Rae BT NO fy coe oR ERENT EINE IMEI HTT SNORE OER NG eT FUTSAL HOME & GARDEN Autumn often petter time for planting IT SEEMS Canadians in general regard the spring as the prime season for plant- ing gardens. While it's true that the weather in spring is often often excetlent for transplanting trees, evergreens, shrubs, hedges, roses and vines, there are many years when the weather we experience in the spr- ing is anything but spring-like. The Canadian Garden Council points out, on the other hand, that autumn weather is usually more predictable, and for most types of plants, autumn is a better time for planting than ‘s spring. Since the expansion of con- tainerized trees, shrubs, evergreens and many other types of nursery stock, it has been possible to plant an entire garden at virtually any time in the year from the time frost leaves the ground in the ear- ly spring until hard frost in the autumn. There is, however, one distinct advantage that autumn planting has over summer plant- ing. For piants such as hedges, cer- tain shade trees, and many deciduous shrubs, autumn plant- ing means being able to obtain bare-root plants from the nursery or garden centre. These are always priced lower than containerized or balled-and-burlaped plants of the same variety sold during the summer. It is simply a case of less labor, equating to a lower price. And in the autumn, the nurseries and garden centres which offer bare-root plants, have fresh-dug materials that have been in full robust growth for all of the summer. The optimum time for planting hedges, and shade trees such as maples, ash, locust and a host of others, is immediately after the first hard frost kills the leaves on the plants. Since there is no water loss through the leaves (as there can be in the spring, when the leaves begin to grow soon after the plants are transplanted), the And sometimes nursery stock is cheaper trees, hedge plants and shrubs are able to make the needed root growth for a head start the fol- lowing spring. The Canadian Garden Council also reminds gardeners that the soil is at its warmest in the autumn, and thus the newly ac- quired plants are able to establish a good feeding root system before real winter conditions set in. Jn spring, the opposite is the case. and it is often several weeks be- fore the soil warms up sufficiently to allow the new plants to put out a vigorous new feeding root system, Horticulturists generally em- phasize the importance of autumn planting and its advantages — particularly the warmer soil and ability of the new plants ta devel- Op new roots without any loss of moisture from newly opening foliage as is the case in the spring. There are still other advantages of autumn planting. If there is a shortage of a par- ticular type of tree or shrub, ob- viously once the available plants are sold, they are gone. ft may be that an additional supply can be obtained from another part of the country, or from another country, but that is not always a sure thing. The shortage can sometimes be industry-wide. This means that if you buy your plants in the autumn, you get the first choice of what is avaiiable — ahead of all those people who will be pur- chasing next spring. It’s not only the plants that have the head start — you the gardener gain too by getting the planting done during what is gen- erally considered a less busy gardening season. Show focuses on renovations B.C. HYDRO’S forthcoming home improvement show, Renovation ’90, is being described as a ‘‘unique’’? opportunity for British Columbians to see how the industry has adopted Power Smart. 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