COLOUR BORDERS 75 



in Wales. The herbaceous garden was extensive and, as 

 the gardener said, " was planted solely for colour effect." 

 I stood at one end and looking right down the border 

 I could not help giving a gasp of pleasure. The border 

 began with white, then colours appeared in the following 

 order : Light Pink, Rose, Crimson, Scarlet, Bright Orange, 

 Yellow, Lilac, Purple, Violet, Intense Blue, Sky Blue, and 

 the palest Yellow. I remarked to the gardener that it was 

 far and away the best colour border I had seen, and that 

 it must have taken some thought to plan it. " You are 

 right there, sir," he replied. " I could hardly have done 

 it alone, for colours are not easy things to make agree. 

 But an artist came down from London to stay at the Man- 

 sion, and he seemed to know just what would go together. 

 He was up in colours, and could tell me all about them." 



My readers who have a desire to plant a big colour border 

 should try the arrangement given above. I do not think 

 they will be disappointed. 



Single- Colour Borders : These are becoming very 

 popular in large gardens. Instead of a border containing 

 many colours arranged in harmony, a single colour is 

 assigned to each border. Thus one border may be devoted 

 entirely to blue, another to yellow, another to red flowers 

 and so on. Borders should usually be small where this 

 plan is adopted, for of necessity there are not great 

 quantities of plants with flowers of a uniform colour to 

 choose from. There are, of course, numerous shades of 

 all colours, but that is not quite what is wanted. It is 

 better to have small borders and keep strictly to one 

 distinct shade of colour in each, than to arrange larger 

 borders containing three or four shades. 



