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Chrysanthemums for Cut Flowers
Chrysanthemums are too well known to need much description. For growing out-of-doors giant flower-heads are not desirable, as they are liable to break...
Growing Camelias as Garden Shrubs
Handsome evergreen foliage and abundant flowers make the camellia a valuable garden shrub wherever conditions are suitable. It requires an acid or neu...
Climbing Roses – Rosa
Roses are not, strictly speaking, climbing plants, and have to be tied to their supports, although their thorns help by hooking into the material of t...
Buying Healthy Plants
Houseplants have become so very much a part of our everyday life that they are now available from all sorts of retail outlets, florists’ shops, garden...
Buying Seeds to Grow Flowers
The seed packet is one of the cornerstones of gardening and is the standard method for raising annuals and biennials. You can obtain a much wider rang...
Best Way to Grow Tulips
There are hundreds of types of tulips to choose from, singles, doubles, those with blotched flowers, feathery kinds, striped types and so on. I like t...
How to Grow Anemones
There are four main types of ‘bulbous’ anemones: St Brigid, the French, the Fulgens, and the Dutch. The De Caen differs from the St Brigid in that the...
Tamarix Tamarisk
Tamarix is indigenous in the wastelands of southwest Europe, Mediterranean regions and Asia, and comprises about 90 species, of which only a few are s...
Blue African Lily – AGAPANTHUS
The Blue African Lily, though not quite hardy in exposed districts, is a delightful subject for the midsummer border and does especially well when pla...
