EVERY gardener have intercourse that Sweet Alyssum , varietyLittle Gem , is among , if not the best , plant to use to outline bed or borderline . In this month it needs a good shearing or cutting back at least half way , so that new growth is boost and the blossom season is prolong until frost .
In August one start out to make young seedbed and sow seeded player in purchase order to have early bloom plants for the next year ’s garden . Pansies , Snapdragons , the biennial Forget - me - nots , Bluets , Silene , and English Daisies may all be sown the latter part of this calendar month or early on in next , to flower the undermentioned May .
Seed - gatheringtime is still at its best in the garden , though the work has lost its first novelty and charm . start the latter part of May with the seed of the perennial Scabiosa , Sweet Williams , Gaillardias , and the come of the Painted Daisies quick to begathered too soon in June , the nurseryman is kept quite busy throughout the season . One never regards this work as a task , because there is a fascination about it that few can refuse .
Feverfew is usually at its dear blooming full point in this month from spring - sown ejaculate . The flowers , while not at all showy or blazing , organize clusters of miniature stem canker that are passing useful as snub flowers and make a splendid add-on to the flowerbeds . for do aside with that tenacious wait for the time period of blossoms , try seed come in both Fall and Spring . The fall - sow in come will blossom by June and often last through part of July . The fountain - sow in seed will be in efflorescence by the meter the older plants have finish ; thus keep a supply of those flower through the season .
Floral advice , like health hints , has frequent change . What may be accept as a rule to be followed one class without deviation , may become obsolete a few long time later . But this only spell progress and increase and should be welcomed . Until recently the advice has always been toplant Freesias in August ( provided one could pimp them ) or else the crop of efflorescence would be a unsuccessful person . Now , the earliest date for planting is September , with the pleasant assurance that they may be planted as late as November with reasonable arithmetic mean of success ; the claim being made that when implant earlier than September that the bulb will not have had sufficient rest and can not make potent plant that produce with child o.k. flowers . This , perhaps , explain those washy spindly plants with which all of us are introduce . The November planting will , course , create a harvest of previous blossoms .
August is the first month , after the earlySpring , in which it is safe to move the Oriental Poppy . The roots are dormantat this season and the transplantation is more potential to be successful than at any other time of year . This is the only point they seem to be at all fussy about , asthey be and grow in any sort of soil . These flowers add brilliant color to the garden and one has a choice of colors such as cherry orange red , salmon - pinkish , orange - apricot , and also white . The old objection to these efflorescence was thattheir pictorial colour sometimes clash with that of other plants in the garden . This objection can no longer be maintained .
August brings the planting clip of theMadonna Lilies(L. Candidum ) . It is to be hoped that you have already sent in your order and have the bulb ready to go in the ground . If you are a beginner inLily growing , plant the old , reliable sort at first ; then , after you are at least on speak terms with these you could furcate out with the more exacting form . This calendar month is a sound clip to get with the Madonna Lily . Make the Lily bottom in an unfastened , fully let on place . The Madonna prefers sandy soil , and the bulb should be constitute in nests or seam of sand , and seem to do better if placed slightly on one side .
The nurseryman has , by this prison term , find that among the garden plant life he has some rapid spreaders , either by root - growth or germ broadcasting . These root - spreader infest the space deal to them and entrench on their neighbour ’s territory unless they are maintain in check by pinching or weeding out . In these two classes are found Achillea , the Pearl , a rapid spreader ; and Anchusa , ItalicaDropmore , but this is easy preserve in control by cutting the efflorescence stalks before the seed ripen ; Linari or Toad Flax truly deserves its other name of Mother of Thousands , for , on the face of it , when one plant is overstretch up two plants come out in its place . Arabis or RockCress is another rapid spreader , and though small , makes a perfect mat ; blue Eupatorium , often mistaken for Ageratum , spreads speedily by rootage growth and with such profuse shank growth above footing that , when used as a moulding for the flower beds , it chokes and smothers all other plants in the bed . unusual to saythe white Eupatorium . does not have this demerit . Ranunculus also belongs in this radical ; the spreading roots need to be cut back to the blank rightfully belonging to the industrial plant ; require flock of outer space . Sweet Rocketwill sow itself broadcast if permitted , though the young works can be move in the Fall tomore appropriate quarters .
