Planting For Garden Ponds
Not all plants stocked in the pond plant section of your local retailer are even pond plants, some are garden plants that like moist soil and will survive a limited time in the pond but eventually drown. But the Arum lily (Zantedeschia ... [... more]
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Collecting Seeds
Every year many of our garden plants set masses of ripe seed. With the minimum of care, home-saved seed offers an easy method of propagation and an ideal way of raising large numbers of plants, absolutely free! Place seeds in a clean paper bag or ... [... more]
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Columbine
Charming, old-fashioned cottage garden plant with bonnet-shaped flowers, often two-tone and with long graceful spurs. Flowering in early summer, aquilegias fill the seasonal gap between the last of the spring bulbs and the first of the summer ... [... more]
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Common Solomon's Seal
Solomon's seal is an old cottage garden plant that appears early in spring, producing graceful, arching stems with precisely paired, oval leaves along their length. These are quickly joined by dangling, green-tipped, white bells that persist ... [... more]
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Flowering Quince
A tough and very hardy Chinese shrub, popular for early spring colour in almost any situation in the garden. Plants flower best in full sun, but will give satisfaction in partial shade. The growth is vigorous, tending to spread unless pruning ... [... more]
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Raymond Rogers
Ray Rogers has exhibited and won major awards at the Philadelphia Flower Show. A freelancer based in New Jersey, he edited The American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants and The American ... [... more]
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