Poinsettias are not to be denied their important place among the colorful decorations during the holiday season. Their flaming red leaves which surround the small, rather inconspicuous club-shaped flowers, have won popular applause, and have created an important market for the Christmas poinsettia. When properly handled, this plant continues to display its cheery color during the cold, bleak days of January.
Christmas will soon be here and you will be wanting to make up Christmas arrangements and Christmas decorations. It’s so much more fun for most of us if we can go out into our own gardens and gather these materials. There is no reason why every one of us can’t grow them.
Design is a frequently misconstrued word. It can easily be represented as the forming of themes and features into a sound and simplistic whole. Overleaf is a perfect model of a well-designed small garden (Jon and Verna’s garden in the television series) which combined a number of standard principles of good design. Over-complication is the opposite of good design but it is something from which far too many gardens suffer.