ii8 ROCK GARDENS 



of rock plants, will prove a very attractive 

 addition to the landscape. 



But it is not only as a support, or retaining 

 wall, as it might more correctly be called, 

 that a wall garden can be made ; for by build- 

 ing what is known as a dry wall (which is in 

 fact a wall without mortar), a very effective 

 division can be made in a garden or elsewhere, 

 which can soon be turned into a home for rock 

 and alpine plants. Nor is it only in walls 

 built specially for the purpose of growing this 

 type of plant that they can be cultivated. Many 

 old walls — the older the better — which are now 

 but an eyesore, can with very little care and 

 trouble be converted into a veritable garden 

 that for many months of the year will be a 

 blaze of colour. Unlike most other gardens, 

 these, when once properly established, will 

 practically look after themselves and require 

 but httle further attention. 



It will surprise many people that not only 

 will they be able to grow a great variety of 

 plants in the wall garden, but they will be 

 able to cultivate there, with comparative ease, 

 some kinds acknowledged to be amongst the 



