The Garden Magazine, December, 1921 



179 



FRI ENDLY, FRA- 

 GRANT VINES DRAP- 

 ING THE PATIO 

 WALLS 



Bignonia, Bougainvillea, 

 Jasmine, and Kennedyia 

 each occupy a corner, 

 touching hands in pleasant 

 fashion along the wall and 

 filling the enclosure with 

 scented sweetness and 

 cheer 



HELIOTROPE AND' 



ROSES KNOW NO 



BOUNDS 



Scrambling gaily nearly 

 roof-high, peering and 

 nodding about our sec- 

 ond story windows, 

 Heliotrope and Roses 

 breathe sweetly on 

 winter mornings, de- 

 lighting the eye with 

 their mingled gold and 

 lavender 



shape; but the rugged desert world had made 

 an indelible impression on my mind, and so had 

 the Orange trees and green things of the San 

 Bernardino, for I chose a rocky mountain-side 

 with a wonderful view to the Pacific and its 

 islands and a great towering mountain for back- 

 ground — and 1 have been busy building terraces 

 and making soil ever since for the growing of 

 those beautifully green and richly flowered plants 

 which so filled me with a desire to possess their 

 like. 



Our mountain was very steep and I soon found 

 that we had acquired a wonderful bit of scenery 

 — beautiful rocks, lovely, pinkish-cream sand- 

 stone easily built into endless walls for the 

 terraces — but had neither good soil nor sufficient 

 water, two primary essentials for a California 

 garden. Both of these conditions I have since 

 very nearly been able to rectify, and our garden 

 grows apace. 



This dependence upon irrigation is, I believe, 

 an economic factor forcing California gardening 

 into those formal lines which lend themselves to 

 its practice. A hedge is much more readily 

 watered than broad, irregularly planted borders; 

 and the topography of nearly all the coast 

 counties suggests so strongly the gardens of 

 Italy or Spain that these types seem to fall 

 naturally into the landscape. Our garden is not 

 an exception, and the water used in the highest 

 basin passes on by gravity into various jets and 

 pools which brighten and reflect the vegetation 

 of the descending terraces. (Pictured on op- 

 posite page.) 



THE choice of garden material is fairly be- 

 wildering, and plants and vines of all colors 

 can readily be had for bloom practically all the 

 year. One's choice seems directed more by 

 conditions of sun or shade than by any other 



