Round the Year in the Garden 



blossoming the following season to cut off the foliage 

 while it is still green, though much may be done to 

 keep the bulbs neat by periodically removing the 

 unsightly portions. 



Some few plants, if not actually attractive when 

 out of flower, scarcely detract from the appearance of 

 the border. Chief among them are Flag Iris, Heuchera 

 or Alum root, Potentilla, Geum, Gypsophila, Thalictrum 

 or Meadow Rue, Jacob's Ladder or Polemonium, the old 

 Scarlet Lychnis, Lavender and Rosemary, Spiraea 

 Ulmaria (Meadow Sweet), Pinks and Thrift. Of those 

 that flower later, and are therefore fresh and attractive 

 the greater part of the season, one may name Phlox, 

 Globe Thistle or Echinops, Sea Holly or Eryngium, Tiger 

 Lily (Lilium tigrinum), Japanese Lily (Lilium speciosum)> 

 Gladiolus, Monkshood or Aconitum, Cimicifuga or Snake- 

 root, Helenium, Veronica virginica, Sedum spectabile 

 or Japanese Stonecrop, Sea Lavender (Statice latifolia), 

 and all the autumn flowers, such, for example, as 

 Michaelmas Daisy, Helianthus or Sunflower, Rudbeckia 

 or Coneflower, Artemisia lactiflora or Wormwood, and 

 others. These should be planted among the Lupins, 

 Oriental Poppies, Larkspurs, Pyrethrums, and other 

 early summer blooms, so that the succession of flowers 

 may be general and the untidiness of fading plants be 

 hidden as far as possible. 



Shrubs in the Flower Border. As has been pointed 

 out, it is scarcely possible by one planting alone to have 

 masses of colour for weeks together ; such borders exist 

 only on the artist's canvas or in gardens where, as soon 

 as one prominent group has lost its beauty, it is replaced 

 or hidden by plants grown in pots, or on a reserve border, 

 for the purpose. A further help in preserving the charm 

 and comparative tidiness of the border throughout the 

 season is found in the inclusion of a few shrubs. They 

 are, if not attractive, at least pleasant to look upon 

 when their flowering time has passed. Some of them 



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