OUR GARDENING CORNER

Taranaki Daily News, 16 April 1932, Page 20 (Supplement)

OUR GARDENING CORNER

(A letter from “Clematis.”) Dear Fellow Gardeners,—l thought that I would write and tell you what I have been doing in my flower garden this last week or so, and that perhaps it would be of some use to one of you. This last week I have been disbudding some of my chrysanthemums. I have disbudded only the ones that I want to have big flowers on, and the" plants that I want to make a big show I have left. The chrysanthemums also want staking as the rough weather seems to have set in in earnest now.

Last week I took up all ray scraggly pansy plants, and divided them up and planted them in a row in the vegetable garden to strike. I -shall plant them' out in the flower garden next month. I have dug up a waste piece of ground by a hedge, and am going to have a pansy bed there. I raised the bed about six inches, and have a punga lying along the edge. The pansies will fall over this and make a nice show. All the spring bulbs should be in by now if early flowering is wanted. Some are shooting up already. Well, good-bye, wishing you all the best of success with your gardens, Yours Sincerely, “Clematis” (Bernice Hunt).

[I hope that next week we shall have ■ some more “garden-letters” for this little corner.—Wendy.]