Cherry Walk and Lawn 



feet high, with lily-trumpets nine inches to a foot 

 long, hanging all the way up the stem— splendid 

 aliens, whom all countries delight to honour. With 

 them and the tall spears of asphodel by the river 

 I shall be a proud and happy parent. 



Bamboos again to the right of the birches. The 

 border begins on this side of the lawn with good 

 clumps of funkias and megaseas and iris, and 

 spiraeas. It is a shady corner, and these damp- 

 loving plants thrive well here. All the flowers at 

 this end are dark blue : delphiniums, monkshood, 

 and blue thistles, veronicas, perennial cornflower, 

 violas, dark blue cranesbill. Running in and out 

 of these, are deep orange lilies, in large clumps, 

 then a little pale yellow asphodeline, alstrcemeria, 

 gladiolus, the giant mullein, cheiranthus, almost the 

 only yellow flowers admitted to my borders. White 

 follows the yellow : pyrethrums, white iris, corn- 

 flowers, thalictrum, phloxes, and leads to pale 

 pink, gladioli, phloxes, Canterbury bells, pink 

 lupins, not to speak of the pink cranesbill, which 

 grows apace and propagates itself as quickly as the 

 poor in London slums. It creeps out on the lawn 

 and destroys the formalism which should never by 

 any chance be in a herbaceous border. From the 

 pale pinks we come to mauve, and pale blue finishes 

 the scheme. Amongst these are delphiniums, 



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