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Show Gardeners who think small turn to scaled-down plants Give three cheers for the scaled-down scaled-down flowers and vegetables that fit so appropriately in today's popular popu-lar small gardens. The multiplicity of townhouses, high rise apart- professional commercial growers, home gardeners will find dwarf plants among the newer varieties of cabbages with small heads, but with superior fresh garden flavor. ments and condominiums has brought a new kind of garden with a compact look. These in turn call for smaller garden plants in scale with the mini-plots or containers. The Bedding Plant Industry is ready with scaled-down plants for small garden needs, because these plant specialists look ahead at predictable pre-dictable trends. Hollyhocks, as an example, have been thought of traditionally tra-ditionally as 4 to 5-foot towering plants, big enough to screen a small building or to make a flower fence. There are now dwarf hollyhocks growing only two feet tall. They even have bushy side branching that bloom almost equally with the centra stalk. Where a carpet effect with low edging plants is called for in small gardens, fine, close-cropped blue and white ageratums deserve consideration. con-sideration. They flower with flosslike floss-like blooms at six-inch heights. Even less elevation is possible with the three to four inch high mounds of annual alyssum in white, lavender laven-der and purple. Dwarf forms of annual asters at 12 inches tall are only a third the height of these flowers in other varieties. Similarly, dwarf strains and hybrids of other garden flowers allow floricultural design on smaller-scale properties. Small, compact com-pact plant sizes in wax begonias, dianthus, impatiens, marigolds, salvias, snapdragons and zinnias have been developed and are suggested sug-gested for inclusion in small gardens. gar-dens. prized by home gardeners has made possible development of less spacious spa-cious growers. At quality garden centers displaying transplants from |
