Planting Time From 'all sides, including Broadcasting House, we are
being advised to plant bulbs now. The question about which little is said is : " Where ? " The bulb does not on the whole agree very well with other plants. Many a gardener forgets where his bulbs are and digs them up unintentionally, and in the best regulated gardens their decaying leaves and flower stems are a rather unwelcome spectacle. Lilies, of course, like lowly companions to keep their feet cool. One great gardener prefers to associate them with heaths. There. is one humble plant that makes an admirable companion for any bulb. It is the catmint. Its vigour is best pruned just before the time when daffodils begin to flower and it grows just in time to hide the uncomely relics. One needs catmint as well as bulbs, and its vigour may in this way be turned wholly to good purpose, especially in the small garden where space is not to be wasted. In one such, most of the bulbs were planted among alternate roots of viola gracilis and catmint which are always attractive in association.
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