SPRING’S PROMISE
PLANTING IN THE PARKS BUSY TIME FOR GARDENERS Auckland will have nothing more lovely to offer this spring than the flowers in Albert Park. Busy gardeners are already planting out their bulbs and plants which will later transform the tree-dotted area Into a gian* rainbow. Circling the fountain will be two beds each of anemones and rununcuii, each bed containing 1,000 bulbs. Their glowing colours can be left to the imagination. Two beds of cinerarias have already been planted and protected from the weather. Last year's lovely show will be repeated this spring. A bed containing 400 stock plants of various colours has been planted near the main walk through the park, and two beds of cyclamen are already in full bloom. Some thousands of violas of shades will line the herbaceous borders. It has been decided to use 1,500 of each of throe colours. As soon as the autunm growth has been cleared away the principal borders will be planted with summer flowers. Planting on a large scale is going on in the Domain, where the flower beds will soon become conventional designs of massed colour.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 388, 23 June 1928, Page 5
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189SPRING’S PROMISE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 388, 23 June 1928, Page 5
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