Articles & Guides By Keith Markensen
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The Trail Of Wildlings
On a Sunday in July about 2:30 I started for a walk to Trevorton Mountains for some huckleberries. This mountain is loaded with the early blue, the high blue, and a black huckleberry.
Landscape Color In The Garden
The bulbs we plant in fall are uninteresting looking objects, but they hold beneath their dull exterior the promise of great beauty next spring. Tulips are probably the most popular and widely used of all bulbs. A better understanding of the kinds of tulips available and their particular place in the landscape will give the home gardener a longer succession of bloom and an opportunity to plan for better arrangement of size and color.
Planting Roses And Perennials
This is an interesting month for gardeners everywhere but particularly so for gardeners here. October is one of the best planting months of the entire year.
Growing Wildflowers From Seed
The term “wildflower” has a wide interpretation of meanings. When we speak of wildflowers, we usually mean those plants having noteworthy bloom which are native to certain localities. But many of these have been so long acclimated to garden cultivation that we no longer regard them as wildflowers, but as cultivated plants. Then, too, there are those escapes from gardens which have run wild and are so classed. But generally speaking we do mean the native flowers in certain localities which have long had their home in the wild state. The question usually is; how to get them to grow for us in our gardens at home. We see them growing in our National Parks, or along the seashore – near a lake or marsh, perhaps in the desert or on the plains.
Outdoor Landscape Goes Wireless
Nothing has a more stimulating effect on the indoor gardening mood than a supply of good soil all ready for use. Seeds which should be sown and plants in need of potting are less likely to be neglected when suitable soil is at hand. A good greenhouse gardener ought to have in store a generous supply of loose well-aerated soil which will remain light and friable all through the winter.
Planting The Rock Garden – Try Arabis
Rock gardening is gaining each year in popularity, at least here in the Northeast. If you have not tried one, plan to do so, especially if part of your property is sloping. Many wild flowers, which have of recent years been offered by nurserymen and seedmen, have adapted themselves readily to the rock garden, for it is on rocky hillsides or mountains that some botanists first discovered them.
Select Fertilizer According The Soil And Plant Needs
Despite the fact that they grow to great lengths and cover large areas, the majority of vines in soil of average fertility do not need especially frequent or heavy applications of fertilizer.
Perennials – When To Plant, Divide And Recover Them
Since at this time of the year we are especially concerned with fall planting and dividing, the principal perennials which are best handled at this time may be enumerated as follows: Anemone sylvestris (snowdrop anemone), Brunnera macrophylla (Anchusa myosotidiflora), Caltha palustris flore pleno (double-flowered marsh marigold), Convallaria majalis (lily-of-the-valley), epimedium (barren-wort), helleborus (Christmas rose), Lathyrus vernus (spring vetchling), Nepeta mussini and N. grandiflora, and paeonia (peony). To these one should also add adonis (pheasant’s eye), ere-murus (desert candle), Mertensia virginica (Virginia bluebells) and Papaver orientale (Oriental poppy). These latter plants are completely at rest by the end of summer, and August-September is the only safe period to transplant and divide them.
Get Rid Of Crabgrass By Using Pre-Emergence Weed Killer
Early May is the time up north to divide overgrown clumps of daylilies, Shasta daisies, garden chrysanthemums, hardy perennial asters, perennial phlox, physostegia, plantain lilies (funkia), lythrum, garden heliotrope and speedwell (veronica).
How To Divide Perennials
Early May is the time up north to divide overgrown clumps of daylilies, Shasta daisies, garden chrysanthemums, hardy perennial asters, perennial phlox, physostegia, plantain lilies (funkia), lythrum, garden heliotrope and speedwell (veronica).
