COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



foliage stuck all over with pretty lemon-yellow flower 

 spikes for many weeks, but again it barely raises itself 

 from the ground, sulking unaccountably. It comes easily 

 from seed but is difficult to transplant so should not be 

 disturbed without good reason. 



Two other plants of the season that show the pretty gray 

 and yellow colour arrangement that is most cool and at- 

 tractive looking in the midsummer garden are the yellow 

 Meadow Rue (Thalictrum glaucum) and the Horned 

 Poppy (Glaucium luteum). The former is a tall plant with 

 clusters of small gray rue-like leaves spread out horizontally, 

 and puffs of feathery citron-yellow bloom which appear in 

 late June. The whole plant is charming and is particularly 

 well placed among pale azure Delphiniums. Its foliage 

 remains in good condition after the Delphiniums have been 

 cut down. It is one of the plants having permanent value. 



The Horned Poppy is a bit of an enigma. It is certainly 

 not reliably perennial, nor is it consistently biennial. It is 

 probably a free spirit among flowers — tarrying where it is 

 happy and taking itself off without notice when conditions 

 are not just to its mind. While it stays it is a delightful 

 revelation in silver and gold — very light gray leaves and 

 fragile golden "Poppies" that open only to flutter away but 

 blooming again before we have suffered from its inconstancy. 



In my garden is a bit of border the colour scheme of 

 which is very grateful to the eye this warm Independence 

 day. It lies against the dark arbour that is draped with 

 Roses now past their prime and fading to soft ashen tints. 

 The groundwork of the group is gray — Lyme Grass, 

 Thalictrum glaucum, Lychnis Coronaria alba, and Echinops 



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