Flower Plots

Northern Advocate, 2 December 1939, Page 10

Flower Plots

Continue to plant out seedlings for an autumn show o£ bloom. Seed of many autumn, flowering annuals may still be sown. An old wisteria plant will be growing well now. The growths should be trained where they are wanted to go. Some of the weaker growths may be cut out, and long growths cut back. Plant dahlias and chrysanthemums in beds of good rich soil. Pansies will last in bloom much longer, and give larger blooms, if the latter are kept picked as they fade, and if weak liquid manure is given once a week.

If you wish to be up-to-date in your garden, you will plant tritomas, better known as “red-hot pokers,” also summer and winter flowering varieties. The tritomas are in both tall and dwarf varieties, and in red and yellow shades. Another flower that has come into favour is the Watsonia. The colours may be chosen now, while they are flowering. Hippeastrums, better known as amaryllis, are in blobm. Wet winters do not appear to trouble these bulbs. The small bulbs may be removed from the parents now. Daffodils, hyacinths, tulips and other spring flowering bulbs may be lifted when the foliage turns yellow.