GARDEN WIZARDRY

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1940, Page 9

GARDEN WIZARDRY

SOLDIERS' COMFORT FUNI Nothing but the "magic touch" can ac count for the glorious riot of colour tha I graces the garden of Mr. F. Park® | Devon Street west,_ New Plymouu I When to-morrow's visitors pay admissio fees knowing that the whole of the day proceeds are to go to the soldiers' corr fort fund they will see tulips from Ho! land in all their exotic splendour an rare flowers that flaunt their blazir hues— but they are unlikely to answi the riddle of the gardens— How is | done? r5--| Occupying 1 1-8 ac.res of slopes ar terraces and flat spaces, the garden h, carpets of Livingstone daisies and pr J fusions of tropical flowers and stranj looking orchids in greenhouses and she tered places. Yet there is not a we« anywhere in the hundreds of beds or the rockery crannies. i-M How is it done! There are four or fr greenhouses and one mile of conct| patlis and steps, everyone of them co: structed by Mr. Parker himself in t time left after he has tended hiS>M| trees and flowers, creeping hydrangei and all the gorgeous things such|| primulus, cinerarias, schizanthus. s| The only answer to the riddle wizardry. After supervising the W End school grounds adjoining and doi nursery work Mr. Parker devotes_ only third of his time to his mimejjji botanical garden with its Chilean|| bush, grotesque cacti and novelties J even some large city parks would ett