30 COLOUR SCHEMES 



over the lower stature of pink Tulips and harmonising 

 charmingly with the pinkish-green foliage of the Tree 

 Peonies just behind. The pink Tulips are here in some 

 quantity ; they run boldly into pools of pale blue 

 Myosotis, with more Iberis where the picture demands 

 the strongest, deepest green, and more Corydalis where 

 the softer, greyer tones will make it better. 



The space marked Shade, always in shade from 

 the nuts and oaks, is planted with rather large patches 

 of the handsome white-flowered Dentaria, the graceful 

 North American Uvularia grandiflora, in habit like a 

 small Solomon's Seal, but with yellow flowers much 

 larger in proportion ; with Myrrhis and purple Honesty 

 at the back and sheets of Sweet Woodruff to the front. 



There are Tree Peonies in the long border and the 

 two others. It is difficult to grow them in my hot, 

 dry, sandy soil, even though I make them a liberal 

 provision of just such a compost as I think they will 

 like. I have noticed that they do best when closely 

 overshadowed by some other growing thing. In the 

 two near beds there are some Mme. Alfred Carriere Roses 

 that are trained to arch over to the angles, so as to com- 

 fort and encourage the Peonies. These beds have an 

 informal edging of Stachys lanata, one of the most useful 

 of plants for grey effects. Through it come white 

 Tulips in irregular patches. 



The long border has also Tree Peonies planted about 

 two and a half feet from the edge. Partly to give the 

 bed a sort of backbone, and partly to shelter the Tree 

 Peonies, it has some bushes of Veronica Traversi and 

 one or two Leycesteria formosa. In the middle of the 



