The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-03-17
FLOWERS FROM EARLY
SPRING TO LATE FALL
By F. F. Rockwell, Editor of Farm
and Fireside."


Of course, if you care anything
about flowers, you have some hardy
flowers around the place; perennials
as they are called, because they come
back every year all by themselves,
without your having to do anything
about it.
Among the first hardy flowers that
one would like to have are the peonies
and iris. You know the gorgeous
blooms of the former.
TIE Soy of Having Succession of
-"Bioom."
But why stop with two or three
kinds Of hardy flowers, as so many
people do?
DO you realize that there are dozens
of perernials Just as hardy, just as
well able to take care Of them selves,
and just as generous with their gifts
Of color and good cheer Us are the
peonies an ms?
Why not select a half dozen or a
dozen different things that you have
not grown before to set out this spring
so that you can know the pleasure of
having flowers in your garden, or to
cut for bouquets Tor your table all
season through? You know what
difference it makes when you have
friends in to dinner on Sunday, or the
missionary society meeting at your
house on Wednesday afternoon, if
there are few flowers to put on the
table or around the room!
A dozen different varieties will be
enough to give you some flowers al
most every week from April to Oc-
tober.
How to Make Sure of Having
Flowers Every Month.
Most of the annual flowers, such as
asters or sweet peas or marigolds,
bloom early or late largely according
to the time they are planted-unless
they happen to run into dry weather,
when they often dry up or fail with
out blooming at all. But every "per-
ennial" has definite season of bloom
and will come into flower at this time
year after year, with only few days
variation. So generous are many of
the perennials, however, that they
continue Towering from the time that
they first come into bloom until frost.
So you see it is quite possible to
know that you will have flowers every
month throughout the summer and
fall from the earliest spring until
after frost.
In fact some of the perennials are
so hardy that they will go right on
blooming until after a hard frost!
In the following list | have mention
ed only a few of the many splendid
hardy perennials which may be obtain
ed at a very moderate price and are
easily grown.
The kinds which | have mentioned
are absolutely hardy not only in their
capacity to withstand the coolest win
ter, but also in their ability to look
after themselves with the least possi-
BILE attention.
The times given for their periods
of bloom are approximate; they may
be a little earlier in the far south or
in forwad season, or little later
in a backward season or in the eX
treme north.
April-Moss Pink (Plox sublata)
4 This is the little low growing, ground
cover plant that makes such bright
spot of color in the spring, before
most other living things have realized
that winter has gone. 1t will hold its
own against grass and neglect.
April.-Hardy Alyssum. Sometimes
called "Golden Tuft" because of its
clusters of bright yellow flowes,
grows but twelve inches or so high.
May.-Lily of The Valley. When
this delightful. fragrant little flower
will go on blooming year after year,
under absolute neglect, it seems hard
to understand why there should not
be a patch of it near almost every
house in the country.
May.-COlumbine. The "hybrids"
show many bright colors. Plant if
possible against stone work, or a fence