IRISH GARDENING 



VOLUME XIV 



No. i66 



Editor-J- W. Besant 



A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE 



ADVANCEMENT OF HORTICULTURE AND 



ARBORICULTTJRE IN IRELAND 



DECEMBER 

 1919 



A Late Autumn Nook in the Garden* 



By .MURKAY floRXJIiRoOK 



GAkDgN 



Amaraxthr's " note on autumn effects in 

 tlie September number of Irish CrARDEXiNci 

 (p. 138) caused me, in mid-October, to visit 

 a little special " autumn nook " that I made 

 in my Rock (larden a couple of years ago. 



colour after the fjlory of the Rock Garden had 

 departed. It had to be a sunny nook, and it 

 could not be very extensive. I tried the experi- 

 ment anyhow, and it has proved most success- 

 ful. Of c-ourst', many of the plants in the nook 



There is no use disguising the fact that the Rock 

 Garden ceases to be generally effective as soon 

 as the late summer Oampamila bloom is 

 over. 



No doubt for a month or two longer isolated 

 plants make a brave display, but, as a rule, 

 these only tend to accentuate the past glories 

 of their neighbours. It occurred to me that it 

 might be worth while collecting into one little 

 nook such plants ns might be likeh" to give one 



are not " alpines." A friend once told me 

 that he classed as " Alpines " " anything that 

 did not look out of place on his rockery," and, 

 judging from what one sees growing in modern 

 Rock Gardens, there appear to be many who 

 agree with him. 



In m}' own case I did not, in this instance, 

 confine myself in any way. I simply went 

 round my garden with a trowel, and dug up any 

 plant that I thought might suit my purpose. 



