Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-04-18 | Page 16 | In Your Own Garden

In Your VM R. R PERE PERENNIAL WAL PHLOX FOR FOB SUMMER COLOR There is a period In late summer when the phlox is easily queen of the he garden and if It you have no phlox your borders seem strangely empty Let me urge you to buy a afew few Cow ow roots now so that you ou will have lave the pleasure of ot seeing the large heads of ot gayly colored blooms this his July and later You may already be a lover lo of or orthis this his perennial In that event you arc aro sure to have several varieties in n your garden But do you know that hat finest results are arc obtained only when division of or the roots is practiced most moat religiously at least every ivery second spring In this way the he flower heads are re more massive the he individual florets larger the stems terns taller and also you are able to o make a bigger display because you get got many more roots Phlox likes plenty of ot water and andt it t really doesn't love too much sun I have seen people try to grow It ItIn itIn In n a narrow border along along- the south foundation of ot their houses where the he sun beats down dow fiercely and where the house foundation on one oneide side ide and the cement walk on the theother theother theother other soak up the moisture from the he soil like Uke blotting blotting- paper Naturally Naturally Nat Nat- the poor phlox was anemic and sad looking Be sure that you have plenty of ot white phlox especially if it itou you ou have i sneaking sneaking- fondness for those most warlike tones of vermillion red in which the phlox seems to abound White the peacemaker will tone down these flaunting colors There are many excellent white varieties and even if ir you have no others you must have Miss Lingard because this his is the longest blooming of ot all phloxes Miss Lingard starts to open her buds in June and keeps up the show until there are no more flowers flowers flowers flow flow- ers in the garden The snowy white petals of or this phlox provide provIde provide pro pro- vide excellent material for mixing with other blooms for home dec dec- oration A tall taU white phlox Miss Lingard Is s rather dwarf will be found in inthe in inthe the tho variety Von which will reach a height of or four feet in ina a position that is to Its liking To go back to the reds Brilliants Brilliant Is s all that its name Implies It is the tone of fiery iery red that makes mattes me blink but I know that many amateur gardeners gardeners especial especial especial- ly y those of ol the stronger sex love sex love thIs this shade They will revel in Brilliant and in Firebrand But please do keep keep away from pinks or using lavenders using the whites to tone them hem down A good rich crimson deeper inI in in I hue hua than either of or the two fiery creatures just named is Corn Com om- om mander Pink phloxes are numerous and always good Elizabeth Campbell Campbel you probably know since it is anold an anold old ld sort but is always lovely with Its ts salmon pink flowers Salmon Queen a later introduction tion has haa larger heads of bloom A rose pink phlox that alwa always pleases the beholder Is Miss Ver Ver- boom with fine largo large flowers from June until October almost as Ion Ionas long longas as Miss Lingard In fact these thes two two phloxes make a pair of oC charming charming charming charm charm- ing companions There is a rich purple phlox ol or of which I am especially fond that I have had hadIn In my garden for tor some sometime sometime time lime without knowing its Us name But William Ramsey a new introduction Intro intro- must be very much like It ft judging from the descriptions in inthe inthe inthe the catalogue This purple makes a fine combination with the salmon pinks You should never let the phlox go to seed Not only do you shorten ho tho blooming period by doi doing g so but you OU also get a lot of or seedlings seedling all over the garden that have no value at all aU being almost always alway an uninteresting color color color-a a mudd muddy magenta-lavender magenta which is th the original color of the phlox Seedlings Seed Seed- lings ings never come the same color a athe as the parent plant QUERIES A. A L L. B. B Salt Lake City writes Please give me names of the in in- in closed leaves They are arc both evergreens on a place we have bought Answer The Answer The first one is arbor arbo arborvitae arborvitae vitae the second or Oregon Oregon Oreon Ore Ore- gon on grape