Your flower 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 forethought 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 you 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 to you 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 tar. 

 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. 



