GAY GARDENS.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19462, 29 December 1934, Page 13 (Supplement)

GAY GARDENS.

Have you seen the fairies, dancing on the lawn? Or heard the bluebells ringing, Or seen at peep of dawn The wee buds popping open, And blossoms on the thorn? For lovely Summer’s coming Brings revels every night, If you peep out very carefully Sometime perhaps you might! THINGS I SEE This week there are beautiful cannas glowing everywhere. There are some wonderful colours among them, deep golds and oranges, and they make the garden look so bright. * * * The sweet peas are still blooming in Peter’s garden, but the very best ones are nearly over. There are still some pale pink ones blooming near a clump of blue delphiniums, and they look beautiful. *-m*«• * . - * Roses are blooming on some bushes Peter sees, but there are not many of them left either now. The dear little pink buttonhole ones were beautiful while they lasted. **-* * * • There Is a bright scarlet plot in one garden Peter sees, and it Is full of beautiful African daisies or gerberas. They love the sunlight and seem to become even more vivid as the summer goes on.

A BLIND MAN’S GARDEN

Here is a story of a blind man who has helped to bring beauty to the world although he cannot see it. This little extract from an English Children’s Newspaper will interest our own garden lovers.

A new exhibitor of flowers 'has been winning trophies and prizes at every show and exhibition in East Glamorgan throughout the summer. • . Exhibitors who had not been beaten since the war found the newcomer their-better, and they admitted it. His flowers were larger; their colours more arresting. His roses were unrivalled and his dahlias a. riot of colour. He is Mr Horace Jackson, of Caerphilly,, and he is blind. ' He feels the flowers, and as he walks along the rows he nips off buds that are not wanted. His wife ar\i four children do the rough work, but he produces the colours for others to admire.

WHAT me:

:bers say.

Pixie, Raglan, .says:—We are badly In need or rain at present. Our poor garden is awfully dry now and big cracks are beginning to appear everywhere. Our plums are looking rosy and red, and they are delicious to eat. The apples, however, are still too green to eat, but they are fairly big. We have a big orchard and also many fruit trees growing In It. Whistler says:—l would like to teil you about my garden. It has in It one snapdragon, one phlox Drummondi, one French marigold, three African marigolds, and several, asters. My snapdragon Is pink

and out In bloom, and my phlox Is red and also blooming. I have a small slip Of a yellow snapdragon but I am not quite sure whether It -will grow yet, or not. My sister also has a garden. Won’t my garden look pretty when everything Is blooming? Mother has candytuft along the front of the house and all down one side. It Is now a mass of purple bloom with white blooms showing in some places. For a border along another bed (it has potatoes In It at present but will y soon he a lawn) she planted a long row ' or phlox drummondi, while at the back of that is a row of asters equally as long.