$6 COLOUR SCHEMES 



Even when a flower border is devoted to a special 

 season, as mine is given to the time from mid- July to 

 October, it cannot be kept fully furnished without 

 resorting to various contrivances. One of these is the 

 planting of certain things that will follow in, season of 

 bloom and that can be trained to t£ike each other's 

 places. Thus, each plant of Gypsophila paniculata 

 when full grown covers a space a good four feet wide. 

 On each side of it, within reasonable distance of the 

 root, I plant Oriental Poppies. These make their leaf 

 and flower growth in early summer when the G5rpso- 

 phila is still in a young state. The Poppies will have 

 died down by the time the Gypsophila is full grown 

 and has covered them. After this has bloomed the 

 seed-pods turn brown, and though a little • of this 

 colouring is not harmful in the autumn border, yet it 

 is not wanted in such large patches. We therefore 

 grow at its foot, or within easy reach, some of the 

 trailing Nasturtiums, and lead them up so that they 

 cover the greater part of the brown seed-spray. 



Delphiniums, which are indispensable for July, leave 

 bare stems with quickly yellowing leafage when the 

 flowers are over. We plant behind them the white 

 Everlasting Pea, and again behind that. Clematis 

 Jackmanii. When the Delphiniums are over, the 

 rapidly forming seed-pods are removed, the stems are 

 cut down to just the right height, and the white Peas 

 are trained over them. When the Peas go out of bloom 

 in the middle of August, the Clematis is brought over. 

 It takes some years for these two plants to become 

 established ; in the case of those I am describing the 



