Creating A Garden With Wild Flower :

A w-flower gar has a most attract sound. One thinks of long tramps in the wo, lecting material, and t of the fun in fixing up a real for sure w gar.

Many people say t e no luck at h such a gar. It is a question of luck, but a question of urstang, for w flowers are l people and each has its personality. What a plant has been accustomed to in Nature it desires als. In fact, w removed from its own sort of living cotions, it sickens and dies. That is enough to tell us that we copy Nature herself. Suppose you are hunting w flowers. As you choose certain flowers from the wo, ice the soil t are in, the place, cotions, the surroungs, and the neighbours.

Suppose you f dog-tooth violets and w-flowers growing near together. T place them so in your own new gar. Suppose you f a certain violet enjoying an open situation; t it als e the same. You see the point, do you ? If you wish w flowers to grow in a tame gar make them feel at home. Cheat them into almost believing that t are still in their nat haunts.

W flowers ought to be transplan after blosing time is over. Take a trowel and a basket into the wo h you. As you take up a few, a umbine, or a ha, be sure to take h the roots e of the plant's own soil, which must be packed about it w replan.

The bed into which these plants are to go be prred carefully before t trip of yours. Surely you do wish to bring those plants back to wait over a day or night before planting. T go into new quarters at once. The bed needs soil from the wo, deep and rich and full of f mold. The ur drainage sym be excellent. T plants are to go into water-logged ground. Some people think that wood plants e a soil satura h water. But the wo themselves are water-logged. It may be that you will need to dig your gar up very deeply and put e st in the bottom. Over t the top soil go. And on top, where the top soil once was, put a new layer of the rich soil you brought from the wo.

Before planting water the soil well. T as you make pla for the plants put into each hole e of the soil which belongs to the plant which is to be put there.

I think it wd be a rather nice plan to e a w-flower gar giving a sucsion of bloom from early spring to late f; so let us start off h March, the ha, spring beauty and saxifrage. T comes April bearing in its arms the beautiful umbine, the tiny bluets and w geranium. For May there are the dog-tooth violet and the wood anem, false Solomon's seal, Jack-in-the-pulpit, wake robin, bloodroot and violets. June will g the bellflower, mullein, bee balm and foxglove. I wd choose the gay butterfly weed for July. Let turtle head, ar, Joe Pye weed, and Queen Anne's lace make the rest of the season brilliant until frost.

Let us e a bit about the ls and disls of these plants. After you are once star you'll keep on adding to t w-flower list.

There is no who doesn't love the ha. Before the spring has rey decided to come, t little flower pokes its head up and puts else to shame. Tucked ur a covering of dry ves the bloss wait for a ray of warm sunshine to bring them out. These embryo flowers are further protec by a fuzzy covering. T rems of a similar protect covering which new fern ves e. In the spring a ha plant was no time on getting a new suit of ves. It makes its old s do until the blos has had its day. T the new ves, star to be sure before t, e a chance. These delayed, are ready to help out next season. You will f has growing in clurs, sort of family groups. T are lly to be found in rather open pla in the wo. The soil is found to be rich and loose. So these go only in partly shaded pla and ur good soil cotions. If plan h other wo specimens g them the benefit of a rather exposed position, that t may catch the early spring sunshine. I cover has over h a light litter of ves in the f. During the last days of February, unless the weather is extreme take t f covering a. You'll f the ha bloss ready to poke up their heads.

The spring beauty hardly ows the ha to get ahead of her. With a white flower which has dainty tracings of pink, a thin, wiry m, and narrow, grass-l ves, t spring flower can be mistaken. You will f spring beauties growing in great patches in rather open pla. Plant a number of the roots and ow the sun good opportunity to get at them. For t plant loves the sun.

The other March flower mentid is the saxifrage. T belongs in quite a different sort of environment. It is a plant which grows in dry and rocky pla. Often will f it in chinks of rock. There is an old tale to the effect that the saxifrage roots twine about rocks and work their into them so that the rock itself splits. Any, it is a rock gar plant. I e found it in dry, sandy pla right on the borders of a big rock. It has white flower clurs borne on hairy ms.

The umbine is aher plant that is quite lly to be found in rocky pla. Stang below a ledge and looking up, sees nestled here and there in rocky crevi plant or more of umbine. The nodding red heads bob on wiry, sler ms. The roots do str deeply into the soil; in fact, often the soil hardly covers them. Now, just because the umbine has little soil, it does signify that it is ifferent to the soil cotions. For it als has ld, and als l, ur good drainage cotions. I wor if it has struck you, how rey hygienic plants are? Plenty of fresh air, proper drainage, and good food are fundamentals h plants.

It is evit from study of these plants how easy it is to f out what plants l. After studying their feelings, t do make the mistake of huddling them together ur poor drainage cotions.

I als e a feeling of personal affection for the bluets. W t come I als feel that now things are beginning to settle down outdoors. T start h rich, lovely, little delicate blue bloss. As June gets hotter and hotter their our fades a bit, until at times t look quite worn and white. Some people c them Quaker ladies, others innocence. Ur any name t are charming. T grow in onies, etimes in sunny fields, etimes by the road-side. From t we rn that t are more parular about the open sunlight than about the soil.

If you desire a flower to pick and use for bouquets, t the w geranium is your flower. It droops very quickly after picking and almost immediately drops its petals. But the purplish flowers are wy, and the ves, while rather coarse, are deeply cut. T latter effect gs a certain boldness to the plant that is rather attract. The plant is found in rather moist, partly shaded portions of the wo. I l t plant in the gar. It adds good our and permanent our as long as blooming time lasts, since there is no object in picking it.

There are numbers and numbers of w flowers I might e sugges. These I e mentid were gn for the purpose of a flower guide, but h just end in view your urstang of how to study soil cotions for the work of starting a w-flower gar.

If you fear results, take but or two flowers and study just what you select. Having mared, or better, become acquain h a few, add more aher year to your gar. I think you will love your w gar best of before you are through h it. It is a real study, you see.