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Show iwiih trout the iumli'n Flowers to brighten your clay II. t'olsom ly (iiHviov Tribune Garden Editor NOW IS the time to enjoy the lovely flowers that bloom in your garden and brighten your summer days. Mr and Mrs. Fred Steenblik have a beautiful spacious garden which is filled with color from early spring until snow falls. They have a large expanse of lovely green lawn and other areas are covered with ground covers such as Creeping Jenny with its evergreen leaves and delightful buttercup like blooms. The strip between the drive way in this lovely garden is covered with creeping Jenny and this is practical as it eliminates mowing. Featured in this garden is the evening primrose. There is the tall variety which grows to over two feet and a dwarf type. The flowers which are poppy like in their appearance come in shades of white, yellow and rose. It is great fun to watch the flowers as they open up their petals. They have a nice perfume as well. You can plan the dwarf types in the rock garden and use the taller ones for the flower borders. Give them a good soil and plenty of moisture. Plants can be divided in the early spring or they can be started from seeds. DAYLILES are also in this beautiful garden and they are one perennial which should be grown everywhere They will do well where other plants do not. They also come in many beautiful colors and the blooms range in size from small to huge. The flowers last just a day hence the common name. However, the plants are filled with bloom constantly. Orien well-draine- d tal poppies, yucca, hibiscus, columbine, and many other perennials are in this lovely garden F'eatured too are hardy phlox which should be in every garden for bloom. Phlox need plenty of moisture especially during the hot summer. You will do well by irrigating rather than sprinkling as this will help to avoid mildew. If you must sprinkle phlox do so in the early morning so the leaves have an opportunity to dry off before night. You can divide phlox in the fall or very early spring. If you have a beautiful garden, a nicely landscaped business building, a new park, a well landscaped neighborhood, or a community beautification project you will want to enter it in the Civic Beautification Awards program THE SALT Lake Tribune, in cooperation with the Utah State University Extension Services, the Utah Associated Garden Clubs and the Utah Association of Nurserymen are sponsoring the 1978 program. Communities will want to try for the three fine awards by the Utah Association of Nuserymen. They will give a $400 tree planting to the community with the most entries in the over 3,000 population class with a smiilar award to the community with the most entries in the under 3,000 population class. Another $400 tree plant will go to the community accomplishing the most in a years period of time. There are 13 separate project classes which provide opportunity for many types of projects: Class A garden club projects; Class B1 civic and Fred Steenblik enjoys his garden, which is filled with color from early spring until the first snowfall. service clubs; B2- - commercial landscaping; B3- - governmental; B4 churches; Cl private gardens, professionally designed; C2 private comgardens non professional; D munity beautification and clean up; junior landscaping and gardening; E2 junior landscaping and gardening ranch and farm group; E3 neighborhood imimprovement; E4 provement; E5 tree plantings. ENTRY BLANKS may be obtained from the Salt Lake Tribune library, 143 So. Main; the Garden Center, 1602 E. 21 So., both in Salt Lake City; from garden club presidents or from district coordinators for the Utah State University extension services. Deadline for entries is July 31, 1978. Regional judging will be the week of August 14 with state judging to be August 28. So select a project today and mail your entry in to the Salt Lake Tribune. Civic Beautification Awards Entry Blank Fill in the indicated information and mail before July 30 to Civic Beautification Program, The Salt Lake Tribune, P .0 Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110. Name of Entry Where Located Type of Proiect Enter in Class Proiect Entered by Address Signature of owner, manager, or head official is required before projects on private property will be judged Is this a continuous improvement project? Year Any time before judging you may submit pictures and explanation of work done if desired NOTE 9! The pi ant doctor ciamreis tiZ. WE ARE thankful to M. L., Salt Lake City, who gives this answer to J. M. H. for their problem with walnut trees. What reader J. M. H. is probably having trouble with is Allelopathy. It is the inhibition of seed germination and growth by certain natural compounds, and is sometimes responsible for otherwise unexplained poor plant growth. Walnut trees, for example, release juglone which retards many plants. We have found out the hard way in our own garden. Beets are extremely sensitive to toxins in the soil, and planted near walnut trees at the edge of the garden do not even sprout. Other plants peas, onions, and marigolds have grown fairly well in the same spot, but most things we plant near the trees From our own experiproduce rather ence, then, we have found that there is no cure (except removing the trees) for the toxins, other than to find through trial and error what will grow in that particular plant-produce- d V f area. J. Hs problem. Have a question about your garden, indoors or out? Genevieve H. B'olsom, Tribune Garden Editor, will answer them as space permits, in the order in which we receive them. Write her at P.O. Box 867, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110. Keep your questions short. Do not send plant material or We hope this will help solve : stamped M. envelopes. Summer clipping and snipping by Or. Arvil II. Stark Tribune Garden Consultant The AS SOON as the leaves begin to appear on shrubs and trees in early spring many gardeners hang up their pruners with the erroneous impression that the pruning season is now over until next year. Far from it, summer clipping and snipping is an unending practice with experienced plant growers. This goes for fruit trees, shade trees, shrubs, vines, roses and other woody plants as well as perennials, biennials, annuals and other plants. Removal of suckers and other unwanted growth to train the tree and to open it up for better spray and light penetration is a standard practice with some commercial orchardists. Taking out misplaced branches in shade trees and topping them back to reduce size can be done in summer when the tree form is easier to visualize in full foliage. Large cuts and major pruning is best done on fruit and ornamental trees during the dormant period but there need be no hesitation about corrective cutting of minor branches and shoot removal in summer. THE GOOD books suggest pruning of spring flowering shrubs after bloom and summer flowering ones in spring before the leaves appear. C irrective pruning is best done when you see the neec and can y find the pruners no matter what the books say. Clipped hedges require cutting several times during the summer to keep them in bounds and most unclipped hedges send out errant shoots and misplaced branches that should be removed for best appearance. Summer pruning of climbing roses is highly desirable to provide space for new shoot development and removal of spent flowers from all rose plants every three or four days during bloom is essential to their best display. IN FACT, removing spent flower 5 from most flowering plants is an excellent practice to prevent unwanted seed formation and to encourage plant growth and development. Most summer snipping can be done with hand shears. Heavier cutting with loppers and saws is usually reserved for the dormant period. Just as haircuts are required to look sharp, so is continuous pruning in the garden required to maintain a meticulous standard of excellence. Salt Lake July 16, 1678 ; |