COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



Stachys lanata and Valerian they are among the loveliest of 

 early June's pictures. 



The scarlet Geums, Mrs. Bradshaw and Glory of Stutt- 

 gart, are as brilliant as the Poppies in colour and may 

 have their feet carpeted with purple and lavender Horned 

 Violets (Viola cornuta), and be set about with sky-blue 

 Flax, Nepeta, white and lavender Iris, or Peach-leaved 

 Bellflowers with which they will live amicably. As the 

 Geums flower nearly all summer, thought must be taken of 

 their later companions. I grow them in a neighbourhood 

 where cool blues generally prevail. Geum Heldreichii is 

 dwarfer and flowers in May. It creates a gay picture set 

 among groups of white Tulips and patches of lavender 

 Creeping Phlox. 



A turn of the way brings us to a border tricked out in those 

 delightful colours that Mrs. Earl notes are all named for flow- 

 ers: lavender, mauve (Mallow) pink, rose, lilac, orchid, violet, 

 and heliotrope. This is an exquisite bit of border. Its foun- 

 dation is of the newer Lupines — Blue Cloud, Eastern Queen, 

 Enchantress, Beauty, Rosy Gem, Brightness, Excelsior — 

 that show such fine blendingsof the colours before mentioned, 

 and few plants of June are so beautiful as these. With 

 them in this border are patches of Rose-pink Pyrethrums, 

 Iris Blue King, deep purple Columbines, Fraxinella, the 

 charming lavender-flowered Meadow Rue (Thalictrum 

 aquilegifolium) ; pink and lavender CanterburyBells,and Ger- 

 man Irises in the pinky-mauve shades; along the edges of 

 the border, in patches and trails of soft colour, are Nepeta 

 Mussini, Dicentra eximia, Stachys lanata, and Saponaria 

 ocymoides, with an occasional tuft of the bright little Mule 



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