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Show Every Day Living Patio Is Place Where The Home and The Garden Meet By Phil Durt Today's patio is any place where house and garden meet and ! mingle. The modern idea is that j gardens shall . contribute charm to the home, and be intimately associated with everday living. Patios will be enjoyed most when near to the center of social activity, activ-ity, rather than hidden behind walls or hedges. Every home can and should have a patio. A paved area close to a door is preferable. A sunny place is best. Those who prefer shade can hoist an umbrella. A patio without flowers around it will never seem complete, and among them should be fragrant flowers. Most fragrant of all flowers is sweet tobacco, or nico-tiana nico-tiana affinis. This is the old-fashioned old-fashioned kind, which is far more fragrant than the improved varieties. varie-ties. The following .list of annuals may be planted around a patio, beginning close to the edge of the patio with the lowest growing grow-ing variety, sweet alyssum, then the tallest plants will be on the outer edges of the beds. Every variety listed can be grown from seed planted right away. The sweet alyssum can be planted plant-ed around the three sides of the patio. Violet Queen variety is good. Directly behind the alyssum, alys-sum, on the side of the patio opposite op-posite the house, plant a bed of white petunias, using the white dwarf variety. Make the beds 18 to 24 inches wide. In the beds alongside the patio, use tall blue ageratum in one section and annual an-nual dianthus in the other sections. sec-tions. Make these beds the same width as the bed for the white petunias at the end of the patio. Now plant a border of Cosmos, Sensation red, back of the white petunias. Cosmos grow quite tall. and the newer variety blooms early. The back borders on the sides of the patio may be planted to flowering tobacco, nlcotiana, and to cleome, commonly called spider plant. It grows quite tall and can be had in either a pink or white. Either type will be just fine for the border. The spot where you plant these flowers should receive at least six hours of sunshine each day. They will need good soil to grow in, need regular watering and. weeding. weed-ing. Annuals tend to stop flowering flower-ing when the plants become covered cov-ered with faded flowers. Keep the faded flowers removed, ant you will have bloom up to killing frosts. |