My Garden in Spring 



bulbosum is a very good variegated grass, but the whitest 

 and most effective of all dwarf ones is Molinia coerulea, 

 fol. var.; it grows near the stepping-stones with Funkia 

 undulata (also fol. var.) for a neighbour, and the two are 

 about as pretty as any variegated plants I know. In 

 earliest Spring I get an effect of blue among these silver 

 things from Hepaticas, Pulmonaria Mawson's variety, 

 Scilla bifolia, Chionodoxa sardensis, and a few other things 

 of lowly habits, and later in the season these are replaced 

 by Violas, especially forms of V. gracilis, and deep purple 

 bedding Violas, as of course the blue groundwork has to 

 disappear before the lilac Tulips claim the field. To take 

 their places later still there are other flowering plants 

 hiding among them, but that is another story, or rather 

 a chapter of another volume, for this book must end with 

 the commencement of Summer. 





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