COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



Of hybrid Mulleins there are a number in various fine 

 colours. One of the best is Miss Willmott, soft ivory 

 white; A. M. Burnie is a charming shade of yellowish 

 apricot; Harkness Hybrid is bronze and yellow; and New 

 Departure is reddish bronze. 



For small gardens there are no prettier hardy plants than 

 the varieties of Verbascum phoeniceum that grow only 

 three feet tall and show many pretty tones of rose and 

 violet, lilac and white in the flowers. 



No plants of the whole summer through are more pic- 

 turesque than the Mulleins. They are suited to formal or 

 natural planting, giving a strong fine line wherever they are 

 used. In the garden they are best at the back of the 

 borders, but in waste places they may stand boldly in the 

 open to shine against the sky. Their flowering season lasts 

 fully two months and in partial shade the individual blos- 

 soms last long in perfection. The first time I saw the 

 Greek Mullein it was grown in irregular groups along a 

 ferny bank that flanked a woodland walk, and the tender 

 green gloom seemed alight with its radiance. 



There are many other fine yellow-flowered perennials of 

 midsummer, among them Aquilegia chrysantha, Digitalis 

 ambigua, Rudbeckia speciosa or Newmanni, Achillea fili- 

 pendulina, Thermopsis Carolina, Althaea ficifolia, and the 

 yellow varieties of Lilium elegans. 



For sunny effects use should be made of the many lovely 

 yellow Gladiolis, the charming "primulinus hybrids" that 

 are so light and graceful in effect and now and then exhibit 

 lovely rose and copper tones that are in no way out of 

 place among the soft yellow shades, and such other good 



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