Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-05-13 | Page 10 | Your Garden

t I t Seasonal dally daily advice and surge surge- a on preparation of IOU soil plan plan- YOUR YO U R nine planting and flower ower culture by byone I I one of the foremost floriculturists In I Salt Lake City Question addressed I 0 GARDEN G A R D E N promptly to this column when will accompanied be answered by byname I I name and Ind address both of which I 0 will be omitted upon request I I SHADY ROCKERY PLANTS A shady rockery may be mad madl very ery beautiful just a as on one built bum fc Ii sunny places Of or course plants tha thado thado thado do well in the shade hade must be selected There Is a great variety of or these anthey an ane they are extraordinarily Some Soma of or these plants to be mentioned men arc are not very well known theare the thea are hardy and after arter a trial the garden garden gar den lover lo will be very pleased In the shady rock garden there an naturally n a number of free tree space paC which require some orne upright growing plants Anemone with white flowers again the native columbine wl with h a flower lo of yellow anc and fed ed the aster a pale pale pal blue flower the harebell or blue bellof bells bell bellso o of Scotland the yellow wild indigo forming nice clumps in suitable free spa spaces s the black snakeroot with Jt It Its white flowers are nice for the background background background back back- ground or or In free rree spaces A few rew rewa va varieties a that offer orter a more mor complete selection are the Dutchman's e breeches e that tha looks very much like Uke dogtooth violets vio yb- lets the only difference being that tha the leaves are arc green and the white snakeroot with rith its profusion profusion sion ston of ot small white flowers so 50 characteristIc characteristic characteristic char char- of woodlands Geranium or Herb Robert a little biennial is pretty for rookerIes rockeries and begins blooming InJune inJune in June continuing until October The flowers are arc a small and reddish purple purple pur pur- PlC color Have you ever seen the lobed acute-lobed hepatica an early blooming western plant with white pink or purple flowers or the hepatica which gets Its name from Irom its unusual three-lobed three leaves The flowers arc are pink and dark purple and are arc especially espe espe- daily effective In a massed planting in a shady corner of the rod rockery ery Nearly everyone C likes to get awa away from the thc ordinary common plants possessed by everyone It does docs the eye ce good to see sec c something new something different therefore ar arrange arrange ar- ar range your garden individually Do Donot Donot Donot not be afraid to try a new idea or select plants not known to everyone The with beautifully marbled marbled marbled mar mar- bled evergreen e leav leaves s the mertensia mert-ensia or Virginia cowslip so adaptable for massing and one of or the choicest early carly spring flowers ers a beautiful pale blue sometimes white in early spring and of f course the phlox family again of- of joy when they begin to bloom loom The dwarf dvar varieties of 01 phlox amoena moena and arc very cry reliable To be continued