COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



with all its contemporaries, especially with the bright 

 purple and lavender Phloxes and Aubrietias. Alyssum 

 Silver Queen is said to wear the same soft colour, and seed 

 of this kind is to be had in this country, but, while I have a 

 sturdy colony of seedlings in the nursery, I have not yet 

 seen it in flower. 



The little Hedge Mustard or Fairy Wallflower (Erysimum 

 rupestre, syn. pulchellum) provides us with more yellow 

 treasure for this season. It, too, is a trifle ascid in its colour, 

 but it is so small and pretty and has so wild and sweet a 

 fragrance that we would not be without it, and are pleased 

 indeed when it takes possession of a vacant cranny in the 

 steps or walls and spreads its fine dark mat of foliage. It 

 enjoys a stone or two to trail over but it will thrive willingly 

 in the ordinary sunny border if the soil is not too heavy. It 

 is a nice companion for the silvery lavender Phlox called 

 G. F. Wilson, or if thickly set about with the bulbs of Grape 

 Hyacinth it creates as pretty an edging as one would wish 

 to see. 



This spring there is a delightful bit of blue and gold 

 planting in my garden — a blue and gold carpet that spreads 

 back beneath the Lilac bushes in the angle of the high wall, 

 woven of the Grape Hyacinth called Heavenly Blue and 

 the little wild yellow Tulip, T. sylvestris, so full of grace 

 and gracious sweetness. The small bulbs are closely 

 planted, but here and there among them are set tufts of the 

 baby Meadow Rue (Thalictrum minor) that grows only six 

 inches tall, and spreads about its delicate greenery after 

 the spring blossoms are past. In another angle of the garden 

 a pretty composition in yellow and lavender bespeaks 



