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.

Selection of Varieties

6 pages in this part of Flowers for Every Garden.

Selection of Varieties

The lists of annuals in the seed catalogues are long and the amateur hardly knows where to begin and where to end. It is usually best to…

Selection of Varieties: California

Ranking close to the Shirley poppies in my affections are the little eschscholtzias or California poppies. They are really my one great…

Selection of Varieties: Sweet

The California poppies are perhaps the hardiest of all annuals, and if a second sowing is made in late June or early July they will bloom…

Selection of Varieties: Ageratum

Ageratum is classed as a half-hardy annual. The seed should be started indoors in March or April, the plants being set out in their…

Selection of Varieties: Browallia

Browallia is a little-known but most worthy annual. The plants reach a height of about eighteen inches and throughout the season are…

Selection of Varieties: African

Marigolds. Among the marigolds we have two nationalities, the French and the African. They are both of extremely easy culture and lavish…

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