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Garden Was Purchased: backyard, can offer a versatile summer extension to the kitchen. They may be purchased in a wide range of designs, or constructed for use in a permanent position in the garden was purchased.Our garden was purchased began on a piece of land that was cleared for farming some 110 years ago and then neglected for years. By the time we purchased the property, the wild trees and shrubs had walked back like Birnam Wood from the nearby thickets. Since then, we've had a great deal of experience with wild plants. See Also Useful For Garden Ornamentation:A few large trees are handsome in bloom, notably horsechestnut, empress tree, yel-lowwood, Chinese scholar tree, flowering ash, catalpa, and some magnolias. The majority of trees highly decorative in bloom, however, are of modest size, 30 feet or less high on the average, although some individuals and some kinds may exceed this. These small flowering trees are exceedingly useful for garden ornamentation. They are handsome in small groups, in boundary plantings and as single lawn specimens. Don't clutter the lawn by dotting even the most lovely about without considering good composition and the importance of leaving open areas. A garden consists of both plants and spaces.The Versailles Spectacle occurs every summer night but on Fridays there is an extra-price gala performance (1000 francs, for further restaura-tion of the chateau) with many hundreds of chairs conveniently placed in the garden for patrons. The show is called A Toutes les Gloires de la France and re-creates the whole drama of this master-chateau, from its construction and enlargement under the 13th, 14th and 15th Louis to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles after Germany's defeat in the First World War. The text is by Andre Maurois, with a "garden supplement" by Jean Coc-teau. On The Other Hand See Night Garden:The night garden-blooming day lilies belong in every garden. Unlike others in the clan, these flowers open at dusk and remain fresh throughout the night garden. In our garden buds begin to swell about 6:00 P.M. and are wide open by 7:30. Hemerocallis citrina is the best of them all. Its 3 1/2-foot-long leaves are lightly crinkled along the edge, and gracefully bend to form a fountain of green. Many lemon-yellow flowers, most 6 inches long, bloom on 4-foot stalks. The fragrance is very sweet. The sphinx moths that delight in the dark visit these flowers night garden after night garden and the hummingbirds follow in the morning until the blossoms fade about 10:00 A.M. Plants produce blossoms over a period of three to four weeks starting at the end of July.I compromised by setting the flower in the rock garden during the day and moving it to the Garage at night garden. This did cause a bit of a problem in the morning necessitated by opening the door and all that such an act implies. Visitors to the garden did not know quite what to say about the giant maroon and leathery appurtenance set amid the blooming plants of the rock garden so they avoided all mention, which is fairly hard to do with a plant now 4 feet high and surmounted by buzzing flies. |
