4 o WALL AND WATER GARDENS 



for a sunny wall ; and another, not exactly showy but 

 neat and shrub-like and of considerable interest, well 

 worthy of a warm place, is the Wood Sage (Teucrium 

 Scorodonia). 



Another charming wild plant for sunny joints and 

 places on a level with the eye, or for such wall-tops as 

 would be only as high as eye level, is the Sheep's 

 Scabious (Jasione montana) neat and pretty, and 

 worthy of cultivation on wall or dry rock-garden, 

 where the little plants, each with its large flower- 

 head, can be grouped rather more closely than in the 

 heathy wastes where they are generally in a thin 

 sprinkle among short grass. Another plant for wall- 

 top, growing willingly in any soil though preferring 

 lime, is the yellow Rock Rose (Helianthemum vulgare], 

 common on sunny banks in chalk districts, and one 

 of the few species (the others rare or local) that 

 are the representatives of the large Cistus tribe of 

 Southern Europe. One more chalk-loving plant 

 should also be in the sunny wall, Reseda lutea, the 

 Wild Mignonette ; tall, graceful, and sweet scented. 

 It is best sown in the wall if seed can be obtained. 



There are still some native plants for the warm wall 

 of the succulent class. The Houseleek, so frequent on 

 the roof of the cottage outhouse ; the tall and stout 

 Sedum Telephium, the Live-Long of old English 

 naming (for a spray of it in a room without water 

 will live a month almost unchanged) ; and the smaller 

 Stonecrops, 5. anglicum, S. album, and 5. acre. 



There are still to be named for a wild wall in a cool 

 shady place some of our small wood plants ; indeed, 



