...
Hardy annuals, remarkable for their awkward-looking stemsand discoloured leaves. They grow best in a mixture of sandy loam, brick rubbish, and decomposed dung, well reduced. They require very little w...
A sandy loam with brick rubbish and a little peat or rottenmanure suits them. Echinopsis is a good plant for cool houses or windows. During the summer it should be syringed over-head with tepid water,...
Favourite hothouse foliage plants, generally grown in peatsoil at a temperature of 70 degrees. They require plenty of light while growing, and to be kept moderately moist at the roots. As the leaves l...
This hardy herbaceous plant hassweetly-fragrant foliage, and bears rose-coloured flowers from May to September. Any loamy soil suits it, and it is easily increased by suckers. Height, 1 ft.
A species of half-hardy climbing plants of great merit.They are elegant when in flower, and will endure the open air. They should be trained to a south wall, or over a vase, or up a pillar. Any light...
Very pretty hardy annuals. They grow well in sunnyplaces in a mixture of loam and peat, and may be raised from seed sown in the spring or by cuttings placed under hand-glasses. Bloom in July. Height,...
Many of the varieties are suitable for the greenhouseonly. They may be grown from seed, but as this is so small it should not be covered; and in watering them it is best to stand the seed-pans in wate...
Very showy hardy annuals. They merelyrequire sowing in the open in autumn for an early display of bloom, or in spring for a later show, but the autumn sowing gives the more satisfaction. Flower during...
Great care should be taken not to allow the sunto strike on the collar of any of the plants from California, as they readily succumb if it does so.
These showy plants, sometimes called Arum, are worthcultivating. They make handsome pot-plants, bearing fine white flowers in the spring. May be grown from seeds, or roots may be divided. They are qui...
A hardy annual which well deserves a place in the gardenborder, both on account of its dwarf and slender habit and also the colour of its flowers. It is satisfied with any ordinary soil. The seed is r...