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Show TIPS to (jardeners Rock Garden Advice C ELECTION of flowers and their location in the garden caa make or break your rock garden. Therefore, descriptions on seed packets must be read carefully when seeds are bought, and the plan of the rock garden must be carefully worked out. Creeping plants, for instance, should be allowed to make carpets of color in the larger soil pockets. Erect plants may be used in flat spaces. Trailing plants should be allowed to droop over the face of rocks, or they may be placed at the top of the bank or wall. In smaller crevices, tufted plants with rosettes of foliage and short flower stalks are suitable. Ordinary garden or bedding plants should be eliminated from consideration consid-eration for the rock garden, it is advised by Gilbert Bentley, flower expert. True rock gjrden plants grow less than 10 inches tall. Use only low-growing annuals and perennials perenni-als that grow among rocks in their native haunts those that belong by nature among stones. |