TENDER PLANTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1938, Page 10

TENDER PLANTS

REQUIRE SUITABLE SHELTER. During the cold, bleak season, newlyplanted shrubs and plants often require a little Shelter, and many losses occur through lack of attention to this little detail. A plant or shrub may be really hardy by nature, but yet may have spent its infancy in a much more sheltered home than your own garden. Many of the most hardy of our garden plants are more or less fender in early life, and a little care and thought is required in counteracting unpropitious elements. There are few gardens so well situated that all protecting material may be dispensed with. Aspect and position differ so widely that no set rules will apply to every garden, but the exposed one naturally needs the most shelter. Temporary shelters should be given the newly-planted shrubs, and even box plants will' get away quicker if a few twiggy evergreen pieces are thrust into the soil around them. Permanent breakwinds should be erected, something tall in the background, with a front row of something that will keep thick at ground level, as it is at ground level that the cold wind's must be kept out. Lonicera nitida is as good as anything for this purpose, and is a quick grower, too. Rough winds loosen shrubs and plants recently set in. Large specimens should always be staked and smaller ones protected, as new roots are long in developing under wobbly conditions.