Independent gardening advice for real gardens, balconies and windowsills.
Balconies, patios and tiny plots: smart container and vertical strategies for growing more in less space.
Best kinds for "roughing" it--Importance of cleanliness--The proper way of watering them. The majority of English women like to see their rooms, and specially their drawing-rooms, adorned with =growin...
Planting--Watering--"Puddling"--Aspect--Shelter--Youth and age in relation to plants--Catalogue defects--A time for everything. Now that we have seen what to plant, it will be advisable to learn =how...
What to go in for, and what to avoid--Brick walls--Trees, their advantages and disadvantages, etc. It is imperative that =a small garden=, such as one generally finds attached to suburban or small hou...
=Mulching=--Term used for applying manure in a thick layer round the roots of shrubs, as a protection from frost. =Pricking off=--Transplanting seedlings into separate pots. ="Eyes"=--Incipient leaf-b...
Graceful arrangement--How to manage thick-skinned stems--Colour-schemes--Bad colours for artificial light--Preserving and resuscitating--Table of flowers in season. The fashion of decorating tables to...
The sweet old columbine--BOCCONIA CORDATA at Hampton Court-- CAMPANULAS as continuous bloomers--The heavenly larkspurs--Christmas roses--The tall and brilliant lobelias--The Chinese-lantern plants--Tu...
Teas--Hybrid perpetuals--Some good climbing varieties--Treatment and soil--Rose hedges--Pillar roses. The reason for the heading given to this chapter is that growing roses for show will not be mentio...
Description of a small yet lovely garden--Colour schemes--The spring dell--A novel way of growing flowers--Variety in flower-gardens. ="Be original!"= is a motto that every amateur gardener should ado...
How to keep a lawn level--Paths, how to lay them--Beds and bedding--The new style versus the old--Flower-borders and their backgrounds--Improvement of the soil. =THE AUTOCRAT OF THE GARDEN.= We have s...