COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



blue-and-white variety, bicolor. The great candelabra-like 

 stalks of Lilies are very splendid mingled with the more 

 lightly made panicles of hooded flowers, and the more the 

 two spread and crowd each other the more splendid is the 

 display. A bold group shows the Tiger Lily planted with 

 tall spires of pale Mullein and masses of partly spent 

 Veronica spicata, with a few stalks of Hemerocallis Kwanso 

 that almost repeats the colour of the Lily. One still bolder 

 has our Lily interplanted with Veronica virginica with a 

 foreground of Phlox Coquelicot and a pale, late-flowering 

 Lemon Lily that I think is Hemerocallis citrina. At its feet 

 blue and white Carpathian Harebells flower tumultuously, 

 and over its head, swinging from a cedar arch, are the 

 strange scarlet urn-shaped blossoms of Clematis coccinea. 

 The scarlet Trumpet Creeper might well climb the wall at 

 the back of this group among the English Ivy which is 

 already there. 



The Tiger Lily is one of the few Lilies that grows like any 

 other hardy plant under ordinary garden conditions. It 

 "seeds" itself prolifically as well as carrying on operations 

 underground and one may very shortly give away Tiger 

 Lily bulbs as one gives roots of Phlox and Michaelmas 

 Daisies. I know several places in Orange County that are 

 completely overrun with it — the great stalks of nodding 

 Lilies rising close to the dusty roadside. Hemerocallis flava, 

 the orange Day Lily, is also often called the Tiger Lily, 

 and it is frequently found growing along the roadside. 



Lilium Henryi is a beautiful August-flowering Lily of recent 

 introduction that promises to be of the gracious managable- 

 ness of L. tigrinum. I have but a few bulbs of it so far, as 



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