I. WILD GARDEN NOTES 



THE Woodland effect, illustrated, which I found in a friend's Nature's 

 garden at Saltwood, reminds one of the wealth of colour Gardens 

 which Nature bestows on many a wild spot, and of the 

 good purpose to which a wise gardener may turn such natural 

 advantages, not clearing ruthlessly away as common, the treasures 

 he already possesses, but adding to them other suitable flowers. 



In Nature's pictures it should be remembered that, as a 

 rule, the most effective are those where one flower is spread with 

 a lavish hand, or one or two of harmonious colouring are grouped 

 together. One recalls the effect made by sheets of Primroses or 

 Bluebells, which appear with miraculous speed where woods 

 have been thinned, or of woody slopes where a mauve haze of 

 Cuckoo Flower seems to linger over the Primroses, or where the 

 Bluebells are dappled with the white Onion. 



Such effects as these need space, but the same scheme may 

 be carried out in a small way, and simple groups of one flower 

 be planted in the Wild Garden in as large masses as possible ; 

 or if additions are made to an existing effect, Nature's example 

 may be copied, and the variety and colour of the plants be 

 limited. 



In this Kent wood it was a happy thought to add 

 the sweet scented Pheasant Eye Narcissus to the rosy 

 patches of Campion the late N. Poeticus must be used as 

 the other varieties of Narcissus are too early. If one is 

 not fortunate enough to possess such a wealth of wild 

 flowers, they may sometimes be easily introduced, and many 



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