COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



quiet theme, that we are enabled to enjoy it as freely in the 

 garden as we do elsewhere. 



Particularly in gardens where there is much stone work, 

 this gentle, mediating tone is of marked value, seeming 

 to draw the widely differing materials that go to make up 

 the garden into a more sympathetic relationship. And in 

 autumn, when the clamour of gay colours is silenced, the 

 gray-leaved plants gleam with a special significance and 

 beauty, keeping our garden fresh and well adorned for yet 

 many weeks. 



To be wholly effective, these sober-hued plants should be 

 used with a fairly lavish hand, not dotted about among 

 gayer colours where their quiet sway would scarcely be 

 felt. They are most effective among light-coloured flowers, 

 mauves and pinks, pale buff, and particularly with white 

 flowers. 



I do not know of many gray-leaved shrubs. A number 

 of the Willows have fine silvery foliage and grow satis- 

 factorily in other situations than by the waterside. Salix 

 rosmarinifolia is one of the best, and we have Salix alba 

 argentea that grows to quite a good-sized tree, the Royal 

 Willow, and several others. The Silver-leaved Oleasters 

 (Eleagnus argentea and angustifolium) are Willow-like 

 shrubs with delicate gray foliage and ornamental fruit. 

 The Sea Buckthorn (Hippophoe rhamnoides) has grayish 

 foliage and there are two new Japanese Bush-honeysuckles 

 (Lonicera Korolkowii and L. thibetica) said to be very 

 fine, with fragrant pink blossoms and silver-green foliage. 

 Besides these there are "silver" Elms, Ashes, Lindens, 

 Hollies, and a number of evergreens that show a silvered or 



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