Bleeding heart... a sweet, romantic, old-fashioned flower. For many gardeners, this may have been one of the first flowers that they learned the botanical name for. Dicentra spectabilis. An …
Loudon’s Rules of Horticulture
Before I become too engrossed in spring gardening activities, (if it is possible to become too engrossed in gardening, and I don't think it is) may I present one more treasure that I brought up from …
Loudon’s Rules of Horticulture, Rule No. 7
And I quote from Garden-Making: Suggestions for the Utilization of Home Grounds by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1898), “Persons who follow the entertaining writings of Mr. A. B. Tarryer (a pseudonym for a …
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No Time for Rabbit Holes
This is not the time, place, or season for rabbit holes, for diving deep into old, often long forgotten, gardening books from a century ago. It is not. The days are getting longer and warmer, and …
Ants
When I think of spring's arrival, I like to think of crocuses, sounding the all clear to alert the other flowers in my garden that it is time to come out and bloom. "The weather is fine, come out and …
Our Insect Friends and Foes
I recently purchased a new-to-me book on entomology, "Our Insect Friends and Foes" by William Atherton DuPuy (The John C. Winston Company, 1925). It is part of a Romance of Science series of …
