such as Eileen Powell's excellent book: The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Flowers from Seed to Bloom. This book describes more than 500 different types of flowers and how to grow them. In addition, you'll find important information about germination requirements...
Your primulas, have they gone by and are you now collecting seed from them… Ken: No, they’re still blooming. These are the first set that bloom, which are the Japanese primula. They’ll make a whorl of flowers, if you can picture an umbel kind of thing. Then they shoot up a ...
The poppy flowers that are familiar to most people have tissue paper-like crinkled blossoms with 4 to 6 brightly-colored petals and a ring of stamens in the center. Their drooping pods and delicate foliage add extra interest to the flower bed from mid-spring through summer. Available in bot...
Q. It always gets everyone agitated because they are the opium poppy (or breadseed poppy). I think they’re wonderful, and especially love the pods. Even if they didn’t have a beautiful flower, I love the dried pod. It’s so preposterous that nature created that pod. [Laughter.] A....
You can make this flowering plant grow faster by ensuring it gets sunshine at least 6 hours a day. Plus, you don’t need to put a lot of fertilizer. Using too much will make the leaves grow, but the flowers will barely bloom.
Q: What flowers should I put in a vegetable garden? Answer: Flowers that should be put in a vegetable garden other than the ones we mentioned above, a few that are good to add are: Calendula California poppy German Chamomile Nasturtium Sweet alyssum Borage Cosmos Zinnia to name a few....
The plump seedpods at the rear serve as an eloquent reminder of their intriguing though fleeting nature. Photo by: Roger Foley.The flowers of oriental poppies cause writers to wax eloquent—“gorgeous,”“vivid,”“shimmering,”“silken.” Starting with the retina-sizzling red-orange of the ...
for the first time. This old-fashioned heirloom not only has large flowers in bright colors that attract bees. The annual poppies also have handsome seed pods, which eventually provide black nutty-tasting seeds for cooking and baking. In fact, I’m drying some pods right now for poppy seeds...
California poppy Globe Gilia Mountain Phlox Blue Flax Russell Lupine Blazing Star Five Spot Evening Primrose Baby Blue Eyes California Bluebell For a list of more wildflowers as well as invasive wildflowers, consult the Web sitewww.wildflowerinformation.org.You may also wish to reference theUSDAWeb...
Birds and squirrels and flowers are not always in season, but philosophy we have always with us. It is a crop which we can grow and reap at all times and in all places and it has its own value and brings its own satisfaction.