84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 13, 1997
All Gardens
Great & Small
by
York Co,
Horticultural Agent
Tom Becker ,
NEW VARIETIES FOR 1998
Gardeners are looking for new
plants every year. Here are new
flowers and vegetables that are
featured in 1998 mail order seed
catalogs, seed packets, or as bed
ding plants at garden centers. This
is the first in a series.
Aquilegia Flabellata “Cameo”
Series. Five-inch (13 cm)
“Cameo” is delightful for flow
ering in 4-inch (10 cm) pots and
then planting out as a hilly hardy
perennial. Cameo’s silver-green,
compact foliage adds beauty to the
garden when not in bloom. Four
separate colors and a mix.
Begonia "Eureka” is a new,
more vigorous series, designed for
superior garden performance, and
Outdoor
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A newcomer to railroad garden
ing, Nancy Robinson, who lives at
Long Level, along the Susquehan
na River, explains that she got
started when she saw the society’s
display during the York Area Gar
den Show held at the York Fair
grounds in February.
She was put in
touch with 801 l who
helped her to get
started through
advice and reading
material. “I just
loved it I went crazy
over it,” Robinson
said.
She describes her
railroad garden as
“little because I’m
just starting out,”
indicating that she
too will probably
expand as she con
tinues the hobby.
Her tracks are
over river stone she
brought up from her
boat landing in addi
tion to other material
she used to make
stable.
A friend built her
a schoolhouse, a log
cabin, a railroad sta
tion, and a train sta
tion. “He’s working
on my farm now,”
she added. “He
builds them all for
me and I paint
them.”
Her husband, Pal
mer Robinson, at
first dismissed her
plans, but “he got
into it and now he’s
my chief engineer
and electrician.”
He’s an electronics
lab technician with
York International.
available in a full range of both
green and bronze leaf colors.
Plants of Eureka fill beds with col
or more fully and more quickly.
The extra vigor helps them thrive
in tough weather, heat and
humidity, and they perform equal
ly well in sun and shade. Bronze
leaved rose.
Begonia Hortcnsis “Inferno
Series.” An interspecific cross has
resulted in a very versatile Be
gonia series, ideal as a bedding
plant in mass plantings for the
landscape as well as production
for hanging baskets and large con
tainers. New to the series is a
green-leaf rose, white and pink
and a bronze-leaf rose.
Begonia “Super Olympia” Ser-
Gardens
“We’re kind of at a stand still,”
she said, "because I had gotten
Thomas the Tank Engine I just
love Thomas and his transfor
mer went bad, now I’m waiting
for his transformer to come back,”
she said.
“Mine’s not ready for an open
house, but I love to go around to
see the others,” she said.
ies FI Hybrid. The Olympia™
Series has earned the reputation
for superior greenhouse and gar
den performance. Olympia is a
proven performer in the home gar
den and for the landscape profes
sional. Super Olympias have 4 se
parate colors and a “mix,” a
brighter red, a striking new rose;
and a beautiful pink, and white.
All this on earlier, more uniform
plants with larger flowers.
Beilis “Galaxy” flowers quick
ly in autumn and can be used as a
fall bedding plant along with pan
sy, or flowering kale/cabbage. It
has a pretty semi-double pompon
ette flower shape with a yellow
heart, uniform with compact habit,
and will flower continuously all
winter in mild areas. In colder
areas, it will go dormant and flow
er again in spring. “Galaxy Red.”
Cynoglossum Amabile “Jeans.”
The colors of the ’9os, stone
washed denim-blue. Rich flow
ering borderplant of approximate
ly 35 cm that keeps ornamental
value after flowering for its seed
pods turn from green to purple.
This Cynoglossum is an excellent
choice for trendy near-natural
plantings.
Dianthus “Floral Lace Light
Pink,” a light rose pink, and “Flor
al Lace True Rose,” a deeper rose
shade, feature the largest flowers
of their type, with lacy, serrated
edges. Both of these elegant new
varieties are extremely heat-toler
ant.
Felicia “Sprint Merchen” from
the same family as the well known
“Blue Dairy,” Felicia heterophyl
la. Spring Merchen is a dwart,
heavily branching plant, especial
ly is sown in the auttumn. The col
or is predominantly sky blue with
a small percentage of pink, rose
and purple.
Fuchsia Hybrid “Fete Floral” is
a rich and free-flowering fuchsia
easily raised from seed. The plant
habit is upright and branching
stems that become woody with
age. The many pendulous blooms
Old Iron Club
Plans Antique Days
The Ickesburg Fire Company
and the Perry County Old Iron
Club present the fifth Annual
Antique Days, Friday, October 3
through Sunday, October 5. at the
carnival grounds located behind
the firehouse in Ickesburg.
The event will begin Friday at
noon with tractor registration. The
feature tractor for this year is John
Deere. At 3 p.m. the food stands
will open.
New for 1997 is a limited
edition postcard which you will be
able to obtain a cancellation mark
at the show grounds. Only 500 of
these cards were printed.
Saturday kicks off at 9 a.m.
when the flea market, craft area,
and all displays of working equip
ment will open. The working dis
plays consist of antique tractors
and automobiles, hit and miss en
gines, blacksmithing, broom mak
ing, threshing of grain, baling
straw, sawmill, and hammermill.
The Fall Harvest Parade will
step off at 1 p.m. and will feature
marching units, floats, antique
automobiles, and antique farm
machinery. A pedal tractor pull
competition is scheduled to be
held at 3 p.m. This competition is
open to anyone between the ages
of three and 103 and is bound to
'/uHeRIMS HCMTH KICK'
are in clusters together in
crowded, terminal racemes of a
bright red color. They are fol
lowed by attractive deep purple
berries.
be a fun event to come out and
participate in. If you’re not inter
ested in the pedal pulls, you can
enjoy a BBQ chicken dinner
which will also be available at 3
p.m.
Entertainment is scheduled to
take to the bandstand from 5 to 8
p.m. After the entertainment is
finished, the sky will be filled with
a fabulous fireworks display at 8
p.m.
Sunday begins with a com
munity worship service at 8:30
a.m. in the firehouse with 9:30
marking the opening of the flea
market and craft area along with
the display of working equipment
A pig roast will be the main at
traction for the lunch crowd. The
roast will be served starting at
noon. Last chance to compete in
the pedal tractor pull competition
will be at 1 p.m. The horse pulls
will begin at 2 p.m. and will wrap
up the events for the show.
No charge for parking and there
is no fee for admission. Come to
Ickesburg, Millerstown exit of
22-322, follow Rt. 17 West. For
more information, contact one of
the following show officials: Ler
oy Fleisher (717) 582-4973 or
Rich Heffner (717) 582-7423.