6z COLOUR SCHEMES 



continuing the pale yellow of the Rue blossom, and 

 forming a kind of groundwork to a group of the fine 

 Mullein Verbascum phlomoides now fully out. Just 

 below this is a clump of the Double Meadowsweet, 

 a mass of warm white flower-foam. Intergrouped are 

 tall Snapdragons, white and palest yellow. Then 

 forward are the pale blue-green sword-blades of Iris 

 Pallida dalmatica that flowered in June. This is one 

 of the few Irises admitted to the border, but it is here 

 because it has the quality, rare among its kind, of 

 maintaining its great leaves in beauty to near the 

 end of the year. Quite to the front are lower-growing 

 plants of purest blue — ^the Cape Daisy (Agaihea 

 ccelestis) and blue Lobelia. 



Now we pass to a rather large group of Eryngium 

 oliverianum, the fine kind that is commonly but 

 wrongly called E. amethystinum. It is a deep-rooting 

 perennial that takes three to four years to become 

 strongly established. In front of this are some pale 

 and darker blue Spiderworts {Tradescantia virginica), 

 showing best in cloudy weather. At the back is 

 Thalictrum flavum, whose bloom is a little overpast, 

 though it still shows some of its foamy-feathery pale 

 yellow. Next we come to stronger yellows, with a 

 middle mass of a good home-grown form of Coreopsis 

 lanceolata. This is fronted by a stretch of Helenium 

 pumilum. Behind the Coreopsis are Achillea Eupa- 

 torium and yellow Cannas. 



Now the colour strengthens with the Scarlet Balm 

 or Bergamot, intergrouped with Senecio artemisia- 

 folius, a plant little known but excellent in the flower 



