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Wednesdsay March 7, 2001 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER C7 Homes & Gardens March the month for seedim (Continued from page C8) DESIGN ELEMENT: The wide door trim separating this living room from the dining room is transformed into an elegant design element. The painted detail captures the feeling of the space through both its design and deep rich colours. Natural-colour stained floor squares create a visu al break between the two rooms and add interest at the same time. produce a good crop. Fluorescent bulbs or a large floodlight are generally used for light but they need to be in a cool area to prevent the room from being overheated by the lamps or ballasts. Perhaps pepper prices will come down in the summer. Planning and Sowing Flowers to seed this month are cosmos, coleus, hollyhock, malva, marigold, rudbeckia, stock, sweet peas and verbena. Use a ster ile medium like indoor plant soil mix that has been treated. Follow the directions on the seed package. Plan to take the drabness out of the fall garden. Zinnias are seeded about April 1st. The 'Profusion Series', in orange, cherry and white are all the rage as they are mildew resis tant and strong growers. They won the All American Selection Gold Medal and on of the European Fleuro Select awards. The plants will flower right through to the fall and fill in around the late flowering sedum, 'Autumn Joy'. Pick up seeds now. Stokes and Dominion seed house have them. They will also be available as plants in May/June at most Garden Centres. If you are buying fall chrysanthemums each year, stand up and cheer. The firm that brought Flower Carpet Roses and Ball Seed Company have just joined to form 'My Favourite Company'. They have a new hardy mum with 2 1/2 in red daisy-like flowers. It is hardy to Zone 3 so will need only a light mulch to prevent heaving the first winter. It is self pinching, needing only an annual cut back in late fall or early spring. It will grow 30 in. tall and 48 in. wide and planted on 2 ft. centres, will form a nice hedge with no gaps from ground to top. The first of the series will be introduced this summer for fall bloom. If you have changed houses or just wish to update the garden, a few new varieties of shrubs may help. Some that are available at Sheridan Nurseries and other full service nurseries in our area are 'Baby Spice' summersweet, (clethra anifolia 'Ruby Spice'). This eastern U.S. native plant is very hardy, Zone 3, grows 3 ft wide and 6 ft tall with 4-6 spikes per stem of reddish pink fragrant flow ers in mid summer. The foliage turns golden yellow in the fall. The spicy fragrance attracts butterflies. It grows in semi shade in moist acid soil and has a neat vertical form. Pruning consists of removing some old stems from the base, just as the buds break, annually before spring growth. There are also white and pale pink varieties. 'Mango Tango' potentilla is the first bi colour, yellow-red cinquefoil. The deep yel low flowers have shades of orange red radiat ing from the centre. The colour contrast is deeper in the cooler weather so a semi shaded spot from summer sun is ideal. They are native to northern areas and the rocky moun tains so it is very hardy. 'Mango Tango' is an introduction of Manitoba Plant Sciences Department. Sheridan Nurseries were one of the first to introduce 'Red A ce' potentilla from Bressingham of England about 20 years ago and offer 10 different varieties now. 'Mango Tango' grows a neat 2 ft mound. It blooms late spring to fall. 'French Lace' weigela is a new variegat ed variety with dark red flowers and bright yellow leaf margins. It is 5 ft tall. Its foliage gives it a dramatic appearance in the garden. Other variegated varieties are, 'Midnight Wine', which is a low mounding dwarf ver sion of 'Wine and Roses', introduced a year or two ago. It has dark burgundy purple foliage and deep pink flowers and makes a show at the front of the flower border. 'Aureo Variegata' with cream edged leaves has wide bright pink flowers. They offer a dozen weigelas with different foliage, size and flow ers which should encourage their use. Most are available at Sheridan Nurseries. If you have had difficulty in obtaining specific annuals, perennial or fruit bushes from local sources you may want a Dominion Seed House catalogue. They have a full line of seeds and plants of annuals, perennials, and shrubs including native plants like 'Jack in the Pulpit,' to five varieties of dwarf columnar apple trees and fruit bushes. These are shipped by mail. Phone 1-800-784-3037. Settlements need landscaping (Continued from page C8) in circumference. This massive landscaping project was completed, according to archeologists, somewhere between 8350 and7350 B.C. 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