A Garden with House Attached

To begin with the hardy perennials--which, to be effective, should be in a border of their own. At the outset, this should be made free of stones, then mellow the earth as far d...

Apart from that æsthetic satisfaction which house plants afford, the principle of growth, which they exemplify, has its own strong and almost universal attraction. Thus it is th...

The Rose is no mushroom Queen. Her ancestry dates away back to the Garden of Eden, and if Eve did not there gather a rosebud _boutonniere_ for Adam, it was because that primitiv...

The poorest of us have our "castles in Spain." Why not have our _gardens_? Such a garden I have "in my mind's eye," but before I make bold to describe this airy creation (which,...

I find it good to think of plants as mysterious fellow-existences, about which the half is not yet known--to speculate on their psychological properties--on what has been called...

Turning a resolute back on the allurements and temptations of "Prize Collections" I find it safer to pin my hopes to some well-tried seedsman, and selecting in accordance with e...

Meantime, the dear "Lady" (who had anticipated our coming to the Mansion House, by a sudden resolve to commit her burden of housekeeping to younger and abler hands--and retain o...

Hard by the Lover's walk, in an old-time bed, a blue Flower-de-luce, some roots of white and purple Phlox, a bunch or two of "Leaf-for-ever," and another of scented yellow Lilie...

The originator of the "Mansion House" was compelled to obey literally the scripture injunction and "build upon a rock." A substratum of that safe "foundation" lay directly benea...

When, by an unlooked-for sequence of events, I became manager of "The Garden with House Attached" (as an important preliminary) along with "The Third Son"[1] I went over from Ca...

It seems but yesterday that the punctual year brought back her Daffodils--that Hyacinth and Tulip pushed up green shoots for the spring sunshine--and now the Syringa bushes are...

The Salvias, grouped in the perennial border, make a fine color show. Coming when the earlier brightness of the season has passed, their scarlet clumps last from late August to...

As before our advent at the "Mansion House" the man-of-all-work--after a long administration of its out-door affairs in the soft service of an easily-gratified mistress (the dea...

Her provident forbears--intent upon "getting the best" of any burglar bent upon the acquisition of the family silver--had protected many of the first floor windows with prison-l...

April was two weeks old. Already Passion-week had come. Easter-time would soon begin. Crocuses dotted the short new grass on the lawn. Mated robins chose nesting places in the o...