The Winning Designs 



would constitute a feature worthy of any garden and 

 if planted on the exquisite lines so often suggested by 

 Miss Jekyll, and of which she says : " To devise these 

 living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems 

 to me the best thing to do in gardening. Whether 

 it is the putting together of two or three kinds of 

 plants, or even of one kind only, in some happy set- 

 ting, or whether it is the ordering of a much larger 

 number of plants, as in a flower border of middle and 

 late summer, the intention is always the same. 

 Whether the arrangement is simple and modest, 

 whether it is obvious or whether it is subtle, whether 

 it is bold and gorgeous, the aim is always to use the 

 plants to the best of one's means and intelligence, so 

 as to form pictures of living beauty." 



Everything that makes for success or failure in such 

 a border lies in its arrangement. It should coi tain 

 no serried ranks of flowers marshalled as though in 

 battle array. The groupings should be informal, 

 light, and free. Colour arrangement should be studied 

 to the extent of getting definite and pleasing combina- 

 tions and eliminating harsh and violent associations. 

 Such a border would of necessity have to be designed 

 for the longest possible flowering period, and whilst 

 the best effects would be obtained by using hardy 

 perennial plants freely, some spaces should be left for 

 spring bulbs and summer or autumn flowering annuals. 



There are two ways in which such a border might be 

 arranged. The first is what is called the Graduated 

 Colour Scheme. It consists of arranging a border 

 exactly on the lines Nature treats all her effects. A 

 majestic mountain, broad at the base, and clothed in 



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