THE FLOWER GARDEN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 106, 21 May 1937, Page 8

THE FLOWER GARDEN

With the coming of cold nights the joys of the summer border are soon over, and our thoughts should fly to the aproaching spring with its dainty iiowers and general awakening. Pansy, the most popular of all bedders, may be sown or planted now. There are some wonderful new colours including mahogany, bronze, orange and blue shades weU worthy of a.gardener's cultivation. Sow the seed in boxes and cover. with a sheet- of glass. Prepare holes now for shrubs and ornamental trees which may be shift^d early in June. Cut back the dead. wood on roses and remove all the surplus growths. Manure the beds with bonedust and rake in round the roots, Sow seeds of stock, nemesia, carnation, canterbury bells, gaillardias, poppies, geums, linaria, mignonette, aquiiegia, primula and candytuft. Plant out seedlings of pansy, verbena, early stock, antirrhinum, violas, cinerarias and lobellia. For massing in borders nothing will beat the primula malacoides, a dainty tiowerer carrying masses of lavender fiowers for montbs on end. Plant the last of the daffodils, tulips, hyacinth, ixia and freesia bulbs. These will not llower in early spring, but will commence wlien others have finished, Pink and yellow arum lilies can now be set or planted in pots for verandqh deeoration. Lilium bulbs may be planted in clumps wher© wanted. Established lots in the garden may be lifter and divided and reset imme'diately. Cut back old heads of hydrangea bushes and other shrubs that have finished flowering. - Plant out Japanese iris, in damp sbady eorners. Lil't and divide all herbaceous peraunials, manuring tlie ground before resetting.