132 The Wild Garden 



brilliant effect I have ever seen in any garden was 

 in a corner of this wild garden in summer, when 

 many great oriental Poppies stood in ranks with the 

 Lupins and Columbines, all growing close together 

 in long grass in a green bay of the plantation. 



Among the best of the Borageworts here, are the 

 Caucasian Comfrey (Symphytum caucasicum), an 

 admirable wood or copse plant, and red-purple or 

 Bohemian Comfrey (S. bohemicum), which is very 

 handsome. And what lovely effects from the Forget- 

 me-nots — the wood Forget-me-not, and the Early 

 Forget-me-not (M. dissitiflora) — are seen here! where 

 their soft clouds of blue . in the Grass are much prettier 

 than when set in the brown earth in a prim border. 

 Here the pushing of the delicate Grass blades through 

 the blue mass, and the way in which the fringes of the 

 tufts mingle with the other plants, are very beautiful. 



Some grayel banks are covered with Stonecrops, 

 Saxifrages, and the like, which would, as a rule, have 

 a poor chance in Grass. Some of the prettiest 

 effects of this wild garden result from the way in 

 which dead trees have been adorned. Some of the 

 smaller branches are lopped off, and one or more 

 climbers planted at the base of the tree. Here a 

 Clematis, a climbing Rose, a fine Ivy, a wild Vine, 

 or a Virginian Creeper, has all it requires, a firm 

 support on which it may arrange itself after its 

 own natural habit, without being mutilated; it gives 

 no trouble to the planter, and has fresh ground 



