CHAPTER XII 



GARDENS OF SPECIAL COLOURING 



It is extremely interesting to work out gardens in 

 which some special colouring predominates, and to 

 those who, by natural endowment or careful eye- 

 cultivation, possess or have acquired what artists 

 understand by an ey6 for colour, it opens out a whole 

 new range of garden delights. 



Arrangements of this kind are sometimes attempted, 

 for occasionally I hear of a garden for blue plants, or 

 a white garden, but I think such ideas are but rarely 

 worked out with the best aims. I have in mind a 

 whole series of gardens of restricted colouring, though 

 I have not, alas, either room or means enough to 

 work them out for myself, and have to be satisfied 

 with an all-too-short length of double border for a 

 grey scheme. But besides my small grey garden I 

 badly want others, and especially a gold garden, a 

 blue garden and a green garden ; though the number 

 of these desires might easily be multiplied. 



It is a curious thing that people will sometimes 

 spoil some garden project for the sake of a word. For 

 instance, a blue garden, for beauty's sake, may be 

 hungering for a group of white Lilies, or for something 

 of palest lemon-yellow, but it is not allowed to have it 



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