Hardy Flowers for the Suburban Garden— By I. g. Tabor, 



HOW A STRIP 4£ x 50 FEET CAN BE MADE A PERFECT COLOR HARMONY, 

 WITH AN ABUNDANCE OF FLOWERS TO CUT FROM AT ALL TIMES 



Sketches by the author 



New 

 York 



TpHAT your garden is a small one is no 

 *■ excuse for having a nondescript bor- 

 der. A great deal can be done in very little 

 space by giving a little thoughi. This plant- 

 ing plan, for a border 4J x 50 feet has been 

 arranged with reference to the height of the 

 plants, season of bloom, and color harmony. 

 The taller growing plants are placed at the 

 back, this border having been planned for 

 use against a fence or wall. The charts 

 showing season of bloom and color harmony 

 are necessarily somewhat unreal. Firstly, 

 as to seasons : Each period has some flowers 

 that carry over from the preceding or that 

 lap upon the following one. The Christmas 

 rose, for instance, may blossom all winter, 

 under the snow, but in the chart it is shown 

 as a spring bloomer. Secondly, as to color: 

 The terms used on the charts and in the 

 planting table are generic, not exact. 



EXTENDING LARGER GARDENS 



If the border given in the plan is not suffi- 

 ciently long for the situation to be planted, 

 an extension may be made by beginning 

 again and repeating as much as is necessary. 

 For instance, the plan shows a clump of 

 phlox (No. 34) and plantain lily (No. 15) at 

 one end, with Lilium auralum (No. 26) and 

 peonies (No. 31) at the other end. These 

 may be placed alongside of each other, and 

 the border continued to the right with Turk's 

 cap lily, The Pearl achillea, and Christmas 

 rose (Nos. 28, 1, 19) etc., 



WHITE THE HARMONIZER 



Many groups of white flowers are scattered 

 through the plantings. These reconcile 

 otherwise impossible colors, and hold to- 

 gether the whole as nothing else can. With- 

 out the free use of white, a mixed border is 

 bound to be a tiresome, disjointed mass of 

 shrieking colors, no matter how carefully it 

 is planned. 



COLOR IMPRESSIONS 



Yellow is a color that will quarrel with 

 almost everything within reach, yet it is the 

 happiest of all in its right place. It has a 

 glow of warmth and cheer that nothing else 

 equals, and nature uses it profusely. 



Nearly always we must put white along- 

 side, and lead off from it gradually. Some 

 of the irises are good next to it, because of 

 the touches of yellow that nearly always 

 mark the iris flowers. 



Blues, lavenders, and grays are the restful 

 cooling colors for warm weather, conse- 

 quently our planting is done to have those 

 hues, with the invaluable white to keep them 

 in harmony, predominate in the midsummer 

 flowering plants. 



The shades of pink and red are welcome 

 at any time, but one needs to be careful in 

 their grouping, to avoid the magenta shades. 



Lavenders are the middle colors between 

 pinks and blues, and in the right selections 

 will blend with both, at the same time har- 

 monizing with some of the delicate yellows. 



The general principle of arrangement of 

 colors is based upon the fundamental opposi- 

 tion of .the three primary colors. These — 

 pure red, pure yellow, and pure blue — never 



PLANTING LIST 



COMMON NAME 



i. Double sneeze wort 



2 . Queen Charlotte anemone . . 



3. Whirlwind anemone 



4. Michaelmas daisy 



5 . Peach-leaved bell flower . . . 



6. Carpathian bell flower 



7 . Pompon chrysanthemum . . . 



8. Shasta daisy 



9. Siberian larkspur 



1 o . Showy larkspur 



1 1 . Yellow foxglove 



r 2 . Woolly foxglove 



1 3 . Common foxglove 



14. White Sweet William 



15. Plantain lily. ..._.. . . . . . . . . 



16. Lemon lily 



17. Goldflower 



18. Swamp marsh mallow 



19. Christmas rose 



20. White hollyhock 



a i . Pink hollyhock 



2 2 . Single hollyhock 



23. Pale blue iris 



24. Silver King iris 



25. Juliette iris 



26. Gold banded lily 



27. Madonna lily 



28. American Turk's-cap lily . . . 



29. Forget-me-not 



30. Iceland poppy 



31. Mad. Chaumy peony 



32. Fennel-leaved peony 



33. Large-flowered Chinese peony 



34. Jeanne d'Arc phlox 



35- Japanese bell-flower 



STANDARD AND TRADE NAMES 



Achillea Ptarmica, var. The Pearl. . . 

 Anemone Japonica, var. Queen 



Charlotte 



Anemone Jap onica, var. Whirlwind. . 



Aster Nova Anglice, var. roseus 



Campanula persicifolia 



Campanula Carpatica, var. alba 



Chrysanthemum Indicum 



Chrysanthemum uliginosum, var. 



Shasta 



Delphinium grandiflorum 



Delphinium formosum 



Digitalis ambigua (D. grandiflora) . . . 



Digitalis lanata 



Digitalis purpurea 



Dianthus barbatus 



Funkia subcordata 



Hemerocallis flava 



Hypericum Moserianum 



Hibiscus Moscheutos 



Helleborus niger 



Alth&a rosea, var. flore pleno 



Althcea rosea, var. Hore pleno 



Althcsa rosea 



Iris pallida 



Iris Germanica, var. Silver King .... 



Iris Germanica, var. Juliette 



Lilium auratum 



Lilium candidum 



Lilium superbum 



Myosotis palustris, var. semper- 



florens 



Papaver nudicale 



Paeonia officinalis, var. Mad. Chaumy 



Pceonia tenuifolia 



Pceonia albiflora, var. fesHva 



Phlox paniculata, var. Jenne d'Arc. 

 Platycodon grandiflora 



COLOR 



white 



pink 



white 



rose 



blue 



white 



yellow 



white 



blue, purple . 



indigo 



yellow 



white 



purple 



white 



white 



yellow 



yellow 



pink 



white 



white 



salmon -pink 

 red to white 

 lavender . . 



white 



yellow 



white, banded 



white 



orange .... 



blue 



yellow 



rose-pink . . . 

 crimson .... 



white 



white 



blue 



HEIGHT 

 IN FEET 



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2 to 3 



2 tO 3 



3 to 5 



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f> to 7 



2 tO 3 



2 to 3 



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2 to 3 



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4 to 5 



4 to 5 



3 to 4 



2 to 3 



2 to 3 .... 



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2 to 3 



2 to 3 



2 tO 3.... 



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MONTH OF 

 BLOOM 



July to Aug. 



Sept. to Nov. 

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 June, July 

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June 

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April 10 June 

 Miy to July 

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 April, May 

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July to Oct. 

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Complete planting plan for the 4 1-2 x 50 foot border. The exact location of each plant is shown 



Flowering chart for spring: Peony, irises, Christmas rose, forget-me-not, Sweet William 



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In the heat of summer the blues and lavenders are abundant. Tall IarKspurs, canterbury bells chiefly; also 

 pale iris, foxgloves. Pearl achillea, day lily and phlox for white harmonizers 



Late flowering plants— September to November— include Japanese anemone, gold flower, Shasta daisy, 

 native asters, hardy chrysanthemums and swamp mallow 

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