GARDENS OF SPECIAL COLOURING 99 



because it is called the blue garden, and there must 

 be no flowers in it but blue flowers. I can see no sense 

 in this ; it seems to me like fetters foolishly self- 

 imposed. Surely the business of the blue garden is to 

 be beautiful as well as to be blue. My own idea is 

 that it should be beautiful first , and then ju st as blue 

 a£jnay_Jbe_ciMiastent^_with_ks_b^ beauty. 



Moreover, any experienced colourist knows that the 

 blues will be more telling — more purely blue — by the 

 juxt aposition of rig htly pl aced com plementary colour. 

 How it may be done is shown in the plan, for, as I 

 cannot have these gardens myself, it will be some 

 consolation to suggest to those who may be in sympathy 

 with my views, how they may be made. 



The Grey g_arden is so called because most of its 

 plants have grey foliage, and all the carpeting and 

 bordering plants are grey or whitish. The flowers 

 are white, lilac, purple and pink. It is a garden 

 mostly for August, because August is the time when 

 the greater number of suitable plants are in bloom ; 

 but a Grey garden could also be made for September, 

 or even October, because of the number of Michaelmas 

 Daisies that can be brought into use. 



A plan is given of a connected series of gardens of 

 special colouring. For the sake of clearness they are 

 shown in as simple a form as possible, but the same 

 colour scheme could be adapted to others of more 

 important design and larger extent. 



The Gold garden is chosen for the middle, partly 

 because it contains the greater number of permanent 



