138 MY GROWING GARDEN 



Those who want to obtain this buddlea will 

 find it offered by nurserymen as B. variabilis 

 magnified. It likes the sun also, and planted close 

 to tall shrubs, or at the edge of a border where it 

 has room to spread, it is a fine thing in its season, 

 in which there are none too many plants blooming. 

 I am particular about room for it; a diameter of 

 six feet the second year is not unusual. In fact, I 

 planted one according to the size of its roots, and 

 by midsummer it had, as I have previously noted, 

 completely covered from sight two abelias, about 

 three feet away ! 



The perennial gaillardias do much for the 

 August flower show, for they keep up the blooming 

 begun many weeks ago, and they are bright and 

 showy in their brilliance of red and yellow. To 

 freely cut the flowers, which last well in water, is 

 to assure more and more of them. As a contrast 

 in August, consider the sweet white "day lily," 

 called Funkia subcordata in the catalogues. Its 

 fine clusters are most lasting in partial shade. 



Amongst annual flowers there are several that 

 enjoy August. It is in the heat of this month 

 that the lowly portulaca flourishes, for no matter 

 what one may do, the ground must be hot before 

 it will germinate, grow and bloom. It revels in the 

 full sun, and as I used it one season at Breeze 



