The Garden 

 that We Made 



A background of Fox- 

 gloves. 



of daffodils ; later on there are calendula. Their 

 glowing yellow against the grey granite is one of 

 the most glorious sights imaginable. The long, 

 narrow flower-beds are divided into squares, each 

 square being devoted to one kind of flower. In 

 the centre, under an old plum tree, there is a 

 seat from which one can enjoy the sight of the 

 flowers — the border of portulaca ; the deep blue 

 Anchusa Italica Dropmore ; the salmon-pink 

 Dianthus barbatus : the low-stemmed Campanula 

 carpatica , the red lychnis ; heuchera, with flaming-red 

 blossoms ; the tall perenial autumn asters ; the brilliant 

 golden rudbeckia ; here also one can enjoy the white rocket, 

 and the huge marguerites ; and not the least amongst one's 

 pleasures is that derived from the sight of the Canterbury 

 bells in different shades of blue and pink. 



A Garden on a. 

 Rocky Island. 



Last spring we began to alter the steep hillside into a 

 rockery of a different character from the ones just described. 

 Since the one solid rock constituted all we wanted in the 

 way of stone, and since the rocks of the Archipelago 

 islands are both terraced and broken by crevices in which 

 one can put plants, our work consisted in improving the 

 soil, enlarging the existing natural "flower-beds," and 

 adding to the grass and wild flowers which already existed ; 

 also we had to bank up the earth, and thus secure the soil 

 against rains that would wash it away ; this we did by 

 means of cement. Such cement-edges must be as narrow 

 and invisible as one can manage it ; but they are not 

 difficult to make, and I know this from my own personal 

 experiments. 



We planted aubretia, Alyssuin saxatile with its bright 

 yellow blossoms, Arabis alpina and Dianthus plniuariiis (a 

 very pretty little variety of Diantlnis), foxgloves, " mother 

 of millions," primroses, different kinds of stonecrops, white, 

 yellow and blue, anemone, pansies, periwinkle, Crncianella 

 stylosa, nasturtiums, different kinds of phlox, such as nivalis, 



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