WINTER ATTENTION TO HERBACEOUS PLANTS
Every year the perennial and herbaceous borders should be thoroughly overhauled, and this duty falls during the months of May and June. However good a border may be, there comes a time when the majority of plants need dividing, or it may be desirable to replace some of them for newer and better species. The stronger growing plants like Michaelmas Daisy become, in time, so large that they are apt to choke their more delicate neighbours. These should be lifted and the best crowns will be found on the outside of the clumps, which should be broken off and replanted. Delphinium crowns may be divided by using a sharp spade or knife and the ground thoroughly limed before replanting. The following list of plants are all worthy of a place in the herbaceous bed: Perennial Phlox, Helenium, Solidago or Golden Rod, Rudbeckia or Golden Glow, Heuchera, Alstromerias. Romnega or Californian Poppy. Stable or fowl is the best manure for this type of plants and should be dug well in before planting.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 329, 14 April 1928, Page 26
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176WINTER ATTENTION TO HERBACEOUS PLANTS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 329, 14 April 1928, Page 26
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