The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-06-02
PERENNIALS FOR
HARDY BORDER
F. F. Rockwell, Horticultural Editor
The time to select plants for your
of Farm and Fireside."

F. F. Rockwell, Horticultural Editor
/ The time to select plants for your
I of Farm and Preside"
hardy garden is right now.
1 No matter how good catalog may
be; nor how vivid the descriptions of
the nursery agent, they cannot give
you the same idea of the beauty of a
| flower as you can get by actually see
ing it in bloom. To know-you must
| see!
| No other flowers are so satisfactory
rs the hardy perennials--but just be-
cause they do last so long, special
| care should be taken to select the ones
you are going to want, before you
plant.
For the next few weeks many of the
hardy flowers will be at their height.
| Among the things to look for from
now on, until midsummer, include
Columbine (Aquilegia), Sweet Will
lam (Dianthus barbatus), Iris, Japan
csc Astilbe (Astilhe Japonica), True
Forget t-me-not (Myosotic palustris),
Coreopsis, Larkspur, Blanket Flower
| (Gaillardia), Day Lily (Hemerocallis)
Phlox and Peony.
| Every Garden Needs Perennals.
! No garden can be entirely success
ful unless it contains Mt least some
perennials.
Trees and shrubs arc necessary, in
deed, as are the annual flowers, but
no place can be perfectly complete
without at least some perennials. The
perennials will give your garden that
settled, made-to-stay effect which the
annual flowers alone cannot give, no
matter how beautiful they may be.
perennials, If properly planted, like
the trees and the shrubbcry, viii real
| ly become part of the place."
I In order to make them part of the
place. however, do not make an iso-
lated garden out OF them, but plant
| them in thoughtfully arranged beds
Of borders which will fit in with the
other features of the place, such as
; shrubbery, walks and drives.
I While tending your flowers during
/ this coming summer, take notice of
the general setting of your house,
| garden and place, and begin to plan
| your garden of perennials on paper.
! Make n rough sketch Of the beds of
borders as you would like to see them,
and then gradually through the SUM
mer months, decide upon the seeds or
plants which you would like to see
1
planted in them
The summer months are the months
in which YOU should be planning your
perennial garden, for then Is the time
To make an understanding choice of
varieties, when YOU viii probably have
an opportunity or can make some OPP
portunity to see different perennials
growing either Mt florists or nur-
seryman's or in your friends gardens.
You Can Plant "pot.Grown" Peren-
nals Now.
This method of choosing your per-
ennials will save you possible future
regrets, after the flowers are up and
growing. No matter how accurate
the catalog description may be, you
can never actually tell about the real
shape, size height, color and general
charm of the flowers until YOU have
actually become familiar with them,
growing in garden. Since the mat
ter OF perennial garden may give
you disappointment or satisfaction for
years and years to come, ,lit IL surely
worthy of deliberation, and not some
thing to he settled hastily and
thouRhtlessly.
BY studying the flowers now, and
planning for your hardy garden, you
can get the actual garden Of your
dreams, rather than mere guess
work, patchwork planting, which will
fall short of your expectations.
And remember that most Of the
may be had "pot grown
so that they con be planted at any
geason Of the year, even when in
bloom. You may have some place in
your garden where YOU would like i'm
mediate res Its.