COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



shade. Borage is a lovely blue-flowered plant with gray 

 foliage and quaintly shaped blossoms once much used as 

 a pattern in ladies' needlework and often to be seen woven 

 into the garlands of old samplers or tapestry work. And 

 still we have the violet-blue of Browallia, the lavender-blue 

 of the little blue Woodruff, that creates a delicate film of 

 pale colour unsolicited in many parts of the garden; the 

 blue and yellow and white of the wide-eyed Convolvulus 

 tricolor, the dark violet-blue of Salvia horminium Blue 

 Beard, the various blues of Lobelias, and the inimitable 

 blue of Salvia patens. This plant is, in fact, a perennial, but 

 in our climate must be treated as a tender annual and 

 started indoors in March. 



Other blue flowers of the year are: Lupines, Aconites, 

 Clematis Davidiana, Hyssop, Salvia azurea and S. uli- 

 ginosa, Plumbago Larpentae, Lithospermum prostratum, 

 Echinops Ritro, Eryngium planum, and E. Oliverianum, 

 Pentstemon heterophyllus and P. glabra, Centaurea mon- 

 tana, and Veronica amethystina. 



And while I should most certainly gather all these dear 

 blue flowers into one garden or even into one border, I 

 should plant with them scarlet and buff Tulips, yellow and 

 white Iris, patches of the Spanish Poppy (Papaver rupi- 

 fragum), groups of pale Mulleins and yellow Fig-leaved 

 Hollyhocks, the delicate yellow Meadow Rue (Thalictrum 

 glaucum), Geums, a few orange and scarlet Lilies, Gypso- 

 phila, Valerian, Orange King Snapdragons, pale Calendulas, 

 Torch Lilies, Montbretias, and other plants of like brave 

 colouring. 



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