Wild Flowers – Found In Great Abundance?
Posted by admin on January 23, 2012 under Kids and Teens | 
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There has naturally been a great abundance of bulbous plants, which, besides being, among the first to tell us that all is well with the garden in spite of the rigors of winter, readily carry on into May. At Breeze Hill we have gone against a more or less conventional garden idea by not forgetting that hyacinths are beautiful. I confess to a prejudice against them at one time because I had been shown so often how they should be grown in rows or in a formal bed.
But a happy meeting with a great Hollander prompted me to see what hyacinths would do if treated “respectfully.” I planted them in borders, right under lilacs and similar shrubs, and I got results that were indeed pleasing. So I suggest to all my friends that they treat hyacinths as herbaceous items which, over a period of many weeks, will give an effect not obtainable by any other garden subject I know.
And the hyacinths, of course, lead right into the many other bulbs which are admirably suited to the kind of gardening I preach – that pictorial or constructive gardening in which one derives great pleasure from building pictures to be viewed as one moves to and from central objects.
To neglect the philadelphuses in such a random discussion as this would be virtually impossible, for the old mockorange has to be considered as one of the most important shrubs. True, this peat plant waits until the early weeks of June to tell its full story, but there are some early varieties that are with us in May.
Here again, however, many gardens have suffered from unnecessary monotony by reason of the fact that nurserymen either have not known about or have not bothered with the rich assortment of varieties which the French hybridizers have provided for them. More than 25 fine varieties are available, and they connect the beauties of May with the rose show of June better than any other thing that might be planted.
There are, to be sure, many other admirable shrubs to help one build his or her My garden pictures. The neglected fothergilla offers an example of what might be planted to get early May white flowers of true beauty. If there is a rock garden, or a place which looks as if it ought to have a rock garden, the exquisite enkianthus certainly comes into the picture.
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