Flowers for Every Garden

What to order, when to plant it and how to keep it alive: a 1920s gardener's working notes on bulbs, annuals, perennials and roses, down to the fourteen perennials she would not garden without.

About the Book

1926Published
Elsa RehmannAuthor
21Chapters
48Pages on this site

Flowers for Every Garden is a practical border-book from the 1920s, arranged the way a gardener actually works: bulbs first (because the catalogues arrive first), then annuals, perennials and roses.

It is opinionated in the useful way — which varieties to force indoors, how deep to plant, which fourteen perennials earn their room, and what to do about the diseases and insects that come with roses.

This digital edition presents the complete keyed text, chapter by chapter.

This site reproduces the complete text of the original 1926 edition, digitized page by page from the original printing. The book is in the public domain.

Rights & ReuseThe complete text of Flowers for Every Garden (1926) is in the public domain in the United States — like all works published before 1928 — and is free to read, download, quote, teach from, and reuse. This digital edition (its transcription, restored images, and site design) is © 2026 PhotoOpAI, and any editorial commentary we add is clearly marked as ours; the underlying public-domain text carries no such restriction.