Some following suggestions are taken from a garden at Harrow Weald, 

 Autumn and many more will be found in the Winter article which follows, 

 effects Helenium striatum, with its yellow flowers splashed with 



red is uninteresting as a single plant in a border, but massed 

 near a purple Filbert or Prunus the effect is magnificent or a 

 calmer colour scheme is given by grouping it with pale Michael- 

 mas Daisies against a background of green and white plants. 



Salvias both blue and red are most useful at this time. S. 

 patens, the deep Gentian blue one, looks well in a clump against 

 the handsome foliage and white flowers of Nicotiana sylvestris. 

 S. Pitcheri is of a softer, more lovely blue than the above with 

 sprays of small flowers it blooms rather late for the garden but 

 can be potted up and grown on in the greenhouse. There 

 are several red kinds, such as S. coccinea and splendent well 

 worth having; I am uncertain of the name of the one we 

 grow but it makes good bushes three feet high and gives a 

 glowing mass of colour till late in November. The flower spike 

 is of two distinct reds, crimson and scarlet, which adds very 

 much to the richness of the effect. 



The flower spikes of Hydrangea paniculata are now a soft 

 flesh pink, and look well thrown out by Berberis purpurea 

 the colour of a purple plum with the bloom on and above 

 these might be the bright scarlet of Quercus coccinea superba. 

 This Oak keeps its brilliant foliage till February, the commoner 

 Quercus coccinea is never so brilliant, and is over much more 

 quickly. 



Prunus sinensis which bears in Spring clusters of double 

 white or rose coloured flowers, is now a wonderful soft copper 

 pink almost impossible to describe, and delightful standing by 

 itself relieved only by stretches of lawn. 



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