NORTH | SHORE . designers study a blueprint of the Buckerfield
house, & home. currently open for viewing to raise funds for the Van-
couver. Symphony Society. These designers helped completely
redecorate the Vancouver home. Pictured from left to right are Don
Kavanagh, Cynthia Baxter, Jack Watts und Penny Peters. Other local
designers who helped were Judy Dennis and Keath Seeton. The home,
at 2040 Marine Drive, is open for viewing until June 7.

ENSURE BLOOMS

21 - Friday, May 29, 1987 ~ North Shore News

NEXT YEAR

Continue care for
your rhododendrons

NOW THAT the majority
of rhododendrons have
finished their blooming cycle
for another year, we tend to
let these wonderful plants
slide from our awareness.

Even though next spring’s show
is almost totally dependant on how
healthy the plant remains over the
next few months, we allow our at-
tention to be diverted to such
meaningless things as barbecues,
holidays, Sunday afternoon foot-
ball, and other wastes of time.

Now is the time to lay down the
second application of rhodo and
azalea food in order to feed both
the emerging foliage and the
beginning stages of next year’s
flower buds. ’

Use a fertilizer that has been
especially prepared for acid-loving
plants with an‘N-P-K ratio of ap-
proximately one part nitrogen to
three parts pkosphorus and two
parts potassium such as 4-12-8 or
6-18-12 and applied at label rates.

This is also the time to begin
dead heading your plants. I am not
referring to any ‘sadistic forms of
butchery or arcane voodoo rituals
here, rather the removal of’ the
spent flowers and possible seed
heads.

This is done to prevent wasting

. valuable energy on the develop-

ment of seed when it could be bet-
ter spent on the creation of a more
vigorous plant and future flower
production.

Look at the base of the spent
flower truss and you should see a

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short, squat, wrinkled stalk. Pinch
this stalk between the index finger
and the thumb just above. the
wrinkled zone. Be careful not to
remove the emergent foliage buds
when snapping the stalk off.

tually be prepared to use them if
you want to keep your rhododen-
drons at their best.

And don’t stop watering just
because the kids have gone back to
school — you must keep it up until

over the

garden gate
by Geoff Tobiasson .

One of our first obligations to
these plants that heve given us
such beauty over the past few
months is water, for with very few
exceptions, rhododendrons come
to us from the wetter regions of
the earth.

I know you folks in Lynn Valley
and ever Deep Cove will have
trouble accepting this, but you must
buy a hose and a sprinkler and ac-

the rains come again in the fall.
You can undo all the good you’ve
done throughout the growing
season by quitting too early if we

_ have an Indian summer.

Then there, are those nasty little
creatures which rise up out of the
ground after dark to, feed. Sound
scary? Well it should. Weevils

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