A DESCRIPTION OF MY GARDEN 99 



Of the several close-growing plants in that part of 

 the garden devoted to the small saxifrages, Sax, 

 Salomoni appeals to me strongly, sending up its pure 

 white flowers two or three on a stem, from a particularly 

 close spiny cushion of hard grey foliage near to this 

 is Sax. rocheliana, with small compact rosettes of leaves, 

 and flattish heads of white flowers. 



In the more shady portions, green hummocks of 

 the mossy section, such as Saxifraga ccespitosa, make 

 the garden very gay, and to illustrate how extremely 

 easy they are to grow, I prepared the photographs 

 seen on page 69 ; the first shows a plant of S. ccespitosa 

 some eight months after planting, while the second 

 illustrates the patch it had formed by the following 

 season, without, in the interval, having received any 

 attention whatever. 



Most striking of all the mossy varieties is 5. Wallacei, 

 sometimes spoken of as S. Camposi, which has decora- 

 tive foliage, considerably larger than most other 

 varieties, while the lovely pure white flowers quite 

 giants by comparison, are strongly hawthorn scented. 

 Here and there between the patches of the white 

 mossy saxifrages, I grow the pink forms, like Rhei, 

 Rhei superba, and Clibrana they make very pleasing 

 variations in the general colour scheme. 



In the few places where I can permit a large plant to 

 remain, Iberis sempervirens makes a brilliant hummock 



