CONCERNING HARDY PLANTS 35 



Another common error in regard to the hardy gar- 

 den, aided and abetted by Garden Goozle, is that it is 

 easy or even practicable to have every bed in a bloom- 

 ing and decorative condition during the whole season. 

 It is perfectly possible always to have colour and fra- 

 grance in -some part of the garden during the entire 

 season, after the manner of the natural sequence of 

 bloom that passes over the land, each bed in bloom 

 some of the time, but not every bed all of the time. 

 Artifice and not nature alone can produce this, and ar- 

 tifice is too costly a thing for the woman who is her own 

 gardener, even if otherwise desirable. For it should 

 appeal to every one having a grain of garden sense that, 

 if the plants of May and June are to grow and bloom 

 abundantly, those that come to perfection in July and 

 August, if planted in their immediate vicinity, must be 

 overshadowed and dwarfed. The best that can be 

 done is to leave little gaps or lines between the hardy 

 plants, so that gladioli, or some of the quick-growing 

 and really worthy annuals, can be introduced to lend 

 colour to what becomes too severely of the past. 



There is one hardy garden, not far from Boston, 

 one of those where the landscape architect lingers to 

 study the possibilities of the formal side of his art in 

 skilful adjustment of pillar, urn, pergola, and basin, 



