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Why not plant
green tulips?

AEE SPRING-FEOWERING
bulbs such as tulips, dattodils,
hsacinths and crocus hase fo be
Planted inthe tall, betote the tina
hard frost of winter.

There are oereen tulips? Phe
Viraditlora tulips date back to a
stram ool velfow-ereen bulbs
known abour 1700, Through
bs bridization and mutation. steak
Ing culavars have been devehoped
which feature a ereen blotch on

cach narrow, ported petal, oan
coutbinanion with another color.
For instanee, there ots Arges

(orange ereen), Proapernel
fpurple-red green) and Greenland
(rose ereen),

Bulb tlowers make natural,
complementary companions far
each other. In addition rain.
terplaniine with perennials and

shrubs, try placing ao cluster af
grape hsacinths among groups of
yellow or white large-cupped and
trumpet datfodils, such as Dutch
Mfaster or Mount Hood.

Dahtias and tuberous begonias
are putting on their final show of
the season this month. So, leave
them in’ the ground until the
foliage has died down completely
because this is when the tubers
grow the most vigorously,

However, don't let them go too
long: they cannot stand any frost.

In the meantime. enjoy the late

NEWS pholo Mike Wakefield
BULB TIME has come to the North Shore. Now is the time to get

ar i . _ your hands dirty, while the mild weather still makes gardening a blooms of colchicum and autumn
ce al pleasure and before the frosts turn the ground hard. Some crocus until the end of this
irr thoughtful work now will mean color in the early spring. month,

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