COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



Eugene Danzanvilliers, pale lilac in colour. The heavy 

 heads of the Sea Lavender require to be staked, but the 

 stakes should be so arranged that they will not show and 

 spoil the airy, poised effect of the flower sprays. 



More use should be made in the August garden of our 

 native Veronica virginica. I do not often see it, but have 

 grown it myself for a long time and consider it of the first 

 value as a hardy plant. At this season, when so much is 

 rankly luxuriant and diffuse in habit, the slender but firmly 

 erect stalks of the Culverwort, terminating in clusters of 

 gray-white tapering flower spikes, have a special, refined 

 beauty. It grows in rich, heavy soil six feet tall, but in dry 

 soil will not reach a greater height than four feet. There is a 

 handsome group made up of scarlet Phlox Etna, dark blue 

 Aconite, and this white Veronica, and again it is most 

 effective where it is set between clumps of the splendid 

 double Orange Day Lily (Hemerocallis Kwanso), with which 

 it blooms. 



Salvia azurea belongs to the gentler side of August. Its 

 delicate sky-blue wands are in charming accord with such 

 a Phlox as Peachblow and I have it also set among some 

 clumps of the splendid long-flowering Mullein Pink (Lychnis 

 Coronaria), whose rich magenta colouring is wonderfully 

 enhanced by the delicate blue. Even of greater merit than 

 Salvia azurea is a giant form of recent introduction in this 

 country, listed as S. uliginosa.* It grows five feet tall, is 

 stronger and more substantial in all its parts, and has not 

 the disconcerting habit of S. azurea, of being overthrown by 



*This plant is not reliably hardy in the vicinity of New York unless well protected. The 

 roots may be carried over in a frame. 



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