172 PLANNING AND PLANTING 



PLANTS FOR EMBANKMENTS AND 

 TERRACES 



AN embankment or terrace is often viewed as 

 a real planting problem whereas it is a riddle 

 easily solved if one goes about it in the right way, 

 and chooses suitable subjects for planting. 



Especially where the slope is long and steep, it 

 is a difficult matter to grow grass, and if it does 

 grow in a sort of half-hearted way, the sun 

 scorches it and the grass turns yellow because of 

 the lack of moisture, unless perchance one goes to 

 the bother of watering the place copiously with the 

 hose each summer day. 



Having established a stand of grass in such a 

 location, one requires the strength of a giant to 

 guide a lawn mower, and will also need to have 

 the feet of a Rocky Mountain goat. 



But we need not despair, for the problem may 

 be solved, the burden of caring for the slope done 

 away with, and the place turned into a spot of 

 real and enduring beauty. 



Mention is made several times in this volume of 

 the Phlox sublata or mountain pink, but we will 

 have to bring it in here again as a fitting subject 

 once more. 



Catch a glimpse of some rocky, almost barren 



