ISBN: 9781458920768

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX An All-the-year Garden AGARDEN of persistent perennials may be so planted that it will result in bloom and color the year round. The plants may be chosen to produce a succession of flowers until late in the winter, and some of the evergreen varieties will put forth shy pansies, violets, or Christmas roses (helleborus), under the shelter of dry shrubbery, when snow lies on the ground. When chosen with the color idea in mind the fruits and bark of certain kinds of shrubbery exhibit distinct shades of red, green, brown, and gray, becoming more attractive as winter turns toward spring. The groups of fruiting shrubs with rose hips, snowberries, bush cranberries, wahoo, hops, or dark berries are pleasing in the gloomiest weather. It is best to begin an all-the-year garden on a small scale, adding desirable plants as they are discovered. If the space is limited, each group of perennials must contribute its share of color. The taller plants should be at the back and those but a few inches high in front. When the plan is arranged the gardener will find it profitable to make out a calendar of the appearance of blossoms; that is, the earliest to appear, and in their turn the others as they are due, so that there may be no period when the beds are without color, from the peeping of the first snowdrops to the appearance of the latest hardy asters or Japanese anemones. As soil, moisture, sunshine, and exposure influence plants, forcing or retarding them, every garden must be planted to meet its own conditions, or the perfect garden of one location may be a failure at another. Borders and beds should also admit the weeder and flower gatherer. It is not well to have too wide a bed, as that necessitates stepping in among the plants. In the accompanying charts t... Lena May Mccauley, Books, History, The joy of gardens Books>History This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Rand McNally in 1911 in 358 pages; Subjects: Gardens; Architecture / Landscape; Gardening / General; Gardening / Essays; Gardening / Garden Design; Gardening / Landscape; Gardening / Regional / General; Gardening / Techniques; History / General;<

ISBN: 9781458920768

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX An All-the-year Garden AGARDEN of persistent perennials may be so planted that it will result in bloom and color the year round. The plants may be chosen to produce a succession of flowers until late in the winter, and some of the evergreen varieties will put forth shy pansies, violets, or Christmas roses (helleborus), under the shelter of dry shrubbery, when snow lies on the ground. When chosen with the color idea in mind the fruits and bark of certain kinds of shrubbery exhibit distinct shades of red, green, brown, and gray, becoming more attractive as winter turns toward spring. The groups of fruiting shrubs with rose hips, snowberries, bush cranberries, wahoo, hops, or dark berries are pleasing in the gloomiest weather. It is best to begin an all-the-year garden on a small scale, adding desirable plants as they are discovered. If the space is limited, each group of perennials must contribute its share of color. The taller plants should be at the back and those but a few inches high in front. When the plan is arranged the gardener will find it profitable to make out a calendar of the appearance of blossoms; that is, the earliest to appear, and in their turn the others as they are due, so that there may be no period when the beds are without color, from the peeping of the first snowdrops to the appearance of the latest hardy asters or Japanese anemones. As soil, moisture, sunshine, and exposure influence plants, forcing or retarding them, every garden must be planted to meet its own conditions, or the perfect garden of one location may be a failure at another. Borders and beds should also admit the weeder and flower gatherer. It is not well to have too wide a bed, as that necessitates stepping in among the plants. In the accompanying charts t... Lena May Mccauley, Books, History, The joy of gardens Books>History, General Books LLC<