The Garden 
that We Made 
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The Rockery in the 
small garden in Spring, 
before any planting out 
was done. 
Spring Flowers were the 
Speciality of the Yellow- 
Washed Cottage. 
The owner of this little 
garden has specialised in 
spring flowers, and it is about 
these that 1 should like to 
write. But in order to 
describe the spring flowers 
I must go back to the 
autumn when hundreds and 
hundreds of bulbs were planted in this prepared soil. 
Snowdrops, crocus, muscari (or grape hyacinth), scilla, 
tulips, and so on, were put in during September and 
October; they were planted as close together as possible, 
and two to three inches deep— for the secret of the rich 
effect is simply the close planting together of the bulbs. 
When the spring approaches, the snowdrops are the 
very first to peep out from their sheltered and sunny corner 
by the cottage wall. There they stand in a long array in 
the front of winter aconite, which has little yellow blossoms 
somewhat like the anemone, and is particularly welcome on 
account of the colour it gives to the otherwise pale colour- 
scheme of early spring. 
Next the crocus appears, first the yellow ones — they 
are rather small, as a rule — then the mauve and blue 
varieties, amongst which, I particularly recommend “ King 
of the Blues ” and Purpurea grand/ flora. 
Now comes the turn for a number of other spring bulbs 
planted promiscuously — some earlier, others later — so that 
in the same beds there shall always be some blossoms. 
Nestling against a giant 
boulder is a group of the 
sweet little scilla ; and close 
besides them is a cluster of 
yellow crocus against a 
background of narcissus. 
In the hollow of an old tree- 
stump, right up on the hill, 
The same Rockery in 
June with Daisies and 
Pansies in the fore- 
ground. 
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