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.
Among our earliest spring flowers. These will grow in anygarden soil, but prefer rich, sandy earth. Plant in October or November, 3 in. deep and 2 in. apart. Take the roots up every second year, and p...
Fine-foliaged hothouse plants. A mixture of peat and sandyloam suits their growth, and they require a good amount of light to properly colour their leaves, with a night temperature of 70 degrees.
Charming greenhouse evergreen shrubs, which sendforth their purple flowers in September. They grow best in loam and peat. Cuttings may be struck in sand under bell-glasses. Height, 3 ft.
A hardy perennial. Sow in August or September ina sheltered spot to stand the winter. The seed may also be sown from March to midsummer, and the plants moved in autumn to the place where they are to b...
A rich, loamy soil is most suitable for their growth. Sowframe varieties in a heat of 75 degrees or 85 degrees during February and March for summer use, and when the plants are of sufficient size tran...
This hardy perennial produces heads ofpretty purple flowers from July to September. It is not particular as to soil, and can easily be increased by division. Height, 1 ft.
Shrubs of a rather pretty description. The stove varietiesrequire a sandy loam to grow in, and may be propagated by cuttings. The annuals should be sown on a gentle hotbed, and when strong enough pott...
Black.--A rich, deep soil and a moist situation, togetherwith partial shade, are most suitable for their growth. They succeed better as bushes than as espaliers or trained to walls. Cuttings of the pr...
See "Ribes."Cyanthus Lobatus--A small, but very beautiful procumbent perennial, well adapted to fill moist places on rock-work if the situation is open and sunny. A mixture of vegetable mould and sand...
Very pretty and free-blooming hardy annuals.Sow the seed in the open in autumn for an early display of flowers, or in March for a later one. Thin out to 2 ft. apart. Bloom in July. Height, 2 ft. to 3...