CHAPTER XII 



Jerusalem Sage 

 Phlox 



May Apple 



Flowers for Shade and Sunshine 



Flowers fot the Shaded Garden 



Name Description 



Wood Sorrel Oxalis enneaphylla. A small native plant, with pretty 



leaves and sweet-scented white blossom. Quite hardy. 

 5 inches 



Phlomis fruticosa. Almost a shrub, bearing effective 

 yellow flowers. Phlomis russelliana, a larger bloomer, 

 is also suitable. Height of each, 2 ft. 



Most of the varieties of late-blooming "Phloxes can flower 

 without sunshine, and offer brilliant scarlet, rose, 

 carmine, mauve, salmon, or white trusses. The 

 summer Phloxes are admirable also if the taller kinds 

 are chosen 



Podophyllum Emodi succeeds best in rockery nooks, 

 where the green marbled foliage clusters charmingly ; 

 the flowers are white, and followed by fine red fruits. 



Jacob's Ladder The common form, Polemonium cceruleum, will blossom 



freely, and the leaves are as pretty as ferns. 1| to 2 ft. 



Giant Knot Weed Polygonum sachalinense is a robust plant producing white 

 florescence of considerable value to the garden land- 

 scape. 6 ft. 



Lungwort There are few borders, whether in town or country, where 



Pulmonaria mollis will not thrive. The flowers are 

 mingled ultramarine blue and rose, the leaves beauti- 

 fully spotted with cream. 9 inches 



Giant Daisy Pyrethrum uliginosum. Masses of large white flowers 



with centre discs of velvety pale green. Grand for 

 gathering in late autumn, and perfectly hardy. 4 to 

 5 ft. 



Double Buttercup Eanunculus speciosus has double golden flowers of fine 

 size, and spreads like a weed in rich moist borders. 

 1ft. 



Kodgers' Saxifrage Rodgersia podophylla is one of the best ornaments fori 

 shaded beds, but requires peat in the soil. The flores- 

 cence comes in large heads, and is white ; the foliage 

 is a beautiful bronze. 2 ft. 



Sage Sal via ringens is a semi- shrubby variety with blue and 



white blossom ; flowers freely on a north border. 2 ft. 



Bloodroot Sauguinaria canadensis succeeds under deciduous small 



trees, such as Pmnus Pissardi ; the rounded foliage is 

 a shining blue green, the flowers white and star- 

 shaped. 6 inches 



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