FLOWER GARDEN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 195, 3 September 1937, Page 13

FLOWER GARDEN

Good adviee is essential as good tools or good seed, and tlie gardener who follows the various hints tendered throughout these columns will be backing sure success if tlie information is applied properly. Spring is again here, and "busy week-ends can bo promised to the eager gardener. Lawns cnay be now attended to and the bare patches resown and generally top-dressed. A good application of loamy soil spread over the surface will promote fresh growth, and an evenness during the dry months of the year. Herbaceous plants are now throwing up a new growth, varieties such as chrysanthemums, shasta daisy, perennial phlos, rudbeckias, and golden rod. Those plants that have been growing for three years or so should be lifted and divided, planting the best of newer crowns. Where replanting in the old soil, plenty of manure will be required. For quick displays sowings may be made of a few hardy annuals in open beds or borders. These will soon germinate now the soil is warmer, and early results may be relied upon. For cnassed effects plant phlox driimmondi. Shirly poppies make a fine display when seattered about in clumps. The following are all useful; Mignonette, Virginian sfock, linaria, nemesia, and candytuft. Plants flowering in pots should bo carefully looked after. Old flower stems of primulas should be cut away to allow new stems to appear. Cyclamen in bud may be given liquid manure in weak quantities. Where the fronds of adiatum are turning brown they should be cut ofl? and repotted if necessary. The following plants cnay be bedded out: Stocks, viola, pansy, nemesia, statice, carnations, primula, cyclamen,

everlastmgs, ageratum and alonsoa. The following seed may be sown in boxes: Aster, marigold, all sorts, phlox, koshia, petunia, zinnia, delphinium, Brompton stocks, aquilegia and geum.