COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



nearly all grow naturally in full sunshine; those found in 

 shaded places show usually a quite greenish tint as in the 

 Yellow Aconite (Aconitum pyrenaicum) and the Winter 

 Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis). 



As I have said, there are yellow flowers in plenty for all 

 the gardening season, but in this chapter I wish to speak of 

 a few that bloom at midsummer — that is from late June 

 through July — a period which is a difficult one. 



Among the most lovely and useful of yellow flowers are 

 the Day Lilies (Hemerocallis). Their colour is very pure 

 and fine, and runs the scale from mild lemon colour to 

 strong fuscous orange. The flowering season of the different 

 varieties covers a period of nearly three months, and few 

 plants grow with such hearty good will in all sorts of posi- 

 tions, while none, known to me, are so free from disabilities 

 of any kind, or the attacks of insects. Yet I seldom see any 

 save the common Lemon Lily (Hemerocallis flava) made any 

 great use of in gardens, and this, though truly lovely, is 

 usually relegated to out-of-the-way places where more 

 capricious things have scorned to grow. The Orange Day 

 Lily (Hemerocallis fulva) we commonly see decorating the 

 roadside near to some old garden, but its colour is magnifi- 

 cent and it is well worth a place within the garden. 



These Day Lilies are particularly effective used as a base 

 planting for spring-flowering shrubs. Their blossoming 

 does not begin until that of the shrubs is past, when, if the 

 different varieties have been used, they will keep the 

 border bright until well into August. Among the Hemero- 

 callis I should plant a few clumps of Campanula lactiflora 

 and C. latifolia, Salvia Sclaria or Clary (an old-fashioned 



