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Curved Flower Beds: The straight edge of a hard surface can also be used in conjunction with curved flower beds and lawns within one design. The overall effect will be one of contrast: straight and curved lines, and squares and circles.
Paths should be used sensitively and for a reason. A path leading nowhere will not integrate with the rest of the garden. Use curved paths in an informal design and straight ones in a formal scheme. Rather than using a path to split the garden into two equal sections, consider running it along the shadier side of the garden instead.
The grass has had no lime, fertilizer, weed control measures or treatment for pests or diseases. Neither has it been watered, but because it is lo¬cated in a low-lying area this is not serious. Except hi the severest droughts the soil is reasonably moist beneath.
The interesting thing is that after a quarter of a century the outlines of the flower beds are clearly discernible. With¬in the beds the grasses are practically all.
Kentucky Blue and other desirable kinds, except for odd places where sod has been kicked up by ball players or others or has been disturbed by a badly handled mow¬ing machine, or in other ways, and crab grass has invaded. This survival of desir¬able grasses would not be so surprising were it not for the fact that between the beds (and the between the beds area is far more extensive than that of the beds) there is practically nothing but crab grass; it is almost a pure stand.seriously injured.
The reason the turf in the beds is thick enough to repel crab grass through all these years is simple. The soil there was origi¬nally spaded and generously nourished.See Also White Flower:N. 'Flower Drift'; H: 14"; M; (4); Double white flower with small tufts of orange between the petals.
N. 'Minnow'; H: 7"; M; (8); Miniature with white petals and a yellow cup.
N. 'Salome'; H: 18"; M/L; (2); White petals with a coral-pink cup.
N. 'Hawera'; H: 8"; M/L; (5); Three to five lemon-yellow flowers on each stem.
N. 'Cheerfulness'; H: 15"; L; (4); White with a creamy yellow center.
Also for late July into August a pot containing one blooming lily-of-the-Nile (Agapanthus africanus 'Albus') should be moved about for the best effect. This plant is only hardy above Zone 8 and should spend winters in a greenhouse or a cool north window.
Among the annuals used for the moonlight garden are white gera¬niums (Pelaragonium x hortorum), white petunias (Petunia x hybrida), white nicotiana (Nicotiana data 'Grandiflora'), white cosmos (Cosmos tipinnatus 'Purity'), white spider flower (Cleome Hasslerana 'Alba' or 'Snow Queen'), and for a final round of color under a Harvest Moon, some white bedding mums (Chrysanthemum x morifolium).
On The Other Hand See Plants And Flower:Propagation and growing: sow seed in late spring, in well-drained, rich soil. If seed is not required, remove the flower stems as they appear. Self-sown seedlings will grow freely if the plants and flower are allowed to flower; if not, propagate them by dividing the parent plants and flower approximately every three years or so. The seeds are ready to harvest when they have turned a gray-green color and have hardened. Cut off the whole flower head and dry slowly indoors.
Paper moons (Scabiosa stellata 'Drumstick') are a new garden flower cultivar. When the plants and flower are in bloom they look like a rather washed-out scabiosa (the pin-cushion flower), in an unattractive shade of blue. But they soon ripen into bronze-colored, round seed heads that look more like coral fossils than plants and flower. Stems reach 40 inches in length. Space the plants and flower 8 inches apart. They are hardy annuals. |
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