Independent gardening advice for real gardens, balconies and windowsills.
Practical guides on soil, composting, watering, seeds, pests and the everyday skills that make a garden thrive.
The bulbous plants are started directly in pots, or in flats and transferred to pots, as described in individual cases in the preceding pages. Cannas, tall Cannas, dwarf flowering Dahlias Caladiums Tu...
Bulbs furnish one of the most satisfactory classes of winter-blooming house plants, especially for city houses and apartments where conditions are not apt to favor the longevity of plants. They may be...
Methods of Burning. Limestone contains the calcium and magnesium that must be the chief source of supply of American soils, though marls, ashes, etc., have their place. The burning of the stone has be...
Personally I am not an enthusiast over cacti. While a cactus in bloom is a marvelous sight, so gorgeous in fact that it is almost unbelievable and unreal, I prefer flowers a little less fervid and mor...
For singularity and grotesqueness of form, as well as for the exceptional conditions under which they grow to the best advantage, no class of plants is more remarkable than the Cactaceae. Of these, ab...
Dear reader, did you ever see a large Camellia plant in full blossom? If you have not, I will risk my reputation by saying that all other flowers within my knowledge, barring the rose, dwindle into in...
Good gardens start below ground. Learn how texture, organic matter, biology and drainage work together to create soil plants love.
Give your season a head start with clean containers, the right light and a gentle transition outdoors.
A practical, low-odour approach to composting that works in backyards, small gardens and even balconies.