Round the Year in the Garden 



Nothing is more disappointing, or more disastrous to 

 the display, than to find that some unusually fine clump 

 fails to reappear owing to the excessive wet and cold of 

 winter. It is wise, therefore, to take precautions now, 

 and to cover with a heap of ashes or bracken the clumps 

 of Pyrethrum, Scabious, Gaillardia and others that 

 experience has proved to be of doubtful hardiness in 

 one's district. 



Flower Borders of One Colour. The fashion of 

 planting a border with flowers of one colour finds many 

 devotees, but the practice is scarcely to be recommended 

 to those having gardens of limited extent. One is apt, 

 for example, to tire of a white border before the summer 

 is over, unless the garden contains borders of colour, as 

 of blue, pink, or yellow (though the last is scarcely worth 

 planting, for of yellow one tires soonest), and these, of 

 course, necessitate not only the use of a considerable 

 area of ground, but involve much careful scheming. 



Probably the most satisfactory of all borders for the 

 average garden is that in which a full colour scheme is 

 planned, beginning with white, working up through grey, 

 blue, and pink, to rose, yellow, orange, and scarlet. Many 

 charming effects, however, are obtained when planting is 

 practised without regard to strict colour arrangement, 

 providing the plants are in bold, wide groups, and 

 obviously discordant associations are avoided. 



Still another way is open to those who prefer large 

 masses of one colour, by arranging a blue, white, and 

 pink border all in one. One begins with the pale blues, 

 and works up to the deep blues, then follows with the 

 whites, and completes the scheme with groups of pink 

 flowers. The difficulty of grouping large masses of one 

 colour is to find plants that will give a satisfactory and 

 continued display. It is a great mistake to plant in 

 formal groups, those of irregular formation are best. In 

 planting a blue, white, and pink border, for instance, 

 there should not be three well-defined blocks of colour; 



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