Practical Flower Gardening

A trained horticulturist’s working handbook: what to plant, how to prepare the ground, and how to keep a flower garden going through the year without pretending it is effortless.

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upon by various chemicals and is deposited at night on the surface of the ground. These so-called castings of earth worms are rich in organic matter and do their bit to add fertility to the soil. Darwin claimed that 50,000 earth worms in one acre of ground will bring to the surface from 10 to 18 tons of earth in one year. It is a well-known fact that butterflies and bees help to pollinate by carrying pollen from plant to plant.

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