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.

Various Types of Soil Conditions

5 pages in this part of The Complete Garden.

Various Types of Soil Conditions

made to be sure that the artificial bog garden can have moist soil conditions which will be congenial to the plants in this location. Peat…

Various Types of Soil Conditions: White

Acer rubrum Red Maple Alnus glutinosa Black Alder Alnus incana Speckled Alder Alnus rugosa serrulata Smooth Alder Aronia arbutifolia Red…

Various Types of Soil Conditions: Mountain

Kalmia angustifolia Sheep Laurel Kalmia latifolia Mountain Laurel Ledum groenlandicum Labrador Tea Pachistima canbyi Canby's Mountain Lover…

Various Types of Soil Conditions: Silver

Actinidia (in variety) Silver Vine Ampelopsis quinquefolia Virginia Creeper Celastrus (in variety) Bitter-sweet Tamarix (in variety)…

Various Types of Soil Conditions: Abies

Abies balsamea Balsam Fir Abies brachyphylla Nikko Fir Abies veitchi Veitch's Silver Fir Acer rubrum Red Maple Acer saccharum Sugar Maple…

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