74 COLOUR SCHEMES 



of the pretty mist-like blooxn four feet across and as 

 much high. This bold introduction of grey among 

 the colour masses has considerable pictorial value. 

 As the grey changes, towards the end of the 

 month, to a brownish tone, some of the tall Nas- 

 turtiums are allowed to grow over the bushes of 

 Gypsophila. 



Now we have got beyond the middle of the length 

 of the border, and the colour changes again to the 

 clear and pale yellows, and then again to the grey 

 foliage as at the beginning. Where this occurs, at a 

 little more than two-thirds of the way along the border, 

 it is crossed by the path, leading, through an archway 

 in the wall closed by a door, to the garden beyond. 

 This cross-path is flanked by groups of Yuccas, slightly 

 raised, as will be seen in some of the illustrations. {See 

 pp. 53, 112.) Yuccas all like a raised mound and some 

 good loam to grow in. I have them here as well as 

 at the two extreme ends of the border. No plants 

 make a handsomer full-stop to any definite garden 

 scheme. The grey treatment comprises the two 

 Yucca mounds to right and left of the cross-path « 

 the other grey plants are as before — Cineraria mari- 

 tima, Santolina, Stachys, Elymus and Rue — but at 

 this end, besides some plants with white, pink and 

 palest yellow colouring, the other flowers are not blues, 

 but purples, light and dark. Among these a very 

 useful thing is Ageratum ; not the dwarf Ageratum, 

 though this is good too in its place, but the ordinary 

 Ageratum mexicanum, a _plant that grows about two 

 feet high. This is also the place for some of the earliest 



