Garden Miscellanea

“MISCELLANEA” sounds so much more professional than “ramblings,” though I do have a tendency toward the latter. With seven decades of gardening behind me, I find I have good tips that don’t always fit into neat categories, yet nonetheless they are worth relating to the readers of Horticulture.

BULBS AND LAWN

I noticed one recent spring that some of my crocus plants were not coming up where I was positive that I had planted them. I could have blamed the marauding squirrels, who have been known to dig up crocus bulbs in the past. But after the crocus-blooming season passed I saw that the plants were actually still alive where I’d put them, albeit in an almost vestigial condition. It didn’t make any sense to me, because plants just three feet away produced large and prolific blooms as well as abundant leaves. The original bulbs were all of good size, healthy and they had been given the