Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 76, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 30, 1980 Page: 30 of 30
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•—SECTION 3—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Twos, Surrey, Morch 30,1 WO.
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Greener thumbs
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Time to select and plant annuals
By RONALD C. WOOLLEY
County Extension Agont
Flowering annuals o| bed-
ding plants outshine all other
landscape plants in easy and
fast culture, variety, and color.
Spring is annual time .. time
to prepare soils, plant seed, or
select young bedding plants.
Annuals cannot be depended on
for a permanent landscape
item, but are instead a tem-
porary planting used for a
seasonal accent of color and
delight for the garden.
Annuals, referred to as
“children of the sun” prefer a
sunny, well-drained soil;
however, some will brighten
shaded pockets in the garden as
well.
Ageratum, Begonia,
Alyssum, vinca, balsam, im-
patiens, caladium and
geraniums grow in a light or
filtered shade. Other annuals
such as cockscomb, coreopsis,
cosmos, portulaca, salvia,
dustymiller, and verbene
delight in sunny, hot locations
in the landscape.
The fun and success witn
annuals are achieved through
careful preplanning of the
annual bed prior to planting.
Careful combination of annual
plants, considering time of
bloom, color of bloom and size
of the plant, is the key to suc-
cessful color display in the
landscape. The wise gardener
will use large areas of the same
Colorful patriotic gardens
Ry Sheila and Allan Swenson
Faced with the energy
crunch, inflation and world
tension, Americans seem to be
growing together again Cul-
tivating their victory gardens
to conquer rising food costs,
many people also are display .
ing patriotic colors in their
flower beds and borders
Some gardeners plant over
size American flags on slopes
and around their businesses
Others have cultivated red,
white and blue beds and bor
ders around town fountains or
home flagpoles It's easy with
the wide choice oi plants you
have available.
It's best if you put your
patriotic garden plan on
paper first. That way, you can
determine from seed packets
the space each type* plant
requires and achieve the best
growing effect with the plants
themselves. You can grow
bunting gardens, shields, even
flags from colonial times to
present day, if you have the
time and space.
Pick sunny locations with
well-drained loamy oil for
best results Turn or till the
ground well, 6 inches deep,
and add fertilizer, 2 to :t
pounds per 100 square feet to
give plants the best start
Petunias are excellent for
planting patriotic gardens,
Because they give you such a
wide range of colors and
shades, single- and double-
flowered blooms. Or you can
choose from other types
aster, cornflower, larkspur,
sweet peas and verbenas
Naturally, you can mix dif
ferent type for bright reds of
geraniums, blues of petunias
and whites of alyssum
Here's a selection for cold
weather, fast growing
flowers
For red aster, begonia,
larkspur, snapdragon, stock or
sweet peas For white alys-
sum, aster, baby’s breath,
snapdragon, stock or viola
For blue ageratum. aster,
cornflowers, larkspur, lobelia
or blue bonnet You II find
other choices from full-color
pictures of mature flowers in
seed racks in local stores
For more heft resistant flo-
wers that will 'thrive during
summer to provide glorious
patriotic displays, try the fol-
lowing types
For red there are celosia.
dianthus, geraniums, petunias,
pinks, salvia and red zinnias
Your choice of white ranges
from cleome to white gerani-
ums, impatiens, petunias,
Shasta daisy, verbena and
marigolds
Among blue flowers, try
blue lace flower, petunia,
summer forget-me-not, tore-
nia, verbena and blue salvia
This is just a brief list In seed
racks and catalogs, you can
pick a profusion of flowers
that will provide those red.
white and blue gardens of glo-
rious bloom you want this
year
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color or the same plant for
unity and a dominance of color,
to be accented with smaller
proportiens of a contrasting
color for interest.
A big selection of flowering
bedding plant* is now offered to
the gardening public by local
nurseries, garden shops,
variety stores and seed houses
By purchasing plants which are
already growing, one cati have
a display of flowers several
weeks earlier than if seed were
sown
The three most widely used
bedding plants are petunias,
marigolds and zinnias. In each
of these groups are several
types which range widely m
habit of growth, size and type of
flower. For instance, there are
zinnias which grow at least
three feet tail with single
flowers as much as six inches in
diameter There are =tlso
zinnias which grow less than a
foot tall with clusters of tiny
little button flowers an inch
across. New arid exciting All-
American Zinnias include:
Peter Pan Cream, Red Sun,
Yellow Ruffles and Cherry
Ruffles
Another bedding plant which
is growing in popularity is the
begonia.' This piart is well
adapted to oar growing con-
ditions and thrives in partially
shaded areas Recently in-
troduced hybrids a ad improved
strains have played- a large
unknown species have been
found feeding on peach blooms
Currently the insects are
feeding on the pets of the old
blooms Since they are
primarily a leaf feeder and
part in the popularity of the there are no leaves yet, the
begonia, not only as a bedding insect may feed on small fruit
plant in the Border but also as a or ovaries,
pot plant i Since the cold temperatures
At the time of transplanting, have already dealt a blow to the
be careful that the roots <A peaches, producers should
bedding plants are subjected to make a special effort to have
as little injury as possible. If the blooms and buds left,
plants are purchased in bands, Pesticides suggested is
trays or flats, remove them by Phosalone fZolonei. This
slicing downward m the sod material is not hazardous in the
between the plants Lift out early morning or late evening
each plants with a block of soil to bees since they are not
and set the block into a planting foraging If the crop has passed
bole. the bloom stage, use another
A mulch is especially material such as Guthian,
beneficial for annual* It Diazmin, Sevin or Parathevin
checks the evaporation of
water from the surface soil and
also saves a great deal of tune
otherwise required to keep
down weeds
Cankerworm Alert
Spring canker*onus of an
or Bacillus Thuringinsis
Geroils spend a lot of their
time chewing in order to wear
dowh their teeth — which never
stop growing
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Hopkins County Civic Center
Sulphur Springs
Billy Wayne Orr
Producer
Phone 885-5494
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 76, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 30, 1980, newspaper, March 30, 1980; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824545/m1/30/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.