Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1922-03-10
FLOWERS FROM EARLY SPRING
TO LATE FALL.
How To Plan For A Continuous
Succession Of Bloom In The
Hardy Garden,

dUoul mowers, you nave SOM
| hardy flowers around the place
perennials as they are called, be
cause they come back every yea
Iall by themselves, without you
having to do ANYTHING about it
| Among the first hardy fiower'
that one would like to have art
peonles and iris. You know til,
gorgeous blooms of the former.
The Joy Of Having A Succession
Of Bloom"
But why stop with two or three
kinds of hardy flowers, as sc
IN my people do ?
DO You realize that there are
dozens of perennials just as hardy
just as we'll able to take care oil
themselves, and just as generous
with their gifts of color and good
cheer as are the peonies and iris?
Why not select a half dozen or
dozen different things that you
have not grown before to set out
this spring, so that you can know
the pleasure of having flowers III
your garden, or to cut bouquets
for your table all season through?
You know what q difference it
makes when YOU have friends in
to dinner for Sunday, or the Mis-
slonarv Society meeting at Your
house on Wednesday afternoon,
II there are few flowers to put
on the table or around the room !!
A dozen different varieties will
be enough to give you some flow
ers almost every week from April
to October.
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 and fall
without blooming at all. But
every "perennial' has a definite
season of bloom and will come
into flower at this time year fter
year, with only a few DAYS vari-|
alton. 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 flow
ers every month throughout the
summer and fall from earliest
spring until after frost
In fact some of the perennials
are so hardy that they will 90
right on blooming even after a
hard frost
In the following list I have
mentioned only few of the many
splendid hardy perennials which
may be obtained a very mod
crate price and are easily grown.
The kinds which l have men,
toned are absolutely hardy not
only in their capacity to with
stand the coolest winter, but also
III their ability to look alter
themselves with the least posi-.
BILE attention.
The times given for their per-
iods Of bloom are approximate :;
they may be little earlier in the
far south or in a forward season.
Or little later in a backward
season or in the extreme north.
April. Moss Pink (Piox Sub
ulate). This is the little low
growing. ground-cover plant that
makes such bright spot Of color
III the spring. before most other
living things have realized that
winter has gone. 1t will hold it's
own against grass and neglect,
April. Hardy Alyssum. Some.
times called Golden Tuft" be-
cause Of its clusters OF bright
yellow flowers, 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 under.
stand why there should not be a
patch of it near almost every
house in the country.
May. Columbine. The "hy.
birds" show many bright colors,
Plant if possible against stone
work. or fence where its grace.
ful form will show on to the bes,
advantage.
| June. Hardy Pink (Dianthus