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.
This is one of the very firstof flowers to bloom, being in advance of the Snowdrop. In the bleakest days of winter this little flower covers the ground with its gilt spangles. Plant in early autumn. A...
A stove deciduous shrub which thrives best in amixture of loam and peat. Cuttings in sand will strike if placed under glass and in heat. It flowers in April. Height, 10 ft.
Sow in prepared places, during spring, in sluggishbrooks and moist situations; or it may be grown on a shady border if kept moist by frequent waterings. It may also be grown in a frame in September fr...
Class and Order. Octandria Monogynia. Generic Character. Cal. 4-phyllus. Cor. 4-fida. Filamenta receptaculo inferta. Antheræ bifidæ. Caps. 4-locularis. Specific Character and Synonyms. ERI...
These favourite hardy perennials prefera rich, light, sandy soil, and a dry situation. The seed may be sown where it is intended for them to bloom either in autumn or spring. Thin out to 2 ft. apart....
The Nuts for raising young trees may be planted at any timebetween October and the end of February, 3 in. deep and 1-1/2 ft. apart. Train to a single stem 8 to 10 ft. high, removing all the side branc...
To destroy Wasps rinse a large bottle with spirits ofturpentine, and thrust the neck into the principal entrance to their nest, stopping up all the other holes to prevent their escape. In a few days t...
Free-flowering, hardy, deciduous shrubs, the flowers beingproduced in profusion along the shoots in April, and varying in colour from white to deep crimson. The plants will grow in any soil, and requi...
A hardy annual, needing no special treatment. It may besown in autumn, and protected during winter in a frame, or it may be raised in spring in the open ground, where it will bloom in June. Height, 2...