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.
Handsome, half-hardy, evergreen shrubs, possessing richglaucous leaves and bunches of tubular flowers. A peat and sandy loam soil suits them best. They may be planted against, and trained to, a south...
Pretty hardy annuals, especially during August, whenthey are in flower. Any rich soil suits them. Easily raised from seed sown on a gentle hotbed in spring, and afterwards transplanted to the border....
A useful window or greenhouse plant, withsmall, oblong, bright green leaves, furnished with appendages that emit an odour resembling the Lemon-scented Verbena. It is of easy cultivation, growing freel...
A greenhouse everlasting tree, commonly known asBlue Gum. It delights in a mixture of peat, loam, and sand. Cuttings, which should not be too ripe, root in sand under glass. It may be grown from seed...
Pretty little hardy annuals, nearly allied to theClarkia. The seed may be sown in autumn for early flowering, or in spring for blooming in July. Height, 1 ft.
A fine, autumn-blooming plant, bearing long spikesof fragrant creamy-white flowers and curiously-spotted stems. It may be grown in any rich soil. Height, 2 ft.
A dwarf evergreen shrub with flowersresembling a white St. John's Wort. It grows best in a compost of loam and peat, and is propagated by cuttings planted in sand, and subjected to heat.
An evergreen shrub which produces white flowers in May,succeeded by round, edible berries. It should be grown in loam and peat. Ripened cuttings may be struck in sand under glass. Height, 4 ft.
A hardy perennial Giant Grass. It is very handsomeas single specimens on lawns, or used in groups on the margins of shrubberies. The flower panicles in their first stage have erect branches, but as th...
A hardy evergreen shrub which, given asunny situation, will grow in any soil, though a rich, sandy one is preferable. It may be increased by layers, by seed, by cuttings of ripe wood taken early in au...
A greenhouse shrub which bears sweet-scentedwhite flowers in August, continuing in bloom for a long while. It may be planted out at the end of May, but must be lifted before the frost comes. When flow...
An elegant class of plants. The stove and greenhousevarieties are generally succulent, and require but little water, while the hardy kinds need plenty of moisture. Any rich, light soil suits them, but...