Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 March 1950 — Page 24

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Landscape Your Yard Before Planting

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Infinite Variety Is Possible

Hardy Types

Annuals get quick results. Per-| : ennials have staying power. Al : well-balanced flower border takes advantage of both. Perennial parade begins ly. It can centinue steadily through, summer but it takes a little doing. g -Peonies ond {ris start off. A Orlental poppies and -delphiniums } and lilies aren't very far behind. $ Then come the graceful columbine| . shasta daisies. The day-lily| could carry on throughout the;

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ishing off. These are just the favorites. They'll blossom almost anywhere. | Most will perform a bit even in! ‘part shade. But they'll all be hap-| pler (and so will you) if you take time to loosen and enrich soil

them. For once set, some of them! stay put for years. Others need chiefly to be thinned out now and] then. And their continuing flower production depends on how well| you treat them.

Others in Running

Some additional = runnersup, many less showy than the top list, include pansies and violas. Use them especially for shade, Sweet willlams, especially the dwarf sort, make a sweet ribbon edging plant. Clove pinks carpet] the ground gray green, and scent the yard with their nippy fragrance, { Hollyhocks were just made to) nod.over a white picket fence. | Coreopsis” holds magic for en-| ‘ticing wild canaries. Plume poppies bring flashing! cardinals to settle on their gray! leaves and nibble seeds. i Golden yarrow, poor soil subject, blossoms long and easily over several midsummer weeks, Anthemis in improved varieties! roduces long lasting yellow! daises.” Ce

really deep down before you plant!

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purposes.

1. Tie it down to your yard with shrubs

and trees, ‘2. Plant for family fun.

First rule of foundation (and yard) viant: ing is, don’t over do it. Unless you and your

house want to live in a jungle.

Plant for family fun whatever your own

special sort may be. Give small play area. Teen-agers and Pops. need more room for active sports.

An outdoor grille suits everybody from And if you're a sun wor-

baby to Grandpa.

“Landscape that new-—or old—home for two

‘shipper, go easy on too many shade trees. It's

your yard-—not the Jones. So plan and plant

it for your enjoyment.

Other pointers that may help—if you're the average city backyarder, avoid elephant sized

trees and shrubs. Small flowering kinds like

dogwoods, crabapples and hawthornes, flow- | ering cherries and magnolias are more in pro-

portion to your needs. They'll provide both

children a and Moms

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Naturaily it's the glad flower, "Everybody Tikes it. It. “arranges remaining floret.

flowers and a bit of shade. Avoid the soon towering evergreens like pine and spruce. Go in rather for the neat, well-behaved yew. uous shrubs, and you'll have variety for both summer and winter,

Mix evergreens and decid-

It's easy to raise. . “well down to the last

In masses it's spectacular.

+ And there are corms available for every type of glad raiser. “If you want.exhibition-sized blossoms, then get the almost

teacup wide bulbs dealers are offering. If you'd rather have more, instead of larger, cut flowers, you'll find your “best buy” in some of the collections. -

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tiply fast so they can be sold at less expensive prices. can choose your collection on the basis of color, as in a “smoky” mixture, those blue-gray hazed kinds that simply take your breath away when they bloom,

Or, you

Glads will grow in Just about any kind of soil, but good corn

ground is their preference. That means fertility. heavy lighten it with some humus or ccinpost or even ashes to break up packing. Mostly you don’t need to worry about lime. do need fertilizer.

If your soil is

But your glads

Give them a high phosphate type if you'd be sure of bloom rather than all tops. A handful to five feet of row is a good dosage.

Like corn, glads need plenty of sun. : Thrips used to cause glad growers much anguish. But the

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Lettuce Trouble?

Lettuce won't head? Raise a sure-heading kind like Great! Lakes, Start it early —right away isn’t too soon. Keep it: popping |along with plant food and water, {so hot weather doesn’t head it off| before it heads. Spinach puny and not much | good anyway? Buy a curly leaved {type for flavor. Then see that soil is rich and well-limed.- An extra dose of nitrogen makes good spinach medicine, : Cauliflower won't head? Look {to lime and plant food, éspecially

H ithe moisture-holding organic mat-

|ter. Then mulch the plants well as soon as they begin to grow. Potatoes scabby and the plants {“no good”? Don't use manure on potato ground just before plant{ing. Get after the blight that makes your plants drop leaves (before they can produce a good crop of spuds. (Copper sprays jearly and often are the answer.) .. * And, of course, the answer to

practically every vegetahls. ure is that soil. Pile on the organic matter—compost, manure, -{woods dirt. See that plant food is balanced. - Chemical fertilizer is the quick solution. Once the soil| pj is right your crops will “grow like weeds.”

City Dwellers Can

Grow Own Fruits

No room for small * fruits? Think again. Ingenious city dwellers raise plenty of straw-

rose bed or driveway. Raspberry bushes can be hedge material as well as fruit producers. Grape vines grow over many a local modernistic « terrace—porch roof fashion, And there's always the space [behind or beside the garage. Dig out poor subsoil or gravel, fill in {with compost mixed with top soil. [Raise crops on a 2-by-4 garden [that will make your neighbors!

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Plant Annuals for Fast Results

For quick resuits, plant annuals. Sow zinnia seed In April.

You've raised a rainbow by July. Many kinds are so easy that the beginner will “have luck. "! Start your. garden career with annuals, Fay want fragrance? There's mignonette, verbenas, nicotiana, For cutting—an endless list. Phlox, ' snapdragons, baby’s breath, annual pinks and bache-| lor's buttons make just a starter. If you've a partly shady yard (they must have a little sun), try snapdragons, forget-me-nots, asters, cynoglossum, balsam, clarkia, pansies, petunias.

Thrive on Poor Soil To neatly ruffie off a flower bed, there's creeping zinnia (san-| vitalia), ageratum (be sure it's dwarf), capdy tuft, California poppies, small marigolds, and 'al- |} jways alyssum in that favorite purple and white combination. | “Soil poor? Then you've the | whole family of amaranths just waiting for ‘you. They actually do better on poor soil, their gay Kljage Rapure when ground isn't

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creasingly popular daisies from Africa, (dimorphotheca) also like it dry and hot.

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jot ve Some unsightly view to shut off—and quick? Consider the castor bean. A seed in spring, a shrub. by summer. Hollyhocks (there’s an annual kind) grow tall. Sunflowers are almost sky touchers. Cosmos, more dainty, makes five to six feet a season. 3

Or maybe your yard is just “so

Then try California poppies. They might almost be’ called Indiana poppies, they like our climate so well. Moss rc roses and those in-

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