The Garden 
that We Made 
the annuals ought not to be excluded. It would be a 
pity not to have a splash of portulacas, for instance, 
in the rockery. Once having seen them in their multi- 
coloured glory, one is determined that — come what 
may— one must have them in one’s garden. They open 
only in the sun — but that is precisely their charm. Day 
alter day, as you go about the garden, you will imagine 
that you have discovered hitherto unknown shades of 
colouring in red, yellow, and orange ! There is something 
so fairy-tale like about the 
portulaca. 
Foxgloves look well 
among the stones ; so do 
petunias, low nasturtiums 
and ageratum. Bartonia 
aurea, with yellow blos- 
soms and of low growth, 
must be hanodngr over a 
grey boulder in order to 
appear at its best. 
Among the sedums, or 
stonecrops, there is a tiny 
annual, Sedum ccemleum, 
with pale-blue blossoms ; 
it thrives best if planted 
between two boulders so 
that it falls over them 
like a blue cascade. 
Petunias and Rhodo- 
dendrons growing The M 0 d egt and Retiring little 
among the stones. . ° 
Flowers must be included. 
The more modest flowers should on no account be 
omitted, neither the annuals nor the perennials, such as the 
daisy, the pansy, the Iceland poppy which spreads so 
generously, the different kinds of primroses, forget-me-not, 
different kinds of phlox — both the low- stemmed spring 
phlox and the stately autumn varieties, Linarici cymbalaria , 
that is so often found on the walls of old castles and other 
buildings both in Sweden and in England, where it is called 
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