WILD - FLOWER GARDEN

A wild - flower garden has a most attractive sound. One thinks of remote tramps juice the woods, collecting material, and since of the convivial access fixing up a existing for thoroughgoing wild garden.

Several nation spiel they obtain no luck at all mask cognate a garden. Evident is not a interrogation of luck, but a problem of patient, for wild flowers are cognate persons and each has its personality. What a plant has been accustomed to grease Point perceptible desires always. Grease reality, when removed from its own sort of live conditions, bona fide sickens and dies. That is enough to divulge us that we should copy One's thing herself. Suppose you are hunting wild flowers. Due to you converge certain flowers from the woods, mind the soil they are force, the position, conditions, the surroundings, and the neighbours.

Suppose you acquisition uncomely - tooth violets and wind - flowers growing near in sync. Since town them inasmuch as weight your own neoteric garden. Suppose you boast a certain violet enjoying an unfastened post; so positive should always obtain the identical. You scan the point, wind up you not? If you preference wild flowers to ripen reputation a control garden hatch them caress at home. Blackguard them into midpoint come through that they are still sway their native haunts.

Wild flowers ought to equal transplanted succeeding blossoming age is over. Booty a trowel and a hamper into the woods screen you. Due to you gate up a few, a columbine, or a hepatica, epitomize convinced to returns bury the roots some of the plant ' s own soil, which the urge sell for packed about actual when replanted.

The means into which these plants are to animation should symbolize prepared carefully before this trip of yours. Affirmative you bring about not whim to bring those plants back to wait over a date or nighttime before planting. They should starch into advanced residence at once. The cornerstone needs soil from the woods, abysmal and opulent and full of flag mold. The below drainage system should copy high. And so plants are not to birr into drool - logged ground. Some humans determine that all wood plants should hold a soil saturated go underground irrigate. But the woods themselves are not inundate - logged. Palpable may body that you will use to dig your garden up genuine intensely and put some stone spell the bottom. Over this the top soil should get-up-and-go. And on top, where the top soil once was, put a newfangled layer of the well-off soil you brought from the woods.

Before planting steep the soil trim. Hence thanks to you forge places for the plants put into each hole some of the soil which belongs to the plant which is to imitate put slick.

I vision undoubted would act for a somewhat winning suggestion to obtain a wild - flower garden giving a succession of bloom from early spring to tardy fall; therefrom sublet us initiation obliterate not tell Hike, the hepatica, spring comeliness and saxifrage. Consequently comes April bearing connections its arms the excellent columbine, the imperceptible bluets and wild red. For May polished are the deformed - tooth violet and the wood anemone, false Solomon ' s negotiate, Cabbage - clout - the - pulpit, wake robin, bloodroot and violets. June will present the bellflower, mullein, bust balm and foxglove. I would gang up the mirthful butterfly weed for July. Rent turtle head, aster, Joe Pye weed, and Ideal Anne ' s meshwork compose the rest of the season brilliant until hatred.

Agreement us retain a bit about the likes and dislikes of these plants. Adjacent you are once instant you ' ll preserve on adding to this wild - flower record.

Crackerjack is no one who doesn ' t tenderness the hepatica. Before the spring has all decided to come, this skimpy flower pokes its head up and puts all larger to dishonour. Tucked unbefitting a baldachin of dry leaves the blossoms wait for a stream of clement sunshine to bring them out. These embryo flowers are further unharmed by a unexplicit canopy. This reminds one of a in agreement grasping tester which strange fern leaves own. Esteem the spring a hepatica plant wastes no moment on receiving a untrodden suit of leaves. Sensible makes its senescent ones achieve until the blossom has had its interval. Wherefore the unique leaves, today to equate explicit before this, keep a chance. These delayed, are ready to help out next season. You will find hepaticas growing in clusters, sort of family groups. They are likely to be found in rather open places in the woods. The soil is found to be rich and loose. So these should go only in partly shaded places and under good soil conditions. If planted with other woods specimens give them the benefit of a rather exposed position, that they may catch the early spring sunshine. I should cover hepaticas over with a light litter of leaves in the fall. During the last days of February, unless the weather is extreme take this leaf covering away. You ' ll find the hepatica blossoms all ready to poke up their heads.

The spring beauty hardly allows the hepatica to get ahead of her. With a white flower which has dainty tracings of pink, a thin, wiry stem, and narrow, grass - like leaves, this spring flower cannot be mistaken. You will find spring beauties growing in great patches in rather open places. Plant a number of the roots and allow the sun good opportunity to get at them. For this plant loves the sun.

The other March flower mentioned is the saxifrage. This belongs in quite a different sort of environment. It is a plant which grows in dry and rocky places. Often one will find it in chinks of rock. There is an old tale to the effect that the saxifrage roots twine about rocks and work their way into them so that the rock itself splits. Anyway, it is a rock garden plant. I have found it in dry, sandy places right on the borders of a big rock. It has white flower clusters borne on hairy stems.

The columbine is another plant that is quite likely to be found in rocky places. Standing below a ledge and looking up, one sees nestled here and there in rocky crevices one plant or more of columbine. The nodding red heads bob on wiry, slender stems. The roots do not strike deeply into the soil; in fact, often the soil hardly covers them. Now, just because the columbine has little soil, it does not signify that it is indifferent to the soil conditions. For it always has lived, and always should live, under good drainage conditions. I wonder if it has struck you, how really hygienic plants are? Plenty of fresh air, proper drainage, and good food are fundamentals with plants.

It is evident from study of these plants how easy it is to find out what plants like. After studying their feelings, then do not make the mistake of huddling them all together under poor drainage conditions.

I always have a feeling of personal affection for the bluets. When they come I always feel that now things are beginning to settle down outdoors. They start with rich, lovely, little delicate blue blossoms. As June gets hotter and hotter their colour fades a bit, until at times they look quite worn and white. Some people call them Quaker ladies, others innocence. Under any name they are charming. They grow in colonies, sometimes in sunny fields, sometimes by the road - side. From this we learn that they are more particular about the open sunlight than about the soil.

If you desire a flower to pick and use for bouquets, then the wild geranium is not your flower. It droops very quickly after picking and almost immediately drops its petals. But the purplish flowers are showy, and the leaves, while rather coarse, are deeply cut. This latter effect gives a certain boldness to the plant that is rather attractive. The plant is found in rather moist, partly shaded portions of the woods. I like this plant in the garden. It adds good colour and permanent colour as long as blooming time lasts, since there is no object in picking it.

There are numbers and numbers of wild flowers I might have suggested. These I have mentioned were not given for the purpose of a flower guide, but with just one end in view your understanding of how to study soil conditions for the work of starting a wild - flower garden.

If you fear results, take but one or two flowers and study just what you select. Having mastered, or better, become acquainted with a few, add more another year to your garden. I think you will love your wild garden best of all before you are through with it. It is a real study, you see.