Writing in Horticulture magazine, our good friend Marty Ross of zone-6a Kansas City, MO, tells of planting hyacinths “here and there in groups of three or five, almost like wildflowers. The soft pink ‘Lady Derby’, which has been around since 1875, is one of the prettiest, and it ...
Rose went to live for a year with her aunt Eliza Jane, Almanzo's sister, to finish school. She graduated at the top of her class. She moved to Kansas City to work. There she met and married Gillette Lane, a newspaper reporter. ...