28 COLOUR SCHEMES 



of the grandest and most pictorial of plants of recent 

 acquirement for garden use. 



The Acanthus and Yucca are of course plants of 

 middle and late summer ; between them are some 

 Tritomas. These plants are here because one of the 

 most often used of the garden thoroughfares passes 

 the point C, which is a thick-roofed arch of Rose and 

 Clematis, and, seen from this point and framed by the 

 near greenery, they form a striking picture of middle- 

 distant form and colour in the later summer. 



The space marked Further Rock is an upward- 

 sloping bank, the Hollies standing on rather higher 

 ground. Here the plants are between, and tumbling 

 over, rocky ridges. Next the large Holly, and ex- 

 tending to the middle of the rocky promontory, are 

 again the strong reds and browns, with accompanying 

 bronze-red foliage of Heuchera Richardsoni. This gives 

 place to dark green carpeting masses of Iberis with 

 cold-white bloom, and, nearer the path, Lithospermum 

 prostratum ; the flower-colour here changing, through 

 white, to blue and bluish ; Myosotis in front telling 

 charmingly against the dark-leaved Lithospermum. 

 At the highest points, next to a great crowning bowlder, 

 is the Common Blue Iris and a paler one of the beautiful 

 Caparne series. Then down to the path where it begins 

 to turn is a drift of the bluish-lilac Phlox divaricata, 

 and, opposite the cross-path, some jewels of the newer 

 pale yellow Alyssum sulphureum. This rocky shoulder 

 is also enlivened by a natural-looking but very carefully 

 considered planting of white Tulips that run through 

 both the blue and the red regions. 



