PLANTING THE GARDEN 57 



subsidiary shoulder of the Rock Garden this plant will 

 attract attention all through the season from spring 

 till late autumn throwing up its graceful branches of 

 dazzling white foliage, and as it develops, the outer ones 

 gradually bend downwards, while new ones form in the 

 centre, till it becomes a hemisphere some fourteen inches 

 in diameter. It is a half-shrubby plant and dies down 

 in the winter, breaking again from the old wood. If 

 it can be arranged to silhouette this against a back- 

 ground of dark or deep green foliage, the effect is still 

 further heightened. 



Another excellent silvery foliaged subject is that tiny 

 relative of our common groundsel, Senecio incanus 

 v. Persoonii, only three to four ins. across the rosette 

 surmounted, in the summer, with pretty yellow flowers. 



This plant thrives with me in a position fully exposed 

 to the sun and in stony soil, largely mixed with old 

 mortar. Its chief requirement appears to be protection 

 from overhead wet, especially in the winter, and as 

 the old leaves die, to remove them, as otherwise they 

 are apt to set up mildew about the plant. It is possible 

 by the use of these and similar plants to produce a 

 decorative effect in the garden, even when the chief 

 flush of the flowering time has passed. 



Owing to the way in which these mountain plants 

 have adapted themselves, so as to make the utmost 

 of a short season available to many of them, it follows 



