The Happy Garden 



it. One wide grass path runs through the centre 

 of it, leaving on either side a border of about twenty 

 yards long and fifteen deep. Through each of these 

 a narrow crooked path leads you between tall lilies 

 and white foxgloves, and anchusa, and, best of all, 

 delphiniums of every shade of blue into the woods. 

 In the early summer, giant scarlet poppies make 

 a' brilliant show against the deep colour of the 

 pines. At sunset this border is at its best, the 

 gentian blue of the anchusa becoming a thousand 

 times more vivid as the sun catches it before finally 

 dropping behind the hills. The smaller portion of 

 the border, on the left side of the wide grass path, 

 that runs up to meet the carpet of peat and pine 

 needles and moss, is mostly given up to red and 

 orange flowers ; and sweet bergamot and alstrce- 

 merias, lychnis, geums, chelone barbata, gaillardia, 

 gladiolus, brenchleyensis, with the grey foliage of 

 funkia, and the double white arabis and white pinks, 

 make a brave show in July. ... I keep these 

 wide borders for all the very hardy plants, as it is 

 almost impossible to give them individual atten- 

 tion. Phloxes are heavily mulched early in the 

 summer, and left to take care of themselves, and 

 they are not often far behind those planted in the 

 borders on the lawn, which are watered and cos- 

 seted as though they were delicate children. This 



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