CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Foreword ix 



The Plan of My Garden xiv 



CHAPTER 



I. Colour in the Garden: A Confession of Faith 3 



II. The Problem of the Bare Places .... 19 



III. The Colour of the Young Year .... 39 



IV. Tulips and Blossoms 57 



V. Flowers o' Grace 75 



VI. Impressions of a June Morning .... 93 



VII. Rose Colour 115 



VIII. Midsummer Blue 131 



IX. Flowers of Light 149 



X. Colour by the Waterside 165 



XI. The Pool in the Garden 187 



XII. White Flowers in the Night Garden ... 197 



XIII. Colour for the Shady Border 211 



XIV. Magenta the Maligned 223 



XV. The Phloxes 239 



XVI. August Compositions 255 



XVII. A Word for Coloured Foliage 271 



XVIII. Bedding Out . . 287 



XIX. Michaelmas Daisies 301 



XX. This Side the Snows 317 



XXI. Familiar Plant Names — a Digression. . . 335 



Latin and English Plant Names 351 



Periods of Flowering 387 



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