COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



Coral Bells (Heuchera) next occurs to me as a flower 

 of grace. The slender stems set with tiny flowers — pink, 

 blush, cream, coral, scarlet, flame — rise from a tuft of 

 beautiful leafage, ornamental enough in itself and often 

 flushed with deeper colour. The flower spikes continue 

 to develop for weeks during the late spring and summer, 

 and wherever the groups of Heuchera are set a light and 

 graceful effect is secured. There are many fine sorts of 

 recent introduction, all superior to the old sanguinia — an 

 uncertain bloomer — that flower for several months. Of 

 these are: Mignonette, deep rose; Pluie de Feu, flame 

 scarlet; Rosamund, coral pink; Pink Beauty, a charming 

 shade; Mousquetaire, rose-scarlet; Virginale, cream; and 

 Flambeau, scarlet. The varieties Cascade and Richard- 

 sonii have richly flushed foliage that makes them useful 

 for border edges or for planting at the foot of low shrubs 

 with Saxifraga cordifolia. Heucheras* do not seed them- 

 selves in my garden but come readily from hand-sown seed 

 and spread rapidly from the root. They are almost as ever- 

 harmonious as the Flax flowers and should be used freely 

 about the borders wherever a light and graceful effect is 

 desired. White ones planted among the stout elegans 

 Lilies relieve their heaviness and soften their scarlet glare; 

 pink ones reflect delightfully the glow of Evening Primroses; 

 scarlet ones are pretty behind mats of trailing white and 

 gray Cerastium, or standing among clumps of slim Siberian 

 Irises, themselves veritable plants of grace. 



Another plant giving this airy and graceful effect is the 

 old-fashioned Garden Heliotrope (Valeriana officinalis). It 



*Heucheras should be divided every year or to keep them in good blossoming form. 



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