The Happy Garden 



Therefore, one side is rich in arenaria, that lovely 

 green climbing plant that stretches a mossy sheet 

 over stones from which, in spring, rise thousands 

 of little white starry flowers. It grows a-pace, and 

 six inches of it will in a very short time remove all 

 reproach of barrenness from a new rock garden. 

 Six inches was my original stock and now I could 

 give away a yard or two without noticing it. 



Phlox Drummondi vies with the sun-rose in 

 making large cushions on the stones over which 

 they fall luxuriantly. I have seven different kinds, 

 and when in flower they are a sheet of bloom. 

 Aubrietia of many colours, the double arabis, 

 androsace, anemone, potentilla, campanula, 

 Japanese iris, are only a few of the plants that 

 have made themselves so much at home that it 

 is with difficulty that room is found for their more 

 fragile and therefore the more treasured brothers. 

 There is endless charm to be found in the 

 sedums, the azaleas, the tiny rhododendrons, sem- 

 pervivum, the various gentians, and their rival 

 in colour, lithospermum, whose wonderful blue 

 is only the more vivid when hanging over a large 

 stone. At the top of the rock garden giant spiraeas 

 grow, and beneath them is the osmunda fern, 

 revelling in the shade, and, in the spring, while 

 these are still under the ground, bulbs of many 



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