COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



hardy and while some winters our promising batch of 

 seedlings comes safely through, we may not count upon 

 them. In sunny, sheltered places, in well-drained rather 

 gravelly soil or among rocks it is fairly persistent. 



The common white Flax (Linum perenne album) also is 

 a charming plant. There is a beautiful group in my garden 

 that came without my assistance, where Gypsophila pani- 

 culata tumbles over the top of a low retaining wall and at 

 the wall foot, growing lustily in the path, is a patch of white 

 Flax. The intermingled gray-white and porcelain-white with 

 the delicate greenery of both creates a charming effect. 



Linum monogynum* is another white-flowered Flax; 

 an elegant, sprightly little plant with myriads of round 

 white blossoms continued over a long period. The lum- 

 inous yellow colour and more substantial appearance 

 of Linum flavum are well known. There are few more 

 striking plants for the border edge in well-drained soil 

 with a sunny aspect. It blooms practically all summer, 

 and if one plants with it Campanula carpatica, both the 

 blue and the white sorts, one has a persistently flowering 

 border edge in very pretty colours. 



Linum alpinum and L. salsolides are little sprawling 

 Alpines, blue and pale pink respectively, only suited for a 

 chink between two stones, but the beautiful annual grand- 

 iflorum, the colour of red wine held up to the light, should 

 have a place in every garden. All these Flax flowers are 

 easily raised from seed and all self-sow freely and may 

 safely be left to the wind and their own caprice in the matter 

 of their associations. 



*This plant is not reliably hardy and should be carried over in a frame. 



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