I—WILD GARDEN NOTES 
HE Woodland effect, illustrated, which I found in a friend’s Nature’s 
ii garden at Saltwood, reminds one of the wealth of colour Gardens 
which Nature bestows on many a wild spot, and of the 
good purpose to which a wise gardener may turn such natural 
advantages, not clearing ruthlessly away as common, the treasures 
he already possesses, but adding to them other suitable flowers. 
In Nature’s pictures it should be remembered that, as a 
rule, the most effective are those where one flower is spread with 
a lavish hand, or one or two of harmonious colouring are grouped 
together. One recalls the effect made by sheets of Primroses or 
Bluebells, which appear with miraculous speed where woods 
have been thinned, or of woody slopes where a mauve haze of 
Cuckoo Flower seems to linger over the Primroses, or where the 
Bluebells are dappled with the white Onion. 
Such effects as these need space, but the same scheme may 
be carried out in a small way, and simple groups of one flower 
be planted in the Wild Garden in as large masses as possible; 
or if additions are made to an existing effect, Nature’s example 
may be copied, and the variety and colour of the plants be 
limited. 
In this Kent wood it was a happy thought to add 
the sweet scented Pheasant Eye Narcissus to the rosy 
patches of Campion—the late N. Poeticus must be used as 
the other varieties of Narcissus are too early. If one is 
not fortunate enough to possess such a wealth of wild 
flowers, they may sometimes be easily introduced, and many 
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