SUMMER GLORY

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 215, 30 November 1927, Page 15

SUMMER GLORY

flowers for albert park NEW COLOUR DESIGNS No sooner has spring’s beauty fled than busy gardeners are preparing for the glory that will be summer. IQ Albert Park the change is noticeable to-day. Mr. G. Philmore has Planned his colour designs of flower Pictures which will soon be a delight. Here are the plants which will transt°rm the Prince’s Street border into a sea of colour: Begonias, 2,000. Geraniums (varigated), 1,000. Althernanthera, 8,000: half of red j an d half of yellow. These plants will make the borders j a foreground for the large clumps i roses and lilies, forget-me-nots and carnations, delphiniums and other flowers for which the park is famous. The anemones have been taken up. The cinerarias, their colours now jaded, will be replaced next week by dahlias. Where the last of the ranunculi now drop their petals zinnias will J ave their brilliant gold and crimson heads. Everywhere in Albert Park there is jho promise of a flowery summer. " e ds of pansies are showing their and beautiful faces. Our old jriend the snapdragon Alls two beds hoar the Grey Statue and makes them 0,, k like clouds of pink. Round the obtain the stocks still scent the air the perfumes of Araby. Everyr re else the roses are coming into hfcir own and the snow-white lilies dot border in perfumed bunches, heir whiteness exaggerated by the due of lobelia along the borders. In the Domain there is the same activity among the flower beds. Summer Planting will begin there in earshortly.