The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 28

1 glt 10 gab from the garden To Insure Spring Loveliness Plant Flowering Bulbs by Genevieve Folsom dark purple flowers and bright orange crests These are tiny plants only four inches high For a bold planting combine the huge Red Emperor tulips with golden daffodils With them use a border of golden pansies Now you can obtain a Golden Emperor tulip and a White Emperor Use the three together Blue Pansies would be a nice color contras for a bed of the White Emperors The larger bulbs-4e Oattodils hyacinths or tulips should be planted at least six inches deep and six Inches apart In sandy soil plant them a little deeNsr t'se a bulb planter or a trowel for planting bultkc If you use a trowet use it to pull the soil toward you plant the bulb and fill in the hole If you are going to plant a number of bulbs in one location you might find it best to remove all of the soil to the correct planting Jr 1( 11e 'r ii ilk 1 SPRING FLOWERING bulbs are the glory of the garden Their gay colors bring a cheerful brightness that is most 'welcome Lovely garden pictures can be created by combining the bulb flowers with other early blooming flowers and with the early flowering shnihs and trees Use your flowers as an artist would his combine the golds the purples whites the oinks the blues reds qnd yellows for spectacular plantings plant bulbs in clumps of a dozen or more of one variety if you are using the larger bulls such as turn-smaller sypes such as the (To engea and the snowdrpps will Want as many as fifty or more bulbs Ina single planting THE SNOWDROPS bloom very early as do the crocuses Plant these in front of evergreens in large beds It should not cost too much for these tiny bulbs are inexpensive Plant them three Inches deep and three inches apart They should be where the bed can be seen by visitorstas well as the family for they are a welcome sight in early spring Place great drifts of these tiny bulbs along the walkway or the driveway or plant them on the edge of the lawn They will remind you of colorful Easter eggs with their plump blooms of lavender blue mauve violet purple yellow gold and white There are some with weathered markings and stripes Give the crocuses a sunny location and tuck a few in your rock garden for early color there Let your children assist in planting these bulbs They are easy to do and with the combined efforts of the entire family the planting of a hundred bulbs or so becomes an easy task WHILE DOING the bulb planting don't fail to put in some Iris Reticulata These early blooming plants are a lovely sight with their brilliant depth $et the b-lbs in place till in around with lop soil This win give a ve rov bulb planting DAPPOPITS are lovely planted'in front el' tl'e early blooming shrubs It in around the daffodil planting wah blue for' get-me-nots Gr" 7 hyacinths or I a i with their blue-lavender flOWfs'S make a delightful border or edgi for goblin daffodils yellciw I even pink tulips Try the forget-me-nots with the pink or yellow tulips Mint pink or to or gold tulips in front or a crabapple flowering peach or plum for extra loveliness Ajtiga looks well with white tulips and basket of gold makes a perfect background for red or lavepti-r tulips White tulips look well with creeping color Selost Milos and daffodils so you will have of bloom You will be able to oh-trim varieties to tring you flowers from Arnil to lune Earliest are the Specio's tulip the trumpet daffodils the single and double early tulips Next are the large and medium mimed daffodils the short cupped daffodils then the later flowering bulbs DON'T FAIL to get some of the exotic parrot tulips such as Fantasy a deep rose with creamy-pink edges and green markings 111-'elt Parrot a large purple black Blue Parrot a laree blue-lavenanr: Orange Favorite a deep orange with leatherings of rnemt: Therese cherry scarlet and 'xas Gold bright yellow Plant these in large groups in the borders or In riviss rff-et by themselves They make interesting material for flower arranpin- Nothing has such lovely frarrance or loci-s as betiutifill as is mass planting of hyacinihs While we are mare familiar with the pas'el shades of these flowers yott cm now obtain them in deep ealons surh as red- yellow purple and orange ELL' Prepare- for next spring's rebirth in your garden by planting spring flowering bulbs A little v'iark now will be more than repaid when garden is full of blooms advice from the garden Idoctor 1 gardeners might try the locust borer-conirol treatment on other species Try to get some of the spray liquid in the openings of the borer holes Controlling The Tree Borers by Dr tirvil Stark tumn spray of dieldrin applled to the trunk and branches of black locust trees controls locust borcrs for three or four years Mix one pint of 185 per cent dieldrin in eight gallons of water and soak the trunks and Major branches thoroughly with the spray We do not have practical results to justify a similar control procedure on quaking aspen and other tree borers but in the absence of such knowledge home PEACH ROOT borer should be dug out now with a lloy scout knife operated by the owner who is anxious to do his daily rod turn or you can obtain a liquid borer-conorol solution from your garden shop to control this pest A YOUR ANSWER TO HILLSIDE PRO" EMS 12 ran I 21 rmt 'C216 Z1 '1vj' HOLD-A-NW Clocks on the ground under the black locust branches is one way to detect the presence of the borer in the tree A rir way is to rough bark of the trunk and major branches Thee will be about inch in diameter In the smooth bark of quaking aspen borer openings are easier to spot Locust borers usually confine their activity to black locust trees Peach borers are less particular in their eating habits and attack a wide range of plants CONTROL of all borers is best accomplished by keeping the plant in a healthy vigorous condition Borers prefer weak slow -growing trees A single au crevasses of the bark in August and September In a week or two these eggs hatch into small worms that are boro hungry and trnmediately be-01 io Search for something to eat Since the only thing close at hand that is edible is the bark they begin to tunnel into the bark and wood of the tree Having nothing else to do they spend the fall and winter boring about in the branches and trunk of the tree leaving tunnels IA inch in diameter and sometimes larger BECAUSE they bore holes faster than they can eat there is a surplus of frass and this they bring to the opening and push it out This sawdust-like material 13SPEN AND black 1ocust are favorite trees for wood borers and so are maple and ash Willow too sometimes becomes the home of these de structive insects and of course all peach owners are aware of the peach tree borer that girdles the tree at the soil line There is also another borer commonly called shot borer that makes a series of small holes in cherry peach and some other fruit tree branches 4tiet's 'direct our attention to borers in black locust trees The adult of this insect resembles a wasp in some respects with yellow and black markings over the body Females deposit tiny white eggs in -AKI 0444 4441 7----itc-z----- J7 4L: i' 71ILi --11--- 474 I 'it 1 1 4 i ''s 41 Prevonte Erosion lotoins Soil Visitor 011oeutilios Hillsides Will Turn 30-60-90 Illogre Anglo FREHNER'S Mountain West Gvrtlens 154? SIPINI MOM PHONE 277-2081 BAIT IAKII GM UTM4 23 Salt Lake City Utah October 8 1987.