Gardening in February in the Southern United States
By J. Lester
rosebush planted this month will give steady and continuous bloom from April to December . Get the upright plants you could find . Cheap stock is worthless and not to be considered at all . Two - twelvemonth plants in telephone number one grade from a reliable Rose grower in varieties of Hybrid Teas , Teas , Australians , Polyanthas and Floribundas will give you the full-bodied returns from your planting .
Red Rosesof charm and scent are Etoile de Hollande , Essence that is sweet-smelling of all , Ami Quinard the drear red , Christopher Stone the brightest . Hollande leads the inclination for hardiness , continuous bloom and freedom from disease . Other worth while cherry Roses may be your choice , but plant not less than five of one kind in ordering to have mass florescence in the borders and abbreviate flowers for the rooms .
Never fail flowersare found on Edith Nellie Perkins , Talisman , President Hoover , Margaret McGredy and Condesa de Sastago . The two last single , however , show black spot persistently .
Mrs. Jules Boucheand Caledonia are the most satisfactory white Roses . Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont and Golden Dawn the best of our yellows , though Soeur Therese and Sunburst are reliable and blossom well in bound and crepuscle .
A few freshness Roses , added each year ; will bring new pleasure and beauty and give much wanted experience . sample them out in median garden with average care and be sure to report on your success or failure to the American Rose Society , of which you are , of path , a member . Every Rose cultivator and lover should be .
Success with Roses , as with all industrial plant , means careful preparation as to dirt , photograph to sun and melody , fertiliser and mulching . The wellness problem will be easily remove caution of if the three - in - one sprays are used regularly .
All the conifersrespond well to plant at this time of year . Now is also the time to give them their semi - one-year peak - shearing .
Finish the dormant spray asearly as potential . before long the buds will be swelling and the lime - sulfur spray , even 1 to 40 , will burn .
fertilise lawnswith a chemic fertilizer , preferably with one , which has been prescribe after a soil test . apply compost on the rest of the garden , including bush , Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree , Roses and everywhere except on the incandescent lamp beds .
Hotbeds and coldframesshould be seeded with the tender flowers for early transplantation . Petunias , Verbenas , Snapdragons and lovely Nierembergia hippomanica should be sown at once . utilize rustresistant Snapdragon semen . Try the new Purple Robe Nierembergia , which is a Bronze Medalist .
Nierembergiasare invaluable for low masses of coloring material in rock gardens or borders and for edging . They flower through spring , summer and evenfall and the plants are evergreen with soft feathery foliation .
Annual seedssown in the declension will soon be blooming . Broadcast , now , semen of Gypsophila , Nemophila , Virginian Stocks and Linaria to add weeks to your season of rosiness . Phlox drummondi can also be sown again , but no others .
veg . Sow in the open ground seeds of collards , radish , celery and kohl - rabi . Start tomatoes and peppercorn in insensate frames .
virtually allthe retentive inclination of bush and trees can be planted until April . Buddy Holly , Tulip Trees , Camphor , Dogwoods and Anise are partial to leaping plantings .
Gardeniasor Cape Jasmines , as they are call in the South , are fashionable again . They are supposed to be temperamental , to necessitate deep tint and an acidulous soil and even then they turn badly with annual attacks of pitchy mildew and San Jose scale . Do we cosset them too much and give them less light and air than they take ? It would seem so .
The finest Gardeniasseen in a longsighted time were recently happen growing and care for by a neighbour who adores flowers . Her plant were 6 feet wide and as tall . They grew in sand and almost in full sun and had never been spray . The blooms were very - fine and were continuous over a long time of year . Last class a supporter presented us with a Trailing Gardenia , which is as rarified as it is lovely . The works was set out in a turning point where the sunshine amount hard and in the thick of a trying year the modest Gardenia was forgotten . Now , in bitchiness of all , the small leaves are brilliant and green and cover the plant with a promise of tiny fragrant blossoms for another year . Less forethought and more sun may be the answer to grow Gardenias .
