The Lucknow Sentinel, 1979-09-26, Page 4raga. 4—Luelinow Sentinel, Wednesday, September 26, 1979
• Flowers
create
colour
Margaret Andrew Tikes a bit of colour to
look at from her kitchen window, while she
works. And at this time of the year, her lawn
is a profusion of colour.
Her rock garden on the front lawn is in
bloom with every colour imaginable. The
shaded area of the rock garden protected by
the willow on the front lawn, is bathed in the
pinks and reds of impatience. A border runs
along the laneway toward the barn and
another rock garden climbs up the bank from
the stream which runs through the front
vard. It was started as a 4-H project by her
eaughter. Mary. Along the 'east side of the
house. Margaret's kitchen window ov.erlooks
two colourful flower beds and their two
vegetable gardens which are fronted by a
screen of flowers.
"The beds have always been good," says
Margaret's husband, Bill, "but this year
they are the best they've ever been."
Margaret has so many varieties she can
hardly name all of the flowers in her
gardens. She always plants annuals because
it allows her to work up the beds easily in the
spring to- get out all the weeds. With ?
perennials it isn't as easy because You have
to work around them, she says.
She has ageratum, alifium,. flox, snap7
dragon, marigolds of all varieties, geran-
iums, petunias, roses, impatience, dahalias,
cosmos, zinnias, begonias and gladioli. In
the spring there are beds of tulips which are
now replaced with the roses and summer
annuals.
• It usually takes about two weeks to plant.:
,•the beds but this year because of the dry
spring, it wasn't completed for almost two
months. . A •
The farm belonged" to Margaret's parents
and she can rernemer her (*her always had
lots of flowers when she-Wisl growing up.
When Margaret's family of n five were tittle.,
she have the time to care for the beds
and they were dug up and the stones from
the rock garden were piled under the tree in
the front yard. When he two oldest boys
were about the age of 12 she remembers
they came and asked if they cohldn't make
the beds like they used to be, when grandma
had them. The family project has grown
from there.'
Margaret's son, John, does a great deal of
the work in the flower beds and the gardens.
Margaret says she goes out to putter around
in them for a while and then goes into the
house to do something before she comes
out to work away in them again.
During the winter she keeps Colour in her
life by taking her geraniums indoors and
they bloom away in the windows ofthe house
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Margaret Andrew, centre', calla the lovely flower beds on their lawns_
and in their gardens, a family Project. Shown with her husband, BW,
and their daughter, Mary, Margaret says she likes to have a bit of
colour in herlife and enjoys looking out on the flowers from her kitchen
window While,she works. She said the real worker is her ion, John, who
all winter. Winter is also a time to start slips
for the plantwhich will be replaced in. the
beds come spring. She has a hotbed where
she starts plants 'beneath 'glass duringthe
early spring.
The shaded area behind the garage is
planted with impatience, the 'extra plants
which could not be planted in the rock
garden.
Margaret likes to keep a bit of everything
around her because she doesn't travel much.
The farm has two horses, some geese which
swim on the creek, one of them is nesting in
the ferns in the flowerbed behind the house.
They have a goat tied on the back lawn, and
• the household pets include fish, canaries,
budgies, finches and a guinea pig named
Dinah. .
Margaret's • daughter, • Mary, teaches
school in London and her children often
come to school asking if she will take a pet
home to her farm, because they can no
longer keep it in their home in the city,
Dinah came to the farm this vs.ray. Mary
laughs that her parentsfarm is a place for
the family's pets.
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_keeps the beds weeded, works them up in, the spring, and fertilizes
them In the fali. When told it is a shame the gardens cannot be seen
from the road, 'because their house sits in a 'Valley, Margaret replies It
is just as Well because If they were closer to the read, her flowers would:
be covered with dust. [Sentinal Staff Photo]
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'lids rock bid near the creek wbkk runs through• the front yard was a project started by
. Margaret's dangbier, Mary for 4-11. Margaret prefers to plant annuals because it Is easier to
work up the beds: If perennials are planted, you have JO work around them.
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