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HOME4 - Tho Canadian Champion, Frlday, Juno 9,2000 lanning key to a successful perennial garden: experts By LISA CARTWRIGHT The Champion E xperts and gardeners agree - the key to a beautiful perennial gar- den is in the planning. "Try planning it," said Gay Bryant, a member secretary and director for the Milton Horticultural Society. "It would have been better if I did." Ms Bryant and her husband Jim began planting their garden 13 years ago at their Fourth Line home. She said she did it on a shoe-ttiing bud- get, taking plants from other people's gar- dent and placing them wherever she feit was best. The following year ahe had to dig up moat of the plants because she had put them in the wrong spot or they had grown bigger than expected, she said. Today, the couple's gardens att beauti- fui with flowers and trees bursting with colour and texture. But the work is neyer finished. A garden is neyer complete, said Mary-Deane Crawford, owner of Crawford's Country Gardens in Milton. Its an ongoing project. The ftrst thing that people have to do is to decide the theme of the garden. In a mono-chromatic garden, gardeners pick one colour and plant flowers that bloom in Iight and dark shades of it. With an analogous garden, people pick three colours that ait side-by-side on the colour wheel. Examples oU an analogous garden are flowers that are violet, blue and 800 TI4OUSANDS on pago 5 Photo by GRAHAM PAINE Gay Bryant has boon worklng on tho gardons of hor Fourth Lino homo for tho bat 13 yoara, addlng aomothlng now oach yoar. Horo, sho sits among hor poonbos tI~t ara burstlng wlth bbooma. End your bard water worries You local Culligan Millon dealer, aI 623 Main Sîreel EssI, bas been providing water treat- ment for our area residents for over 30 years. Experience the benefils of soft water with the convernence of efficient, courleous, small-lown service from wilhin your own community. A Culligan waler conditioner makes a big difference in nearly every room of the house. The use of soflened water will estend the life of aIl waler-using appliances - dishwasher, kettle, coffeemaker, hot waler heater, and washing machine. In Ihe laundry, clothes will get cleaner and brighter, afld last longer. You will SAVE MONEY on ail soapa, detergents, ahampoo îoothpaste, and cleaning products - use up to 75% leas. Softened water allows your water heater to operate more efficienlly. and may lower your water heating bih by up to 29%. Pipes will no longer clog up with the accumula- tionof rock-like hard water scale. Conditioned water will benefit your bathroom by preventing lime build-up. making fixtures easier to dean and eliminaling ruaI stains. ltchy 5km problema will also be reduced, and there will bu nu more ring around the tub lu scrub! Drinking water ftlters and Reverse Osmosis syslems are also available - affordable answers to transform water with objeclionable laste, odor, or appearance mb clear, great-lasting drinking water at your fingertips. The Cullar fil- 1er is another alternative, providing filîered water throughout your house, with no filters to change. SALT DELIVERY for aIl makes of softeners is available, canied right into your salI container for your convenience. End you hard water worries! CalI us today, and expenence the Culligan Sofi Water difference. Culilgan Soft Water Serviee, 623 Main Street East, Milton 878-2474