Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1915-07-02
GROWING P%ERENNIALS
BY BESSIE /.

For those who have not much time
to devote to the garden, there is no
class of Towering plants more desira-
BILE than the hardy perennials and
herbaceous plants like the peony.
These plants require but little atten-
ition.
One does not have to acquire a lib
eral horticultural education in order
to know how to take care of them.
Most of US will do well to consider
the merits of this class of plants, leav-
ing the ANIMALS to those who are here
this season and somewhere else next
year
Not that we would advise neg
lecting ANIMALS wholly, however, l do
NJ want to be understood as meaning
that, but simply that a collection of
hardy plants will be found so much
more satisfactory, all things consid-
cred, under the conditions of which
l have spoken, that their cultivation is
to be urged in preference to that of
the other class mentioned, which is
not satisfactory unless a good deal
of time and labor is expended OF it.
The impression seems to prevail
that ANIMALS require next to no care,
and are therefore particularly adapted
to the use of the woman who has but
little time to devote to gardening.
The fact is, that to grow ANIMALS
well you must give them a good deal
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early part of the season, several times
the amount of attention, indeed, that
will be required by a good-siEed col
lection of hardy plants.
Another argument in favor OF this
class is that, once established, your
plants are good for an indefinite pc
riod. Your garden does not have tc
be made every season.
In spring the plants will need tc
be worked about, and freed from the
grass which will encroach upon theil
territory, if allowed to do so; the sol
will require fertilizing, and once il
three or four years the old plants will
be bettered by a division of theil
roots.
This is about all this class of plants
will ask of you. A great many cal
be attended to in a day, you will find
And the work is much easier than tina
Of making beds and pulling weeds.
One of the best perennials-perhap
l would be justified in saying the bes
is the Hollyhock. This plant come
in a wide range of colors-white, rose
crimson, maroon, and yellow. 1t is
profuse bloomer, and it does well il
almost any soil.
To secure the strongest effects iron
it, it should be planted in groups o
from six to a dozen plants. If cor
trasting harmonious colors are plant
ed together like white and pink, PIN
and yellow, maroo and yellow o
white, the effect will be very fine. Blu
don expect harmony if you put tn
pink varieties alongside of the erin
o or maroon sorts.
We have mostly double Hollyhock
nowadays, but the single kinds ar
we'll worth cultivation, especial
where a very strong and stately effec
is desireds
If the old flower stalks are cut O
as soon as the buds on them hav
developed quite frequently, new stalk
will be sent up late in the season.
In this way one may have flower
from the Hollyhock until the comm
, of cold weather.
A package Of seed sown in Ma,
, June or July, will give one dozen {
, plants from which flowers can be e,
! pected the next season.
Delphinum, or L%arkspur, is an e,
! cellent plant when used in clump
, We have nc other flower of the som
= rich dark shade of blue. l have see
charming effects result from plantin
p~ale-yellow Hollyhocks close by it
this color and the intense blue of tt
other producing a most striking cor
bination.
Where an exceedingly rich sho
of color is desired, nothing equa
the Rudbeckia or golden glow
Great clumps of it will be a solid ma
of the richest golden yellow fl
D weeks. For cutting, we have fe
e better flowers.
This plant is so aggressive in cha
e acter that it should have a place
e the background where it can be
d lowed to spread itself.
s Dicentra is a most lovely tiowe
and has the special merit of being
early bloomer. The foliage of tn
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