THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
May, 1917 
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Companions for Larkspurs 
TAELPHINIl MS associate charmingly with 
either Madonna or longiflorum Lilies. 
As happy in association are the white Japan 
Irises, single and double. An effect of great 
richness has been attained by using Del- 
phiniums for a background and massing Iris 
Jomo-no-umi and Monarda didyma in front. 
I be deep blue Japanese Irises and the charm- 
ing sky-blue Kumo-no-sora, form, with Del- 
phiniums, a garden picture that might well be- 
entitled a “study in blues.” 
I have often seen yellow suggested as the 
appropriate color combination with Delphin- 
iums, but the yellows do not, in my opinion, 
Larkspurs alternated with Phlox as background 
Iris and Snapdragon 
• English Hybrid Delphiniums 
D Phlox 
□Oriental Poppy Blush Queen 
-{-German Iris (pale blue and pink shades) 
Xjapan Iris 
OSnapdragons 
for Japan 
bring out at full value the unrivalled coloring 
of the Larkspurs. I have often thought 
that the advocates of a yellow and blue 
color scheme are speaking two words for the 
yellows and one for the blues, for yellow is a 
difficult character in the average hardy gar- 
den, blue being one of its few- friendly asso- 
ciates. Forget-me-nots, the azure Delphin- 
iums and Anchusas are undeniably beautiful 
with pale yellows, such as English Primroses 
and the delicately tinted hybrid Columbines, 
but the darker shades of both colors are far 
happier apart. Nothing is more beautiful 
with the matchless deep blue of the formosum 
Larkspur than the snowy white of the early 
flowering Phlox Miss Lingard, or the stately 
Madonna Lilies. 
The tall branching Nice Stock, Mont Blanc, 
where it can be successfully flowered in sum- 
mer, is beautiful as a foreground planting for 
Delphiniums. A white Salvia new to me, 
Salvia globosa, the remarkable inflorescence of 
which covers the plant like a drift of snow, will 
be of value for the same purpose. 
In one of my own borders alternate planting 
of Phloxes in harmonious shades and Del- 
phiniums forms the background for fifty 
Japanese Irises in white and varying shades of 
blue. Among the Irises there are planted 
Snapdragons in delicate colors, with an edging 
of Dwarf Pinks. 1 he informal growth of the 
Snapdragons lends grace to the otherwise stiff 
planting of Irises and covers the yellowing 
foliage of the latter with friendly flowers until 
frost. Spring effect is provided by clumps 
of late blooming I ulips and German Irises 
Dalmatica, the newer Lohengrin and Her 
Majesty, while early June will, I hope, find in 
flower the pink Oriental Poppy Blush Queen. 
A perennial stately as the Larkspurs and an 
excellent associate in upholding the dignity 
of the border’s background is the Plume 
Poppy, Bocconia cordata. Single and double 
Hollyhocks are also good for the purpose; 
coming into bloom after the first flowering of 
the Delphiniums, their vigorous growth af- 
fords a cover for the Larkspurs during the 
latter’s brief period of rest and, when they in 
turn experience the garden shears, their shab- 
biness is effectually concealed by the lux- 
uriant second-growth of the plants they have 
similarly befriended. 
Mass. E. Herrick 
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