HEN you have perennial borders as 
colorful as those pictured here, you 
can count yourself a successful gar- 
dener and can expect your place to be in- 
cluded in the next local garden club tour. 
In order to achieve such beautiful effects, 
considerable time and planning and yearly 
maintenance is needed. 
With this word of warning, we most cer- 
tainly do encourage you to make a start 
toward the garden pictures of your dreams. 
Don’t expect the impossible the first year. 
Plan before you plant anything. Study the 
list of perennials that we offer. It is a very 
good selection of varieties, and our plants 
have proved satisfactory to our customers 
for a great many years. There are also 
several good books on perennials that will 
give you many suggestions. 
Remember that you are not planting 
plants as such; you are planting pictures 
that will grow and change with the seasons. 
Think of your perennials as companions 
of each other, and make sure they will be 
good neighbors. Give them room enough to 
grow to a reasonable size. Don’t ask the 
same clump to bloom all season long; plan 
for a succession of things. As your spring 
bulbs die down, there must be perennials to 
replace them. 
Here are a few points to consider: type of 
soil and location; growth habits; color; 
height; season of bloom; texture and color 
of foliage. Innumerable possibilities are 
within your reach. All you need is imagina- 
tion—and what gardener lacks that? 
A perennial border in midsummer 
