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garden from April til Autumn, using hardy flowering shrubs. The varieties and uses of flower- ing shrubs available at your nurs- ery are almost endless, besides, they're inexpensive and generally crow fast. ly view, create an interesting planting and have colour in your Early in the spring, the yellow flowering forsythia is an eye- By MARK CULLEN Screen it green with flowering shrubs Special to the Beaver bu can screen out an unsig catcher. It's hardy, fast growing and great as a screen or back- ground. Prune your forsythia in about two weeks and put some of the cuttings into a vase indoors. Within a week you’ll have a beau- tiful bouquet of early spring colour inside your home. Another favourite shrub is snowball, which flowers in May. A member of the native vibumum family, the snowball produces an abundance of white snowball flowers every year. Highbush cranberry, another member of the Viburnum family is hardy, and like the snowball, grows into a strong 6-8 foot shrub. The cranberry is a native plant which changes from season to season. In June it flowers pro- fusely, in late summer it is cov- ered in edible red cranberries, and in the fall the foliage of the high- bush cranberry changes into a striking gold/red. Dwarf shrubs like deutzia, golden mockorange and dwarf burning bush ate very useful under windows, in the foreground of plantings and mixed in with (See RE 25) THIS SUN., APRIL 25 AT 4:30 PM. iNlit, mymvngw ST. (BRDNTE) OAKVILLE fllgrnM 845-9180 DJ D