COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



biennial plant with full spikes of lavender flowers) a few 

 Michaelmas Daisies, and Tritomas. These give a pleasant 

 mingling of lavender, orange, and yellow that is effective 

 against the background of shrubs, and the Michaelmas 

 Daisies and Tritomas tone in finely with the reddening 

 foliage as autumn advances. 



Some fine varieties of Hemerocallis with their periods of 

 bloom are these: 



Pale Yellow. H. citrina, August; H. ochroleuca, July; H. graminea, 

 early June. 



Full Yellow. H. Florham, late June; H. Sovereign, late June; H. flava 

 major, early June; H. Thunbergii, late July; H. Gold Dust, June. 



Apricot Yellow. H. Apricot, June; H. Dr. Regel, early August. 



Orange. H. aurantica major, July; H. Middendorffii, May and June; 

 H. Queen of May, June and July; H. fulva, July and August; H. luteola, 

 July; H. fulva Kwanso, August. 



Orange with Bronze Exterior. H. Dumortieri, May and June; H. Aureole, 

 July. 



The double orange Kwanso Day Lily is very striking 

 and useful and flowers longer and later than any of the 

 others, playing an important part in the rich-hued groups of 

 the late summer. 



The Dalmatian Toadflax (Linaria dalmatica) is a good 

 yellow-flowered plant of midsummer. It is diffuse and 

 spreading in habit and displays a pretty colour scheme of 

 pale yellow and gray. Knowing only too well its hardy 

 relative, the gay Butter-and-eggs of the roadside — and I am 

 constrained to add, of the garden — one is not prepared for 

 the unreliable behaviour of the Dalmatian. Some seasons 

 it thrives well, spreading out into fine masses of glaucous 



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