The Garden 

 that We Made 



The Rockery in the 

 small garden in Spring, 

 before any planting out 

 was done. 



Spring Flowers were the 

 Speciality of the Yellow- 

 Washed Cottage. 



The owner of this little 

 garden has specialised in 

 spring- flowers, and it is about 

 these that I should like to 

 write. But in order to 

 describe the spring flowers 

 1 must go back to the 

 autumn when hundreds and 

 hundreds of bulbs were planted in this prepared soil. 

 Snowdrops, crocus, muscari (or grape hyacinth), scilla, 

 tulips, and so on, were put in during September and 

 October ; they were planted as close together as possible, 

 and two to three inches deep — for the secret of the rich 

 effect is simply the close planting together of the bulbs. 



When the spring approaches, the snowdrops are the 

 very first to peep out from their sheltered and sunny corner 

 by the cottage wall. There they stand in a long array in 

 the front of winter aconite, which has little yellow blossoms 

 somewhat like the anemone, and is particularly welcome on 

 account of the colour it gives to the otherwise pale colour- 

 scheme of early spring. 



Next the crocus appears, first the yellow ones — they 

 are rather small, as a rule — then the mauve and blue 

 varieties, amongst which, I particularly recommend " King 

 of the Blues " and P-arpuira grandiflora. 



Now comes the turn for a number of other spring bulbs 

 planted promiscuously — some earlier, others later — so that 

 in the same beds there shall always be some blossoms. 



Nestling against a giant 

 boulder is a group of the 

 sweet little scilla ; and close 

 besides them is a cluster of 

 yellow crocus against a 

 background of narcissus. 

 In the hollow of an old tree- 

 stump, right up on the hill. 



The same Rockery in 

 June with Daisies and 

 Pansies in the fore- 

 ground. 



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