The Garden 

 that We Made 



Part of 

 Borders 

 Garden. 



the Flower 

 n the Third 



path is planted with white saxifraga, the leaves of which 

 form a lovely green carpet round the grey, flat stones of 

 the path, while the blossoms raise their graceful heads on 

 tall slender stems. Daisies are put there to fill up empty 

 bits of space in between the stones. But as this is a 

 plant that spreads profusely, one must keep it in check so 

 that it occupies no space which it does not adorn. 



The whole rockery — about ten yards square — took a 



month to finish ; while it now 

 looks as if it had been a rockery 

 from time immemorial. 



A Garden in a 

 Pine Forest. 



The third garden I want to 

 describe is situated in a pine 

 forest in the Archipelago, where 

 one has to battle with great odds 

 as regards the weather ; the gales 

 are strong, the frost lasts till late 

 in the spring, and the soil is 

 poor. The garden is in two 

 sections. One consists of a rose- 

 bed with a border of violets and 

 a carpet of Viola cormita running 

 along the walls of the house. 

 On a terrace facing the sea are 

 Iceland poppies and foxgloves. 

 On every available spot of 

 ground they have planted them- 

 selves, and look 



amongst heather and pine trees. 



The other part of the garden consists of a very pretty 



flower and vegetable plot, the flowers being in long beds 



bordering the paths, and the vegetables in the big spaces 



behind these flower-beds. 



In the background is a giant rock, as if it had been put 



there in order to protect the garden from the north wind. 



And at the foot of the rock there is, in the spring, an array 



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