Planning the Paths 

 and the Flower-Be ds 



A self-sown Mullein, 

 with a 

 behind it. 



Starting to Plant the 

 Hillside with Flowers. 



When the tree-felling 

 was completed, grass was 

 sown on the hill, the edge 

 being finished off with a 

 low hedge of yew. This 

 hedge has grown splen- 

 didly, and looks like a low, 

 thick, green wall. Anyone 

 who has room for such a 



hedge should try it. When clipped twice a year, nothing 

 can be prettier as a hedge than such a low, close, ever- 

 green wall. 



We put various kinds of perennial flowers in little beds 

 here and there on the grassy slope — some in mixed groups, 

 some by themselves. Even in our first year we had many 

 kinds of flowers in bloom, such as the hardy scarlet fuchsia, 

 montbretia, lychnis (that spreads so well), foxgloves, lilies, 

 hypericum, the Oriental poppy with huge red blossoms, 

 and others. 



The Matter 

 of Grouping. 



By degrees, however, we came to the conclusion that 



the flowers appeared to much greater advantage when not 



mixed too much. We also found that it was best to have not 



more than two colours in the same group, and that the tall 



Yew'^Hidge pure white lilies, white chrysanthemums of different kinds, 



and some red flowers such as 

 fuchsia, montbretia, Oriental poppy, 

 and sweet bergamot, looked exceed- 

 ingly well together. One must 

 needs find one's way by degrees in 

 matters of arrangement. 



In the immediate vicinity of 

 the castle there had not been 

 anything at all in the way of 

 flowers, and we very soon found 



One of the 

 showing the 

 Hedge. 



terraces, 

 low Yew 



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