From the category archives:

Landscaping Plants

Roses - Continued

May 19, 2007

Space hybrid teas about 18 inches apart in any direction. Prune the branches 6 to 10 inches from the soil. To grow good roses it is necessary to cultivate, to prune and to spray. If you have a well-cultivated bed you need not worry about watering. But if you start to water in hot weather, [...]

{ Comments on this entry are closed }

Roses

May 18, 2007

If you enjoy roses, you can use them functionally as well as decoratively around your grounds as creepers, shrubs, vines, climbers, hedges or just as beds of pure color. Rose originators are enthusiastic and tireless, and every year new favorites appear. Most recently the headliners were the bright floribunda rose, Jiminy Cricket; the soft, pure-pink [...]

{ Comments on this entry are closed }

Grasses and Vines

March 20, 2007

For deep or light shade, there are evergreen vines such as the Baltic ivy and pachysandra, periwinkle with its blue-and-white spring flowers, and plumbago which has brilliant blue flowers in the fall. English ivy is good for the shady north side of buildings. For soil too sandy for shrubs there is Scotch broom, which bears [...]

{ Comments on this entry are closed }