46 BOOK OF GARDEN PLANS 
we shall turn the seat on the south side nearly halfway round that we 
may look from it either within the garden or outside and beyond to the 
distant hills. 
The features of this planting may be discovered from a study of the 
plan and referring to the key list. There is a concentration of yellow 
about the bird bath (this will be very effective when seen from the house) 
and of white at the entrance to the garden. Tall herbs are planted in the 
back of the border, next to the surrounding shrubbery, and a continuous 
border of low herbs borders the grass panels. The south side is known in 
its season by its many tall Iris, the south seat has broad heavy foliage 
around it. Other features of the garden you may readily discover. 
Harmony of form, color, and foliage, as well as eight months of bloom are 
provided for. Every inch of the soil is covered, even to a ground cover 
of low herbs—Speedwell, Mountain Spurge, Periwinkle, and others of 
similar nature—under the shrubbery that borders the walk. 
The area is not overplanted, though a substitute effect could be ob- 
tained from using fewer species in larger masses, but more care would 
have to be taken that there be no times of little bloom. Bulbous plants, 
as Tulips, Crocus, etc., could be added indefinitely, for added bloom in 
early spring and late autumn. 
