The Lessons of the Competition 



plans for these they would have been masses of cool 

 grey foliage with lavender, pale blue, the palest of 

 yellow, cream, and pink flowers, with perhaps a little 

 dark purple used as a foil. They would have been 

 planted principally with hardy perennial plants, with 

 spaces left for spring bulbs, to be succeeded by annuals. 

 An example of what plants Miss Leonard would have 

 used for this purpose would have been full of interest, 

 especially as she would be considering the matter from 

 the American point of view. 



One planting plan by Miss I. Grant Brown (repro- 

 duced on page 41) is in many ways excellent. She 

 shows a full appreciation of the fact that it is better to 

 group plants in relation to each other than to use them 

 in serried lines or rigid blocks. Her colour arrange- 

 ment is generally well thought out. Undoubtedly in 

 the actual planting of these borders some provision 

 would be made for prolonging the flowering period by 

 introducing a few spring flowering bulbs and summer 

 and autumn flowering annuals. The edging of 

 Veronica prostrata is very neat when not in flower and 

 brilliant when the flowering period arrives ; an added 

 interest would, however, follow a little more varied 

 edging. There are innumerable dwarf plants that can 

 be used for this purpose that have a longer flowering 

 period. 



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