66 COLOUR SCHEMES 



Delphinium Belladonna, with flowers of a blue purer 

 than that of any other of its beautiful kind. It never 

 grows tall, nor has it the strong, robust aspect of 

 the larger ones, but what it lacks in vigour is more 

 than made up for by the charming refinement of the 

 whole plant. In the same bed are the other pure blues 

 of the rare double Siberian Larkspur, and the single 

 allied kind Delphinium grandiflorum, of Salvia patens 

 and of the Cape Daisy (Agathea coslestis). Between the 

 clumps of Belladonna are bushes of white Lavender, 

 and the whole is carpeted and edged with the white 

 foliage of Artemisia stelleriana, the quite hardy plant 

 that is such a good substitute for the tenderer 

 Cineraria maritima. 



Among the best flowers of July that have a place 

 in this garden are the Pentsteraons planted last year. 

 We grow them afresh from cuttings every autumn, 

 planting them out in April. They are not quite hardy, 

 and a bad winter may destroy all the last year's plants. 

 But if these can be saved they bloom in July, whereas 

 those planted in the spring of the year do not flower 

 till later. So we protect the older plants with fir- 

 boughs and generally succeed in saving them. Old 

 plants of Snapdragon are also now in flower. They 

 too are a little tender -in the open, although they 

 are safe in dry-walling with the roots out of the way 

 of frost and the crowns kept dry among the stones. 



Much use is made of a dwarf kind of Lavender that 

 is also among the best of the July flowers The whole 

 size of the plant is about cne-third that of the ordinary 

 kind ; the flowers are darker in colour and the time 



