NEMESIAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 August 1941, Page 3

NEMESIAS

A BRILLIANT ANNUAL. ! i There are few more brilliant annuals than the nemesias. Criticism is on the score that their paucity of foliage gives them rather a bare appearance and their flowering season is frequently disappointingly short. But it is simple to plant them rather more closely than the average run of bedding plants and so avoid gaps in the beds. This close planting, on the other hand, must not be overdone. Room to grow and develop their natural habit plants must have if they are to give of their best. Where the plants flower only for a few weeks and then collapse, the trouble can invariably be traced to one and the same cause. Nemesias are precocious and, if allowed to do so, will frequently bloom while quite small seedlings. This naturally imposes a considerable strain on the plants and they collapse prematurely. It is of the utmost importance to see that they have established a good root hold in their flowering quarters before a single bloom is allowed to develop. Nemesias are not over particular. Any normal gocd garden earth in a reasonable, state of cultivation will suit them admirably. One thing they must have, however, is shushine. Like most other South African annuals, they arc true sun lovers and it is only when the sun is really bright that they give the finest account of themselves.