COLOUR IN MY GARDEN 



Other plants of gray or glaucous leafage are: Sedum 

 Sieboldi, Sedum glaucum and Sedum spectabilis, Mulleins, 

 Globe Thistles, Sea Hollies, Pinks in large and enchanting 

 variety, Arabis, yellow Alyssum, Thymus lanuginosus, Iris 

 pallida dalmatica, Linaria dalmatica, Centaurea dealbata, 

 Baptisia australis, Helychrysum angustifolium. 



Some annuals have good gray foliage. Chief among these 

 are the plants known as Dusty Miller, Centaurea candidis- 

 sima and Cineraria maritima. These were once extensively 

 used in ribbon gardening and bedding, but are as fine and 

 useful in the more graceful and gracious gardening of our 

 own day. They should be started indoors or in a frame in 

 February or March and set out when settled weather is 

 assured. 



I am ever on the lookout for new gray-leaved plants. 

 There is always the possibility in visiting a nursery or in 

 reading a garden book that I shall see or have news of a new 

 one. Miss Jekyll, who, I think, first directed our attention 

 to the beauty and usefulness of this class of plants, speaks 

 of two that I have not yet had the opportunity to try — 

 the Jerusalem Sage (Phlomis fruticosa) and Euphorbia 

 characias. 



A free use of these quiet-toned plants seems to soothe all 

 the conflicting elements of the garden into a happy relation- 

 ship and creates in the mind of the beholder an impression 

 of tranquil unity and accord. 



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