Nasturtium – Popular Flower for Centuries
Every year I grow nasturtiums. They are an easy flower to grow from seed. Just press the seed into the soil. I had no idea that it had been a popular garden flower for hundreds of years. Over that time…
Every year I grow nasturtiums. They are an easy flower to grow from seed. Just press the seed into the soil. I had no idea that it had been a popular garden flower for hundreds of years. Over that time…
The last couple of weeks have provided me with all sorts of feelings. We are selling our New England house after thirty-three years. The land around our house, three quarers of an acre, has been my garden and has taught…
Nineteenth century poet and gardener Celia Thaxter (1835-1894) spent her summers on Appledore Island off the coast of New Hampshire. There in the summer she planted a garden with heirloom Victorian flowers. She records her garden experience in her wonderful…
We know we have come a long way as gardeners here in the US. We do not have the kind of dependence on the English garden that we once had. In 1906 Wilhelm Miller, an American landscape designer from Chicago,…
I couldn’t believe it when I first heard from a worker at a garden center that the petunia was toxic. To me the petunia looks just too beautiful to kill you. That surprise was nothing compared to what I read…