COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



every high wind. Salvia azurea and its improved variety, 

 <grandiflora, should be planted where Rue bushes, Phlox, or 

 some other sturdy plant may be used as a prop. Stout 

 clumps of Salvia uliginosa are fine set out with the lovely 

 magenta Loosestrife, and such a delicately coloured Phlox 

 as Madame Paul Dutrie would be a good third in the 

 group. 



This is but the half of August's robust symphony. The 

 rest is set to a much deeper tone and rolls forward son- 

 orously to meet the great autumn requiem. One of its 

 grandest notes is sounded by the Tiger Lily. 



The Tiger Lily is, next to the Phlox, the most important 

 plant in the early August garden, but I am sometimes sadly 

 put to it to prevent noisy warfare between these rivals. Of 

 course the curious "grenadine" colour of the Tiger Lilies 

 cannot be trusted to stand amiably in the vicinity of any of 

 the innumerable pink Phloxes, though with some of the 

 sharp scarlet sorts and a few of the coolest of the lavenders 

 it does well enough. My garden, through the arrangement 

 of architectural features, the placing of flowering trees or 

 tall-growing perennials, is contrived into many small sections. 

 It is not possible at any time to see all over it from any 

 viewpoint and so I may have my Tiger Lilies, great masses 

 of them, and my pink Phlox to the point of satiation, without 

 fear of open discord. Again we have recourse to the cool 

 blues — the Aconites, Sea Hollies, Veronica spicata, Globe 

 Thistles, Campanula pyramidalis, and the pale E. Molineux 

 to companion this bold plant. It lends itself well to inter- 

 planting and nothing is better for this purpose than the 

 dark blue Monkshood (Aconitum Napellus) and its pretty 



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