A Little Corner about Gardens

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 30, 29 October 1932, Page 19

A Little Corner about Gardens

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? A SOUTHERN GARDEN. II From “Queen of the Garden’s” c Letter. || "If only 1 was a clever poet U ess I could write a description 9 of our garden. Really its’s beau- || tiful. I will try to tell you a U little of its beauties. X “From the gate a large green lawn sweeps up to the front g door. Down one side of this A lawn is a long bed of roses. This I] is in front of the house, but the q most beautiful nook of all is A on the northern side. II “A small mossy path leads o between rows of gay tulips and ft freeslas to a little green garden seat under the karaka tree. A o smaller path leads off into a |"| fernery where the ferns grow y naturally in raised terraces, c This little place is always cool || and green, even in the middle V of summer. A tall cabbage tree which stands by the fernery is a covered with climbing ivy, while I bright Iceland poppies grow X around Its base. Here and there X grow small brown baronin I bushes which lend a sweet perq fume to the air. But the most A beautiful of all is the long latII tice covered with pale pink 2 Montana clematis. This mass ft of bloom is intertwined with [J the starry white native clematis C and the sombre green passion f| fruit vine. Growing at the foot B of this lattice are big gold and y orange marigolds. || “That is a wee corner of our II garden. I hope you can picture 9 a little of its beauty.”

[What a charming garden, you - make me envy you! I too have the fl beautiful clematis creepers. Have II you seen the new piuk one!] X “I have some early summer II Howers bursting their buds in V my garden. Mother and I have X Ihe gardens between us because II I give her some of my plants, x and she gives me some of hers. a If. 1 put all my gay coloured H Howers in my garden the differ- c ent colours would clash, so the A best thing I could think of was [J to give mother some. In my = garden I have pansies. London A Pride, ice plants, and many |J other pretty flowers. My gar- o ilen is underneath my bedroom || window —my favourite one. |J Next year I am going to try to o make some new flowers out of || some seeds.” J —"Sunshine.” Mastertoil. 9 [Splendid idea I lam glad you II are going to grow flowers from (J seed—-it’s such n fascinating game. o As the garden is beneath your win- A dow, you should raise some sweet s scented flowers. Preesies arc easily a grown from seed, and their delight- I fill perfume will creep into your y room.] C “We are all very busy at II school now working in our gar- a dens. We have had new gar- A dens dug as the others were too clayey. In our garden we have c primroses, Canterbury bells, ft aspirea and antirrhinums,” (J —“Pink May,” aged 11, o Carterton. || [lf your garden is very clayey, y try and get some sand to mix with o the soil. ft makes such a differ- A cnee. Lime also does wonders with I clayey soH.] v