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Bulbs may be planted either for a formal or for an informal and morenatural effect. The first planting requires the stiff symmetrical lines ofrefined lawn and garden areas; the second effect requires the moreinformal, flowing lines, either of the refined lawn areas or of the in-formal garden areas. It is quite a matter of taste which of theseeffects should be desired. Many persons desire the conventional, un-interesting ribbon boundary bordering the edges of shrubbery, whileothers desire the more natural, scattered mass effect which gives hereand there a spot of colour and a certain relief to the bare effect of theshrubbery plantings prior to the time of breaking their buds, and alsoto the ground underneath. It is important to know the time offlowering for various types of bulbs in order that the late-floweringtypes, such as the Darwin tulips, may not be scattered through a shrubplanting of the bridal wreath spirea, or the early honeysuckle, wherethe full leaf effect will obscure the flower effect of the bulbs. |
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