Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-05
SUDDEN GARDEN"
PLAN EXPLAINED
Flowers SoWn This Spring
May Blossom in July,
Author Declares.

What one may call Sudden gar
den," one that is planned, dug, culti-
waited and sown this Spring to produce
flowers for cutting as early as July, is
well within the range of possibilities,
according to Mrs. Francis King, horti-
culturist and author on gardening sub
jects. On this subject she gives the
following advice:
First the plan. The smaller the lot
the more necessary the plan. A wide
grass walk between two flower borders
is the simplest possible garden PLAN
and when good scat or bench is set
at the farther end of the walk your
garden is really a planned garden.
Dig Deep for Results.
For practical work, dig deep and
fertilize we'll with bone meal. All di-
rectionS for such preparations are to
be had in the best seed and plant cata-
logs If your land is clay, add sand
and leaf mold, as well as bone meal
if sand, proportion of loan. With
stakes and string mark off your walk
and sow it with grass seed of the sort
recommended for your climate.
Now the fascinating work of planting
the two borders begins. Let us consider
that these are each 10 feet wide and
plant accordingly. A young elm set
out on the small lot in the place where
it looks best with both house and gar
den, line of hedge hemming in the
whole garden on three sides and back of
the seat, rising two feet above the gen.
eral level of the rest of that hedge,
will give some sort of background, while
lilac, perhaps the sweet pink Belle de
Nancy at each end of the seat will help
to form a little recess for that nice
garden adjunct.
For a sudden garden we must sow
seeds of quick-fowering ANIMALS. set
in plants which will most quickly
bloom. If the borders are sufficiently
long, 80 to 40 feet, few shrubs would
raise the level of the flower planting
and greatly improve the aspect of the
whole. At the further end of each bor-
der and four feet frolu the hedge, set
one philadelphus. VirAinal by name;
at the nearer end, in the same relative
position, one KolkwitZia amabilis, that
shrub of ravishing loneliness with pink
flowers in June, after it is we'll estab-
lished. While midway between and
three feet back from the front of these
borders, one bush on each side of the
double-flowering pink plum on its own
roots would give good Summer green
and charming effect in Spring with
tulips and daffodils.
Lilac Sweet Alyssum Suggested.
Flowers now, from the front edges
back, let us have big drifts of the lilac
sweet alysSun, from seed mot the
white), plants of nepeta mussini back
of this, Newport pink sweet William
might be set in groups beyond these,
with some plants of deepest violet pam
sizes in close association here, not less
than 25 plants in one colony, however.
Back Of the sweet Williams, white Can
terbury bells, seed of deep purple annual
larkspur sown among the bells for a
succession of bloom here; plants of
hardy phloxeS especially Elizabeth
Campbell, Antonin Mercie and Lord
Rayleigh, with hardy chrySanthemums
placed among the phlox plants. Also
among these last, plants of tall blue
delphinium and the dwarfer Bella
donna. In various parts of the Dor
der for Autumn color sow very early,
seed of the dwarf annual marigold,
Lemon Queen, and set also in Spring
here and there among all these things,
two groups of five each of the good,
hardy aster, King of the Belgians,
these more toward the back of each
border.