Jenny Rose Carey
Dazzling Plants, Design Ideas, and Proven Techniques for Your Shady Garden
With tips for digging up the tubers and storing them for winter Gardening Quote: ‘If the iris is considered the flower of the rainbow, surely the dahlia might be called the flower of the sunset.’ Louise Bush-Brown, Flowers for Every Garden, Little, Brown, and Company, 1927. Dahlias …
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f you are like me, the active part of the gardening year is so busy that there is little time left at the end of the day to read all the books and magazines that I have on my pile. Consequently, the time for reading is winter, and then reading becomes one of my ultimate gardening pleasures. I …
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Gardening Quote "Let's accept random seeding, let's tolerate small flowers like grace-notes decorating the paving. Not always, but sometimes." Dear Gardening Friends, One of the reasons that I am always drawn to old gardens is that they have a gentle, relaxed, lived-in look. Plants have …
Gardeners have been debating what is meant by the term ‘wild garden’ ever since William Robinson published his influential book titled The Wild Garden in 1870. Maybe gardeners were pondering it before then but Robinson’s book opened the floodgates of dissent. The opposing faction was led …
