Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-03-21 | Page 10 | Convert Back Yard to Lovely Garden

CONVERT BACK YARD TO LOVELY GARDEN k- : : a Financial Outlay 4 Need Not - ' Be Very Great By DenaM Gray Not "4 Landscape Consultant HW to plan a garden that win coat Httle, but will tire satisfactory satisfac-tory and plsaalng results: The picture hsra was takan of a back yard. Th specs of ground is 80 fiat deep and 2S ftat wide. Whan tha ownar bagaa h knew nothing about growing plant or what affect ha wanted. Ha had One 0017 tw dollar to spend, but her Ot A Is how h want . abaut planning ieriel hi gsrden. Ha asked hlmealf what ha wanted to make of this area. Ha had email children, ao ha wanted soma place wbtrt thay could play and ha had to have some place whare his wif could hang clothes. This decided tha fact that tha canter of tha plot ought ta be clear of ahruba, trees sr flowsr beds ao this area became a lawn. His requirements directed him In good design. Hs wanted a wall around hia outdoor out-door room and ha wanted to acraen out hi own and bia neighbor's garbage. For this reason hs planned, a row of ahruba In tha rear and aide nndelnee tor"ehe gaeagar He wanted ahruba and small trace that had good foliage In tha aummer, onea that had flower at different timea of the year, and onea that had berries for ths wintsr and would furnish food for birds. (His best insect eradicator la tha summer.) Instead of planting evergreens Her' how a back yard looked aflr the owner h acj spent $o0 in three-year period. to begin with and by adding manure ma-nure and some commercial fertiliser there Is new good growing soil. The total coat of tha original shrubs and trees was 125. Grass seed and flower eed another 110. Incidentals Inciden-tals aaotkat $36 oc Inlsl of about (60 during the three yean. He did hia own labor. What la the garden worth today? Tou guess. It might cost a thousand dollars If It had to be duplicated by contract NEXT Hew to Grew Tear Annual Plants. ' that coat $1 to fS apiece he bought good varieties of small tree and hrufe at 0 cento apiece. It didn't take many pianta to give him a wall of green ao he could afford to buy good varieties In small sizes. Hs wanted to gisw a tow paeon-, nials, some annual flowsrs, and have a email pool for a water lily and some fish. 8o hs bought seeds of perennials at U cents a package and grew bis own pianta that would have cost him that much for each plant. With little experience be bought annual r flower seeds at a dim a package and sowed them In th open ground. He made tha fiah pool by buying cement, sand and travel, digging out a bole In the ground and filling the bottom with ths mixed concrete. Ha filled tba pool with water from the garden hoe aad the fish ksep the water fresh. What did this garden cost in dollars? It's hard to answer exactly, ex-actly, because this garden wasn't built In a day or even a year. It has been three years under construction. con-struction. There was good topsail