88 COLOUR SCHEMES 



blood-red Hollyhocks still show colour, and scarlet 

 Dahlias are a mass of gorgeous bloom. Their nearest 

 neighbours are tall flaming Tritomas, with, in front of 

 them, one of the dwarfer Tritomas that is crowded with 

 its orange-scarlet flowers of a rather softer tone. Then 

 come scarlet Gladiolus, a wide group of a splendid red 

 Pentstemon, and, to the front, an edging and partly 

 carpeting mass of the good, short-growing form of Salvia 

 splendens called Pride of Zurich. 



After these strong reds comes a drift of the briUiant 

 orange African Marigold, one of the most telling 

 plants of the time of year. Coming to the yeUows of 

 middle strength, there are some of the perennial Sun- 

 flowers, among them the one that seems to be a form of 

 Helianthus orgyalis, described in the last chapter. This 

 and some others are trained down to cover plants 

 now out of bloom. The fine double Rudbeckia called 

 Golden Glow is treated in the same way. Intergrouped 

 with it is a useful pale, form of Helianthus leetiflorus 

 that takes up the colour when the Rudbeckia is failing. 

 In the near end region of blue-grey foliage the bloom 

 of Clematis davidiana, also of a greyish blue, but of a 

 colour quality that is almost exclusively its own, tones 

 delightfully with its nearest neighbours of leaf and 

 bloom. About here some pots of Plumbago capensis 

 are dropped in ; their wide-ranging branches, instead 

 of being stiffly tied, are trained over some bushy plants 

 toi leaden-blue-foliaged Rue. Near this, and partly 

 shooting up through some of the same setting, are the 

 spikes of a beautiful Gladiolus of pale, cool pink colour, 

 the much-prized gift of an American garden-loving 



