The Complete Garden

A landscape architect's working manual of 1921: not how to grow a plant but where to put it — the plant lists, the groupings, the seasons of bloom, and the reasons behind a designed garden.

Insure a Succession of Bloom

5 pages in this part of The Complete Garden.

Insure a Succession of Bloom

with annuals those included in the following group should be sown in two or three successive plantings. Very few annual seeds should be…

Insure a Succession of Bloom: Compact

The types of plants adapted for this purpose are usually selected because of well-defined characteristics such as: a. (a) Long flowering…

Insure a Succession of Bloom: Dwarf

Ageratum "Imperial Dwarf Blue" Dwarf Blue Floss Flower Ageratum "Imperial Dwarf White" Dwarf White Floss Flower Alyssum maritimum Lilac…

Insure a Succession of Bloom: Dusty

Acalypha wilkesiana (in variety) Copper-leaf Centaurea cineraria Dusty Miller Centaurea gymnocarpa Plumose-leaved Dusty Miller…

Insure a Succession of Bloom: Marigold

Low-growing sorts, growing twelve to twenty-four inches: Antirrhinum majus nanum (in variety) Half-dwarf Snapdragon Calendula officinalis…

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