Professional Gardening Tips
Windsor Pumpkin Festival – October 5, 1996 – NEWS RELEASE – GIANT PUMPKIN GROWERS SET FOR 12TH ANNUAL WINDSOR PUMPKIN FESTIVAL WINDSOR – A Giant pumpkin growers from the Atlantic Provinces, and perhaps a few from outside the […]
GREAT PUMPKIN COMMONWEALTH GROWS TO OVER 20 SITES FOR 1996 WEIGHOFF TO BE HELD ON OCTOBER 5 By Danny Dill Growth of the Great Pumpkin Commonwealth seems to be keeping pace with the giant vegetables its competitors are producing. In […]
GROWER’S LIST OF 700+ ATLANTIC GIANT PUMPKINS DEC-1995 DEAR FELLOW GROWERS In 1992 I started keeping lists of large ATLANTIC GIANT PUMPKINS. The intent was to show major growers where their prize pumpkins ranked free of the claims among the […]
20 plants to use around this simple water garden design. 1. Myosotis scorpioides, forget-me-not 2. Astilbe Peach Blossom 3. Vinca minor-underplanting azaleas 4. Lobelia cardinalis, cardinal-flower 5. Hernerocallis Hyperion (day-lily) 6. Aruncus sylvester, goats-beard 7. Caladium, bicolor hybrids 8. Iris […]
Listing of Alpine Plants and how to use:: THEME TROUGHS A great source of pleasure to me, is to design and plant out “Theme” troughs. There are many hundreds of theme ideas if you use your imagination.What about: Plants […]
Where to use a tree TREES OF RAPID GROWTH DECIDUOUS Magnolia grandiflora (South) Magnolia Populus alba Bolleana (Narrow Street) White Poplar Populus nigra italica (Narrow Street) Lombardy Poplar Platanus acerifolia London Plane Tree Quercus borealis (Q. rubra) Red Oak […]
TREES FOR THE SMALL PLACE* HEIGHT SPREAD Acer campestre 30 to 40 ft 40 to 50 ft English Maple, HedgeMaple Betula alba (B. pendula) 50 to 60 ft. 25 to 30 ft. […]
TREES WHICH WILL FORM GOOD WINDBREAKS DECIDUOUS Acer Ginnala Amur Maple Acer Negundo Box Elder Cratxgus mollis Downy Hawthorn Maclura pornifera Osage Orange Morus alba White Mulberry Populus alba White Poplar Populus balsamifera Balsam Poplar Quercus palustris […]
TREES WHICH THRIVE IN VERY WET SOIL DECIDUOUS Acer dasycarpurn. — Silver Maple — Acer Negundo — Box Elder — Acer rubrurn. — Red Maple — Alnus glutinosa — European Alder — Betula lutea — Yellow Birch — Betula nigra […]
TREES FOR DRY, SANDY SOIL* Acer campestre — Hedge Maple Acer Ginnala — Amur Maple Acer Negundo — Box Elder Acer tataricum — Tatarian Maple Ailanthus glandulosa — Tree of Heaven Betula alba — European White Birch Betula Maximowicziana — […]