FLOWERING TIMES AND PLANS 



the Blue Border terrace. Of course the Garland is be- 

 coming unsightly before the fire-pink of the Dorothy begins 

 to show in any profusion. 



The garden except on the upper terrace, which with Helio- 

 trope, Lobelia, and the climbing Ceanothus keeps to the 

 faint cool blues, untroubled by the efflorescence of the 

 White Pet <which, by the way, has completely eaten 

 out Perle des Rouges) and the very faint pink of the 

 Ivy-Leaf Geraniumsexcept for the upper terrace, the 

 garden, we say, is growing pink. What with the Ver- 

 benas and the Red Roses and the cheery coloured Ivy- 

 Leaf Geranium called Jersey Beauty, in the Dutch garden, 

 and the general ramp of Dorothy everywhere, it is a 

 mass of pink. 



Another year we must have more Penstemons. They 

 are charming things, and as good as they are beautiful. 

 In a garden nothing is beautiful that is not good, which is 

 another facet of its likeness to Paradise. 

 We caress the idea of a border where perennial Gypsophila, 

 large bushes of Monarda, Penstemons and Lavender should 

 group and contrast and delight and rest the eye. 



There is a walk in a wonderful garden not far from here 

 a garden which brings a kind of fainting, despairing envy 

 to the soul of Loki's Grandmother where Lavender and 

 Penstemons make the happiest possible effect. The walk 

 itself is a thing of beauty / through woodland on one side, 

 the border in question runs quite a long way against a 



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