with large heads of buds blooming eight to nine months in the Roses and 
yeene Creepers 
All the Teas, Climbers and many species of Rose . 
flourish here in a wonderful way, retaining all their grace, since 
very little pruning is given. Some of the best forms of Ayrshire 
Roses may be seen smothering a Yew hedge with blossom, whilst 
Teas clothe the long bare stems of the Cordylines. The 
Noisette Papillon looks particularly well for this purpose, 
throwing its pink flowers against the dark, Dracena-like 
tufts of the Cordylines, and in September Sofrano looks equally 
well with its bunches of loose white flowers and many buds 
and glossy leaves. Honeysuckles, Vines, Ampelopsis, and 
many other creepers are all used to cover the bare trunks of 
the trees. In warm positions some of the Mesembryanthemums , 
flourish admirably. The purple Solanum crispum, and the 
white Solanum jasminoides, yield a profusion of flowering 
sprays, and the graceful New Zealand Mueblenbeckia complexa 
sends up its fern-like foliage to a great height. Carpentaria 
californica, with Cistus-like white flowers—the bright, cherry- 
red Salvia Grahami—the red Abutilon vexillarium with a petti- 
coat of yellow and pretty dark green foliage—Apbelias, and many 
flowering shrubs, deck the walls or grow as standard bushes. 
Two special treasures flourish together on a tool shed, So/lya 
heterophylla, from Australia, with tiny blue bells of a lovely 
tone, and Convolvulus cneorum, with white flowers and leaves 
like silvery satin. 
An old rickety wall has been turned into a wall garden 
and is charmingly planted with Androsaces, Erinus alpinus, 
Sedums, Houseleeks, and other similar plants and dwarf shrubs. 
A delightful feature of the whole garden is the carpeting 
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