FLOWER BEDS AND LAWNS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 4 (Supplement)

FLOWER BEDS AND LAWNS

People make a great mistake in laying down a lawn and then cutting little fancy bods out- of it. This gives them a lot of work keeping the edges trimmed around the beds, which can only be ikmo by going down on the hands and knees, using grass shears, and is a very tedious job. Leave your lawns mibroken, making provision for the flower beds round the borders. If your ground is suitable for a terrace, see that ths lawn goes well up over the edge of the sloiv. about 2ft. before the flower ben is laid out. In planning the shrubbery. it is as well to set aside a portion of the garden solely for this, as one© the shrubs are set and havp become established, they will only require nttntion from time fo time. With shrubs, choose a variety of plants that will giva blooms at different times of the year, also paying attention to the different growth of plants, putting the tallest at the back and so on down to the dwarf varieties for edging. Mark your pl sn with a dot where you intend to plant each variety. ■■ -- riant out your flower beds, so that you will have a succession of blooms throughout the year. To achieve this you will require to have a good knowledge of the various flowers to plant. A visit to the public gardens at regu-' lar intervals will give you a c o °d in " sight as to what to plant to hloom at various seasons of the year, also their colour effect. V