A DESCRIPTION OF MY GARDEN 109 



many Alpine Pinks, of " going off " without any 

 apparent reason. 



This plant seems to delight in gritty loam to which 

 old mortar has been added, and the position, though 

 fully exposed to the sun, should be one where the roots 

 can find a moist medium through which they can run. 

 As with D. alpinus, it is much better to err on the side 

 of poor soil, since otherwise, more leaves than flowers 

 may be the result. 



Down some steep face of rock, exposed to full sun, 

 that lovely Androsace, lanuginosa, is now in full 

 flower, throwing up its primula-like trusses of pink 

 blossoms, from its avalanche of silvery growths. It 

 revels in such a position, especially if the soil is very 

 gritty, as the stone over which it trails keeps its foliage 

 clean and dry. 



In the bog garden Iris Kcempferi is opening its huge 

 clematis-like flowers, though with me not too freely. 

 The self-coloured varieties appear to me to be 

 particularly lovely. Near to the Iris is Astilbe japonica 

 v. Peach-blossom, with its waving masses of minute 

 pink flowers, and as a carpet for it, surfacing the most 

 peaty soil, the glorious blossoms of Mimulus cupreus v. 

 Brilliant. 



In that part of the garden devoted to the choicer 

 Saxifrages, where the soil is very free, and also in the 

 moraine, Erodium corsicum is now in full blossom. 



