COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



Some flowers fine in association with Delphiniums are 

 yellow and creamy Mulleins, buff and pink Hollyhocks, 

 Anthemis tinctoria, the Evening Primroses, Lemon Lilies- 

 late flowering — Papaver rupif ragum with the dwarf Larkspurs, 

 buff and flame coloured Snapdragons and Calendulas. And 

 of course it is always to be remembered that preparation 

 must be made for the time when the Delphiniums shall be 

 cut down by planting Phlox, Baptisia, or some other reliably 

 permanent plant in front of them. 



Blue and yellow is always a pleasant combination. To- 

 day, June 28th, in my garden the following are very pretty: 

 Bluish-violet Canterbury Bells and yellow Foxgloves; Even- 

 ing Primrose (Oenothera fruticosa) and Veronica incana; 

 California Poppies and Salvia Bluebeard; Peach-leaved 

 Campanulas and Linaria dalmatica; Nigella Miss Jekyl 

 and yellow Snapdragons, self-sown. 



I have before spoken of the cool beauty of the Cam- 

 panulas. Theirs is an indispensable family in the midsummer 

 garden. Beginning with the wee C. pusilla, that in lieu of a 

 rock garden we grow in the joints of the steps, up to the 

 towering C. pyramidalis, I enjoy all that I know in one sort of 

 position or another. Even the rather weedy sorts like C. 

 trachelium, C. grandis, and C. rapunculoides when grown in 

 semi-wild places create fine stretches of clean, cool colour. 



The Carpathian Hairbell (Campanula carpatica) is a 

 pretty and useful plant for the front of the border, blooming 

 from July until October. There are several very good 

 forms of this; White Star is an improvement upon the 

 ordinary sort, having saucer-shaped blossoms. C. carpatica 

 coelestina wears a peculiarly soft shade of blue. 



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