Your tlower garden should reflect... 
... Your own sense of beauty! 
One of the greatest joys of gardening is to view your 
own home surroundings, shimmering in breath-tak- 
ing color and harmonious design . . . especially so if 
it is your own origination, a thing of beauty created 
by yourself. Its accomplishment may seem like 
magic! Yet, it is merely the result of a correct ap- 
proach, the result of joining hands with mother na- 
ture, applying a bit of fore thought and planning 
and adhering to a few simple rules of plant culture 
and design. 
To start correctly, draw a plan of your garden 
on ruled paper. Draw to an appropriate scale 
so that you may visualize the effects you want to 
create. Your objective is to achieve exciting new 
color combinations, new groupings of varieties that 
will extend your blooming period from early 
spring until late fall, different plant heights and 
types of foliage combinations for still additional in- 
teresting effects. When vou purchase a Ferry’s Seeds 
flower variety, you will find data listed on the packet 
pertaining to its height, its length of blooming sea- 
son and its effective use in the garden. Also, an 
illustration, reproducing as nearly as practicable 
plants in their true colors and other natural fea- 
tures, is on the front of each packet of Ferry’s 
Seeds. Additional information pertaining to all the 
flower varieties we list can also be found in this 
Guide. This information should prove very helpful. 
You should be able to use your garden plan year 
after year. By growing a large percentage of an- 
nuals, you will be able to incorporate different ideas 
in your garden each new season. Thus, your garden 
will be flexible in that each year, it will display re- 
freshing new scenes of beauty. Be constantly on the 
alert for new color schemes and designs. They will 
occur toxzou as you walk through your own garden, 
as you browse through the pages of magazines, or 
when you visit a neighbor’s garden. Have a book 
handy in which to jot down new ideas. 
Remember, too, when planning the placement of 
plants, it’s not merely where they will look best, but 
where they will grow best. The amount of shade or 
sun, the kind of soil and type of drainage are factors 
which will greatly determine just how successful a 
plant will be in a given location. 
And... lastly, for plants bountiful with dancing 
blooms, cut the flowers before they mature too far. 
To mature blooms and produce seed, a plant expends 
many times the energy needed to produce one bloom. 
Thus, when you cut flowers before they mature, 
you are helping the plant store up energy which will 
be used to produce more blooms, each bigger, better 
and more colorful. Possibly this is the reason why 
people who are so liberal with the flowers they grow, 
seem to have the best gardens. 
