Independent gardening advice for real gardens, balconies and windowsills.
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These slender, rapid-growing climbers are extremelypretty when in bloom during June, but they are only half-hardy; they therefore need greenhouse care, or to be planted in a warm situation. They flour...
Hardy perennial. For flavouring vinegar; also used insalads, soups, and pickles.
Ornamental evergreen shrubs of a twining nature, needing agreenhouse for their cultivation. They require a rich, loamy soil mixed with a little sand, or loam and peat, and rejoice in shade and moistur...
Very decorative conifers, mostly of conicalshape, and indispensable to the shrubbery. They thrive in any soil, but prefer a moist situation. For sheltered positions, where a small dome-shaped bush is...
A hardy and very ornamental perennial with roundbronzy foliage and spikes of white flowers at midsummer. It succeeds best in peat, but will grow in any rich, light soil. To increase it, divide the roo...
These must be sown on a hotbed, or in rather stronger heatthan is necessary for half-hardy descriptions. As soon as they are large enough to be shifted, prick them off into small pots, gradually potti...
Pretty greenhouse evergreen shrubs which producepink flowers in July. They flourish in a soil consisting of equal proportions of loam, peat, and sand. Cuttings of the young wood planted under glass in...
Hardy Fern-like perennials, suitable for the backs ofborders. They grow well in any light soil from seed sown in spring or autumn, and may also be increased by division. Thermopsis Montana(Fabacea).--...
This hardy herbaceous plant will grow in anyordinary garden soil. It flowers in July, and is easily raised from seed or increased by division. Height, 1-1/2 ft.
This is a very beautifulvariety of the Polyanthus Narcissus, and is grown to bloom at the advent of the Chinese New Year. It is very fragrant and free blooming, and is generally flowered in an ornamen...
A fine climbing plant with handsome foliage and anabundance of fine yellow flowers. Quite hardy. Sow on a hotbed early in spring, and when sufficiently large and strong, pot off, place in a cold frame...