COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



of magenta I have ever seen were Bougainvillea cascading over white walls 

 in Madeira, and great trailing slabs of some Mesembryanthemums on the 

 cliffs at the entrance of the harbour of Bonificio. But alas, these two 

 effects cannot be repeated in this country [England] except perhaps on the 

 "Cornish Riviera." ... I have often thought I should like to try a 

 border of strong magentas with a good many violets and purples and lilacs, 

 a few pinks of the type of Lavatera Olbia, that is with just a suspicion of 

 blue in them, and perhaps a very few white flowers. 



Here is Mr. Eliot's list of flowers for a magenta border 

 of which he says, "Comparatively few of them are of the 

 true colour, yet most or all of them are reds and pinks 

 that would accord." 



Aubrietias Fire King and Leichtlinii, Epilobium Dodonaei, Calamintha 

 grandiflora, Lythrum alatum, Dianthus Seguieri, Lychnis viscaria splen- 

 dens, Thymus serpyllum coccineus majus, Betonica grandiflora superba, 

 Cortusa mathiola (shade), Primulas pulverulenta and Veitchii, Lathyrus 

 latifolius (grown on pea sticks), Lavatera Olbia (and near it Nepeta 

 Mussini), Lythrum virgatum Rose Queen, Lythrum Salicaria superbum; 

 Phlox Le Mahdi, Albert Vandal, Reichgraf von Hochberg and Rosenberg 

 for strong colours; and Phlox Eugene Danzanvillers, Phlox pilosa, Phlox 

 subulata compacta, Monarda violacea superba, Verbena venosa (tender 

 but beautiful), Lunaria biennis, Callirhoe, pulchella and Mesembryanthe- 

 mum tricolor. 



To this good list I must add a few of my own favourites : 

 the exquisite, sprawling Callirhoe involucrata, Lychnis 

 Coronaria the Mullein Pink, Kansas Gay Feather, purple 

 Foxglove, Azalea amoena, Rhododendron catawbiense, 

 the splendid Ironweed, Lychnis alpina, Spiraea Davidii, 

 Centaurea dealbata Desmodium penduliflorum, and some 

 fine Michaelmas Daisies of the novae-Angliae ruber type. 



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