I say, dominant, because though at this time of year a Phlox 
garden, with only four strong groups of this lovely Amaryllis 
in the four central beds, yet everything else seems auxiliary, 
planted to show off and emphasize its delicate beauty of color. 
In one bed the tall stiff stems with their crown of blue-shaded 
pink flowers, stood out from among feathery mauve clumps of 
Statice latifolia. White Phlox gave body to the background, 
echoed by a heavy mass of a clear white Geranium at the front 
of the bed, while between them grew Zinnias, flesh-pink to a dull 
rose, Salvia farinacea, a velvet purple Petunia and at the edge, 
Stachys and Ageratum. Seen beyond this bed of mauves and 
pinks, a touch of deep rich almost magenta Phlox gave meaning 
to the whole. Here you have very pale pink merging through 
mauves and lavenders into deep purple. A range of color 
intensified, yet brought into harmony, by the difference in 
texture of both flowers and foliage. Without the gray of the 
Stachys and Salvia much of the ethereal quality of the planting 
would be lost. The same Amaryllis with Echinops in the back- 
ground, Phlox Antonin Mercie, Mme. Paul Dutrie and Elizabeth 
Campbell, and the rose-like flowers of one of Sutton's Camelia- 
flowered Balsams as foreground, is seen against the varying blue 
and gray-greens of Lonicera and Abies concolor. 
Another combination of Mrs. King 's favorite blue-greens and 
pale-pinks, showing a particularly good variety of form was a 
shaggy rose-colored Poppy, with its decorative seed pods, Sweet 
Lavender with stiff silvery foliage, fleshy Sedum spectabile, not 
quite in bloom, Buddleia with darker foliage of the same tone, 
and used just where an accent was needed, the blue Lyme Grass 
Elymus Arenarius. This planting was near the edge of the 
garden overshadowed by Apple trees. 
For those who love the yellows and bronzes rather than the 
cooler colors, there was a planting of naming orange Zinnias, 
spiral Mignonette and (this one of Nature's happy accidents) 
the red-bronze seedpods of Nigella in the foreground. 
A Phlox garden, white and pink, lavender and rose-color, 
where one forgets the Phlox, save as it gives a needed solidity of 
form and hue, such is Mrs. King's garden. The feeling of form 
is enhanced by an enclosing hedge, almost as broad as high, and 
as smooth and solid as a wall. Behind it is the real garden back- 
ground — big shrubs on one side and at the other and at the far 
end of the Garden, Grape covered trellises with arched gateways, 
which in June are a glory of climbing Roses. Through one of 
these arches is the service-yard, while through the other up a 
few steps, on a higher level are the picking garden and trial- 
garden, made gay with borders of annuals. Here at the end of 
the path which forms a continuous vista from the loggia, is a 
quaint garden house, backed by silver Poplars, and presided 
over by fanciful wooden birds which give it quite a foreign air. 
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