COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



flower and die the next. Of these the most important are 

 Foxgloves, Canterbury Bells, Anchusas, Clary, Honesty, 

 Mulleins, Chimney Bellflowers, and some Evening Primroses. 

 All these we desire to plant with a lavish hand, but we are 

 again faced by the problem of what to do with the broad 

 spaces they leave bereft when their day is past. 



I plant biennials in two ways. Perhaps the more satisfac- 

 tory is in long narrow drifts, running between groups of plants 

 of permanently fine foliage or later flowering, so that when 

 the Foxgloves or Canterbury Bells are past, the broadening 

 out of the plants behind and before them will fill the space and 

 we are not aware of our loss. 



This, too, in the main, is the way in which we meet the 

 defection of Delphiniums, Hollyhocks, Globe Thistles, and 

 others that grow up tall and beautiful but must be igno- 

 miniously cut to the ground after flowering. 



Some plants of fine and lasting foliage that may be used 

 in screening biennials and others of the disappearing habit 

 are: 



Baptisia australis Ruta graveolens 



Baptisia tinctoria Elymus arenarius 



Lythrum Salicaria Funkia subcordata 



Galega officinalis Funkia Fortunei 



Michaelmas Daisies Achillea filipendulina 



Flag Irises in variety Hemerocallis in variety 



Artemisia abrotanum Thalictrum in variety 



Helenium autumnale Phlox paniculata 

 Helianthus multiflorus fl. pi. Eupatorium coelestinum 



Dictamnus albus Cimicifuga simplex 



Another way is to set them in broad groups and interplant 

 with plants of spreading habit and long flowering. Many 



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