This article brought to you by Order Flowers | Flower Delivery ————————————————————————– Cut Flower Gardening For Beautiful Bouquets by Terry Lowery Imagine a never-ending supply of beautiful flowers for your home, bouquets and arrangements to give to friends, flowers to pluck at will for gifts, get-well visits, anniversaries and birthdays. By planting a garden stocked Continue reading →

X Xeranthemum.—These charming everlasting annuals retain, in a dried state, their form and colour for several years. They are of the easiest culture, merely requiring to be sown in spring in light, rich soil to produce flowers in July. Height, 2 ft. Xerophyllum Asphodeloides (Turkey’s Beard).—A showy hardy perennial with tufts of graceful, curving, slender Continue reading →

Narcissus.—See "Daffodils." Nasturtiums.—These are among the most useful of our hardy annuals, producing a display of the brightest of colours throughout the entire summer. The tall-growing climbers make a gay background to a border, and are equally valuable for trellis-work, while the dwarf varieties are first-class bedding plants, and of great service for ribboning. The Continue reading →

Love Is in the Air Craig Thornburrow Love is in the air and so is the aroma of the freshly cut and arranged wedding flowers, unless of course, you plan to use the silk variety. Wedding flowers make the wedding extremely special and set the mood for the ceremony and reception. You have several choices Continue reading →

Quaking Grass.—See "Briza." Quercus Ilex.—A handsome evergreen Oak, delighting in a deep, loamy soil. It is propagated by seed sown as soon as it is ripe. Quinces.—Plant in autumn in a moist but well-drained soil. Cuttings of stout stems 6 or 8 in. long, firmly and deeply planted in a shady situation, mulched with leaf-mould, Continue reading →

Top 5 New Plants for Your Garden ***************************************** Be sure to check out our Ready-To-Grow potted plants, flowers, and gifts. Or send flowers or red roses for every occasion. ***************************************** Spring is coming, and it is time to start thinking about new plants, trees and flowers for your garden. Are you looking to add something Continue reading →

W Wahlenbergia.—The hardy perennial kinds thrive best in pots, the soil in which should be kept moist. The annuals, which are raised on a hotbed in March, may be planted out in May in a warm situation. Waitzia.—Very beautiful half-hardy annuals, but more suitable for the greenhouse than the open flower-bed. They require a sandy Continue reading →