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Before potting the house plants, enamel the pots and saucers in color to harmonize with the color scheme of the room. A stencil design in contrasting color will add a pleasing decorative touch. The most popular spring house plants in order are Geranium, Boston Fern, Begonia, Coleus, Bulbs, Wandering Jew, Christmas Cactus, Asparagus Vine, Cyclamen, [...]

Then be wise and make a compost heap. It will take care of all your . grass, leaves and trash of all kinds that will decay. In return in due time, you will have the softest, blackest loam for your flower beds. There are lots of trees on our place and the leaves are mounded [...]

Do you save your wood ashes? They contain valuable elements such as potash, phosphoric acid and lime that are beneficial to ‘garden and lawn. Phlox, Delphiniums, Sweet Williams and the dear Peony smile broadly in a lime soil. How To Clean The Garden And Crabgrass? Related Blogs Seed Starter Plus Fertilizer & Crabgrass Killer, 5000 [...]

The two varieties of Petalostemon or Prairie Clover complete our picture. The white (P. candidus) seems to bloom a little earlier, is a bit taller and has a slightly coarser foliage. Both have smooth or nearly smooth leaves and stems and bear their small flowers in tightly packed heads or spikes. The flowers at the [...]

Lead-Plant (Amorpha canescens), whitened with hoary down provides a lovely low-shrubby symphony in gray and purple with its small deep violet flowers crowded in dense clustered woolly terminal spikes. This is ir perennial reproducing by seeds which are contained in the small fuzzy pod which replaces the gay-hued blossoms as time passes. Taller, perhaps to [...]

Members of the Pulse family all-Lead-Plant, Astralagus canescens (the yellow milk vetch) and both purple and white Petalostemon (Prairie Clover) bloomed in lovely mid-summer color harmony on a high south-sloping railroad embankment. Few are the waste grounds in our county. The plow, the mower, the grazing cattle invade nearly every nook and cranny. The railroad [...]

Growing Columbines from a mixture of seed is fun, as one never knows what to expect, as they seldom come true to form or color. The A. clematis was one of these in my garden one year. Foliage of Columbines varies greatly, thus adding one more point to the many charms of this most dependable [...]

In my garden Columbine hybrids grown from my own seed are the ones most eagerly looked forward to for their first bloom. These are named for the mothers of friends; the best-beloved of these is a rich red short-spurred one I named Mary Lacey Foss. It has proved to be one of my most dependables [...]

Rocky Mountain Columbines have the softest blue imaginable, beautiful for a decorative touch in modern living rooms. As cut flowers, Columbines are long-lasting. and do not require the fussing with to avoid wilt which many require, another point in their favor for the busy person. The old-fashioned doubles, which are short-spurred are often especially requested [...]

There are other equally loved Columbines in my garden of choice ones, including A. canadensis, old rose and gold, which, may be naturalized and which loves cool water-splashed rock crevices in some shady woods. One of our plants, however, green in full sun, a huge bush with no room on it for one more blossom, [...]