The Winning Designs 
throughout the border such colours as cannot fail to 
make a pleasing combination. I will give a few ideas 
I have tried with great success. Thalictrum minus, 
T. appendiculatum, and, indeed, other varieties of this 
useful plant, are of the palest yellow, light and 
feathery in appearance, and flower at the same time 
as the Delphiniums Belladonna, Persimmon, and other 
pale blues. Take this as a keynote for a group, and 
you will get an effect that will please everyone who sees 
it. In a very long border repeat this at intervals 
throughout its length, and vary it sometimes with, say, 
a touch of orange in the form of Lilium croceum. Now 
you have the skeleton of the border formed (and it is 
very easy to find sufficient pale blues and yellows) ; 
consider next what colours will be best in association 
with these groups. Pink at once suggests itself, and 
may be combined with several shades. Pink and 
white is delicate and beautiful. Pink and pale (very 
pale) yellow are delicious, but the acme of elegance is 
achieved in an arrangement of pink and lavender, with 
grey foliage interspersed. Now you can join up to 
your pink and lavender combinations with some deep 
purple and white, then introduce some orange and 
gold, then deep blue and cream, or white, and finally 
mass your scarlets and crimsons with plenty of green 
interspersed. These effects can be repeated ad lib., 
but it is a very long border indeed that requires the 
duplication more than once or twice. A word of 
advice to those who adopt this idea, or indeed, any 
other colour scheme arrangement. Don’t attempt it 
without a liberal choice of material. Don’t attempt 
it without the utmost care and consideration being 
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