16 - Friday, October 13, 1989 - North Shore News

Littie bulbs ideal
for rock gardens

ROCK GARDENS are grov-ing in Other little daffodils, such as Tete’ (multi-flowered, yellow),
popularity in many Canadian cit- ‘Jack Snipe’ (yellow and white), See Wild
ies. ‘Beryl’ (primula yellow), ‘Tete-a- Page 17

Not only do they require little
maintenance, rock gardens do not
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are the ‘‘little” bulbs, which refers
both to size of the flowers and the
bulbs themselves, in most cases.

Large, showy varieties — such
as hybrid tulips and hyacinths, for
instar.ce — with lots of lush foliage
which are appropriate in beds and
borders are totally out of character
for the spare, delicate beauty of a
rock garden.

For that reason, the best choices
among bulbs for a rock garden are
generally the species, or botanical,
varieties. There are a nuinber of
tulips, fur instance, to choose
from: T. aucheriana has a pink

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better known T. tarda (white-
pointed yellow flowers; 10 cm) and
T. turkestanica (creamy white
flowers, standing 20 to 25 cm high)
both thrive in such settings.
Hybrids of T. kaufmanniana and
T. greigii also are well suited to
rock gardens.

However, there is no reason to
outs limit rock garden composition to
poe botanical tulips when species of

os narcissus are available, too. N.
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tall, biooms early and performs
well, especially in slightly damp
conditions. Another attractive op-
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