36 COLOUR SCHEMES 



with the leaf-colour of the Peonies ; next to them is 

 a comer of glistening deep green Asarum. No other 

 flowers of any size are near, but there are sheets of 

 the tender yellow bloom and pale foliage of Corydalis 

 ochroleuca, of the white-bloomed Woodruff, and the 

 pale green leafage of Epimedium ; and among them 

 tufts of Lent Hellebores, also in fresh young leaf, and 

 a backing of the feathery fronds of Lady Fern and of 

 the large Solomon's Seal ; with drooping garlands of 

 Clematis montana hanging informally from some rough 

 branching posts. Yew-trees are at the back, and 

 then Beeches in tender young leaf. 



The foot of the near mound is a pink cloud of London 

 Pride. Shooting up among it and just beyond is 

 the white St. Bruno's Lily. * More of this lovely httle 

 Uly-like Anthericum is again a few feet further along, 

 grouped with 7m Cengialti, one of the bluest of the 

 Irises. The back of the mound has some of the 

 tenderly tinted Caparne hybrid Irises two feet high, 

 of pale lilac colouring, rising from among dark-leaved, 

 white-bloomed Iberis, and next the path a pretty, large- 

 flowered Tufted Pansy that nearly matches the Iris. 



But the glory of the mound is the long stretch of 

 blue-lilac Phlox divaricata, whose colour is again 

 repeated by a little of the same on the simny bank 

 to the left. Here it is grouped with pale pink Scotch 

 Brier, more pale yellow Corydalis and Arenaria montana 

 smothered in its masses of white bloom. At the end of 

 the bank the colour of the Phlox divaricata is deepened 

 by sheaves of Camassia esculenta that spear up through 

 it. The whole back of this bank has a free planting 



