JI #1 Base 7 parts sterilized loam 3 parts peat 2 parts sand or grit Fertilizer: 4 oz / 8 gallons (3 grams / liter) Lime or chalk: 3/4 oz / 8 gallons ( 0.5 grams / liter) […]
John Innes Potting Compost
Garden Loam Potting Soil
GARDEN LOAM POTTING SOIL Pass the garden loam through a 1/4 in (0.6 cm) sieve Warm oven to 180 degrees F (82 C) for 10 minutes Place on center rack Place foil over tray and make sure the soil reaches […]
Garden Poems to Enjoy Life
You can submit your garden poems to the webmaster. Prayer in a GardenToday the world seemed cruel, but evening hoursWere filled with perfume from forgotten flowers.I saw again familiar filigreeOf moonlight through my lacy Lilac tree;I heard the robins stirring […]
A Guide to Planting Hollyhocks
There are lots of signs that summer has arrived—children get out of school, otherwise normal men get out of regular clothes and into lime green golf pants, and, in many gardens, the weeds get out of hand. To me summer […]
Double Hollyhocks for Your Perennial Border
All gardeners are familiar with tall single hollyhocks, which can be used so effectively to screen an ugly view or soften the harsh lines of a bare wall. But few realize that the single variety has an even richer, more […]
How to plant Strawberries
Stocks Strawberries are subject to several serious virus diseases, and at one time these threatened to make commercial cultivation quite uneconomic and garden culture most disappointing. However, there has been considerable improvement in the general health of strawberry stocks since […]
Cherry Trees for the Home
Landscape Cherry Trees Two main groups of cherries are cultivated for the merit of their fruit, the `sweet’, dessert (Prunus avium) and the `sour’, culinary (Prunus cerasus); a third group, the ‘Duke’ cherries, form an intermediate class. The sweets are […]
How to Prune Pear Trees – History and How to Grow
Pears The pear grown in Britain is the European Pear which derives from Pyrus communis, native of the temperate parts of Europe and the western part of southern Asia as far as the Himalayas. In America some varieties are grown […]
Botanical Name listing of Plants
Index Common Name listing of Plants Index TEST The alpha listing contain thousands of plants with useful information about your plant of interest. Do you want to learn how to plant a shrub, tree, perennial or a vine? You […]
Rosa ( Yankee Doodle Rose )
‘Yankee Doodle’ is a Hybrid Tea rose which produces large, full, rich yellow and peachy pink flowers with glossy leaves. Borne singly or in clusters. In general, roses are a large group of flowering shrubs, most with showy flowers that […]