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Perhaps the Grey garden is seen at its best by 

 reaching it through the orange borders. Here the 

 eye becomes filled and saturated with the strong red 

 and yellow colouring. D on the plan stands for 

 Dahlia ; the other plant names are written in full. 

 This filling with the strong, rich colouring has the 

 natural effect of making the eye eagerly desirous 

 for the complementary colour, so that, standing by 

 the inner Yew arch and suddenly turning to look into 

 the Grey garden, the effect is surprisingly — quite 

 astonishingly — luminous and refeshing. One never 

 knew before how vividly bright Ageratum could be, 

 or Lavender or Nepeta ; even the grey-purple of 

 Echinops appears to have more positive colour than 

 one's expectation would assign to it. The purple 

 of the Clematises of the Jackmanii class becomes 

 piercingly brilliant, while the grey and glaucous 

 foliage looks strangely cool and clear. 



The plan shows the disposition of the plants, with 

 grey-white edging of Cineraria maritima, Stachys 

 and Santolina. There are groups of Lavender with 

 large-fiowered Clematises (C in the plan) placed so 

 that they may be trained close to them and partly 

 over them. There are the monumental forms of the 

 taller Yuccas, Y. gloriosa and its variety recurva 

 towards the far angles, and, nearer the front (marked 

 Yucca in plan), the free-blooming Yi*cca filamen- 

 tosa of smaller size. The flower-colouring is of purple, 

 pink and white. Besides the Yuccas, the other white 

 flowers are Lilium longiflorum and Liliutn candidum 

 (L C on plan), the clear white Achillea The Pearl 



