The Garden 
that We Made 
White Gypsophila in 
the Rock-Garden. 
particular favourites of mine : Gypsophila repens , with pink 
and white blossom ; speedwell, which spreads over the 
ground ; Gentiana acaulis , that wonderful, pretty little blue 
alpine flower ; all kinds of Hypericum (the Rose of Sharon 
and St. John’s Wort family), of which there are many 
different varieties, tall and short, some creeping along the 
ground, covering it completely with little yellow blossoms as 
soon as ever the sun shines a little — as, for instance, Hyperi- 
cum polyphyllum , and the creeping Hypericum rep tans. 
Other particular favourites of mine are Incarviltea 
delavayi, with rose-red bugle-shaped blooms and big leaves 
(it looks particularly well in a rock-garden) ; many and 
various kinds of campanula, with their demure little blue- 
and-white bells ; the common spircea, often seen indoors in 
Sweden, can easily be transplanted to a shady spot once it 
has attained some strength and maturity. It should, 
however, always have sufficiently moist soil. Then one 
can rejoice, every spring, in the tiny red shoots amongst 
the stones, for spiraea is so hardy that, even in a northern 
clime, it can stand the wintry cold without needing to be 
covered over. 
Azaleas and rhododendrons should not be forgotten. 
Their proper place is on the crest of the rockery. No 
shrubs are so radiantly beautiful when in bloom as these 
two last mentioned. And the azaleas are an orna- 
ment also in the autumn, 
when the leaves are 
almost as pretty as the 
flowers were in the sum- 
mery June. As regards 
rhododendrons, their 
leaves look well all the 
year round. 
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