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.
Class and Order. Polyandria Polygynia. Generic Character. Cal. 0. Petala circiter 14. Capsulæ plurimæ, ovatæ, polyspermæ. Specific Character and Synonyms. TROLLIUS asiaticus co...
Class and Order. Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Corolla rotata, subinæqualis. Caps. 1-locularis 2-valvis. Specific Character and Synonyms. VERBASCUM myconi foliis lanatis radicalibus,...
Class and Order. Diandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Cor. limbo 4-partito: lacinia infima angustiore. Caps. 2-locularis apice emarginata. Specific Character and Synonyms. VERONICA decussata spicis...
Class and Order. Pentandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Contorta. Folliculi 2 erecti. Semina nuda. Specific Character and Synonyms. VINCA rosea caule fructescente erecto, foliis ovato oblongis, peti...
(Aplectrum spicatum; A. hyemale of Gray)) Orchid family Flowers - Dingy yellowish brown and purplish, about 1 in. long, each on a short pedicel, in a few-flowered, loose, bracted raceme 2 to 4 in. lon...
(Veronica Americana) Figwort family Flowers - Light blue to white, usually striped with deep blue or purple structure of flower similar to that of V. officinalis, but borne in long, loose racemes bran...
(Ilex opaca) Holly family Flowers - Very small, greenish or yellowish white, from 3 to 10 staminate ones in a short cyme; fertile flowers usually solitary, scattered. Stem: A small tree of very slow g...
(Aralia racemosa) Ginseng family Flowers - Greenish white, small, 5-parted, mostly imperfect, in a drooping compound raceme of rounded clusters. Stem: 3 to 6 ft. high, branches spreading. Roots: Large...
(Veratrum viride) Bunch-flower family Flowers - Dingy, pale yellowish or whitish green, growing greener with age, 1 in. or less across, very numerous, in stiff-branching, spike-like, dense-flowered pa...
(Arethusa bulbosa) Orchid family Flowers - 1 to 2 in. long, bright purple pink, solitary, violet scented, rising from between a pair of small scales at end of smooth scape from 5 to 10 in. high. Lip d...
(Berberis vulgaris) Barberry family Flowers - Yellow, small, odor disagreeable, 6-parted, borne in drooping, many-flowered racemes from the leaf axils along arching twigs. Stem: A much branched, smoot...
(Septamnium Virginianum; Epifegus Virginiana of Gray) Broom-rape family Flowers - Small, dull purple and white, tawny, or brownish striped; scattered along loose, tiny bracted, ascending branches. Ste...