Victorian annuals still popular - I have visited the downtown Georgian Mansion called the Moffatt-Ladd House in Portsmouth, NH many times. What I like about it is that the garden skeleton basically dates back to the Victorian period. Today the gardeners,…
Time to plant tulips - It is October 1 and a gardener's thoughts turn to spring bulbs like tulips. For generations gardeners dug up tulip bulbs only to replant them in the Fall. Rochester, New York seedsman James Vick (1818-1882)…
Victorians reignited tulip interest. Tulips have been popular flowers for the gardens of Europe and America since the seventeenth century. After tulip mania, when the cost of a single tulip might equal the price of a house, tulips became common…
Tulip mania provides garden marketing lesson. The tulip has long been a popular spring flower. Here is an illustration from Boston's W. W. Rawson seed catalog of 1904. [below] A new tulip farm of several acres opened in Rhode Island…
Victorian dahlia 'White Aster' still shines. The online garden business called Old House Gardens works with twenty-one growers in fifteen states to provide it's tubers and bulbs. The Sun Moon Farm in Rindge, New Hampshire supplies some of it's dahlia tubers.…