THE GARDEN LOVERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21141, 26 March 1932, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE GARDEN LOVERS.

PREPARING FOR SPRING. These are busy days for every garden lover, for tlie time for the planting of bulbs is almost over, and there is much work <0 be dono cleaning up summer's faded flowers and leaving the ground all clean and ready for the first sweet flowers j of spring. I havo spent some very happy hours ! lately planting out all 11 to bulbs arid sow- | ins the seeds so kindly sent for my j "Garden Lovers Corner." Several more little parcels have arrived since 1 last i wrote, and I have to thank the following garden lovers for their very kind donations: —Shirley Sugden, Whenuapai, grape hyacinths and daffodils; Elsie Waring, Manuerewa, grape hyacinths, rose and blue icium; Mavis Armitage, one dozen daffodils; Eric Driver, Clcvcdon, lachenalalia, and blue hyacinths; Marie, Betty and Peter Bailey, one-day lilies, Christmas lilies and whito daffodils; Joanna du Pontct, yellow crocus bulbs; Joan Hill, Kumeu, bilbergia roots; Bathia Luttrell and G.0.W., Avondale. The bulbs (ill the borders of quite a large bed, but I have kept a space in the middle for sowing some seeds that have also been sent. The heavy rain on Tuesday night was just, what was wanted to give the bid lis a good start, and there aro now many little green shoots above ground. Tlieltna Coafes has sent a sprig of pretty clear white berries, and wants to know if ] can tell her the name. They are a variety of coprosma, Thelma. These beautiful berries are of many colours, orange, red, white, blue, and yellow, but the most beautiful of all is the blue, which grows to perfection on Arthur's Pass, in Canterbury, and also in South Wcstland. I shall have great pleasure in going through the entries for our "Joy of a Garden " contest, which closes on Saturday and also in selecting the prize for the winners.