FLOWER BORDERS IN SEPTEMBER 89 



friend. Tall white Snapdragons, five feet high, show 

 finely among the gracefully recurved leaves of the blue 

 Lyme-grass. Beyond is a group of Lilium auratum, 

 and in the more distant front, pale sulphur African 

 Marigold, just now at its best. 



The further end of the border also has grey fohage 

 associated with pink Hydrangeas, white and pink 

 Snapdragons, white Dahlias, purple Clematis, Lilium 

 auratum and Aster acris. Yucca fiaccida is still in 

 beauty. 



There is another range of double border for the 

 month of September alone. It passes down through 

 the middle of the kitchen garden and is approached by 

 an arch of Laburnum. It is backed on each side by a 

 Hornbeam hedge some five and a half feet high. This 

 border is mainly for the earlier Michaelmas Daisies ; 

 those that bloom in the first three weeks of the month. 

 Grey foliage in plenty is to the front Running in 

 between the groups is Artemisia stelleriana, the quite 

 hardy plant that so well imitates Cineraria maritima ; 

 there are also Stachys and White Pink. Further back 

 among the flowers are drifts of the grey-blue Lyme- 

 grass, some grey bushes of Phlomis and a silvery-leaved 

 Willow, kept to a suitable size by careful pruning. 



The scheme of colouring consists of this groundwork 

 of grey foliage, with white, lilac, purple and pale pink 

 flowers ; and, breaking into this colouring in two or 

 three distinct places, flowers of pale yellow and yellowish 

 white with suitable accompanying leafage. There is 

 also, in quite another part of the garden, a later border 



