COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



possible, and yet there are degrees of effectiveness in the 

 arrangement even of these ever-satisfying flowers. Two 

 Delphinium pictures in my own garden please me particu- 

 larly just now. A pale Larkspur is massed against the 

 dark framework of the pergola over which showers a 

 fluffy white Rose (Trier). In front of the Delphiniums are 

 some spikes of Yellow Foxglove (Digitalis ambigua), and to 

 the right a group of single buff-coloured Hollyhocks with 

 pink hearts. Again sky-blue Delphiniums rise from a mist 

 of feathery yellow Meadow Rue (Thalictrum glaucum), one 

 of the most delightful of plants, against a background of 

 pink climbing Roses and with a foreground of Baptisia 

 bushes with their fine metallic leafage. 



Of the beauty of Larkspurs and white Lilies much has 

 been written; I have spoken elsewhere of their splendid 

 effect with Herring Lilies (Lilium croceum), and there are two 

 other Lilies that grow freely under ordinary garden condi- 

 tions with which they are delightful. One is L. Hansoni, of 

 waxen texture and pure orange colour lightly flecked, and 

 the other is L. Brownii, warm ivory with pale chocolate ex- 

 terior and bright orange stigmata. 



More use might well be made of the pretty hybrids of 

 Delphinium grandiflorum. These are charming, fluttering 

 things of but eight or ten inches in height that wear the 

 loveliest shades of blue. As they bloom early the first 

 summer from seed they may be treated as annuals, and the 

 pretty blossoms enjoyed until frost. Azure Fairy and Blue 

 Butterfly are well named. Cineraria marks a new type. Its 

 flowers are a darker blue with a white inner circle and they 

 are quite flat and spurless. 



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