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Annuals are plants which are grown from seed each year and whoseroots die each winter. The roots of perennials continue to live in adormant condition and develop new growth again at the top with thecoming of the next spring. The first principle in the successful development of any flower gar-den is to determine the use for which the flower garden is developed. Agarden designed, either of annuals or of perennials, to show a succession 237 of interesting bloom and to make an interesting garden picture, eitheras masses of colour or spots of colour, is a different garden from theso-called cut-flower garden, from which the flowers, as soon as theymature, are apt to be cut and used for table decoration. The bestsuccess in garden development is obtained when a clear-cut line isdrawn between the so-called cut-flower garden and the flower gardenas a piece of landscape design. There is nothing more discouragingto the expert designer than to see masses of flowers at the height of theirbloom, and at a time when they should be most effective in the gardendesign, deliberately cut for table use and a resulting criticism ex-tended that the garden is not a success because it has no flowers.This discussion applies equally well to a garden filled with perennialsand to a garden filled with annuals. A garden should be, if spacepermits, either for one purpose or for the other, and if a space is desiredwhere cut flowers may be obtained, then a separate garden should beprovided from which flowers may be cut as soon as they have matured. |
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