GARDEN NOTES IN 1921 



length of the blooming period must be remarkable, 

 since when the lowest part of the raceme is in full 

 flower, all upper buds are still pale-lavender points; 

 the effect always being of a large Phlox-like head 

 of bloom, though, as I said before, of a grace and 

 lightness unattained by any ordinary Phlox. On 

 that fortunate day when I had my first delectable 

 sight of Plumbago cayensis I was shown, in a 

 charming hillside garden, which everywhere bore 

 the imprint of its owner's personal care, a so- 

 called red valerian, a flower unknown here and 

 but little known in England, growing only on the 

 Isle of Wight. Though a so-called red, it is really 

 a deep and telling rose-pink. The height of the 

 plant is not so great by half as of the white vari- 

 ety seen in gardens old and new, nor is the scent 

 as pronounced as in the old form, but the plant 

 itself is an object of beauty and affords an uncom- 

 monly interesting subject for the border. 



May 15, 1921. 



This spring I have discovered in the borders 

 here a lovely little contemporary and running 

 mate of the Myosotis. It is Anchusa myosotidi- 

 flora, one of the boldest and most eager-looking 

 small flowers that I know. The bloom, precisely 

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