The Garden 
that We Made 
A background of Fox- 
gloves. 
of daffodils ; later on there are calendula. Their 
glowing yellow against the grey granite is one of 
the most glorious sights imaginable. The long, 
narrow flower-beds are divided into squares, each 
square being devoted to one kind of flower. In 
the centre, under an old plum tree, there is a 
seat from which one can enjoy the sight of the 
flowers— the border of portulaca ; the deep blue 
Anchusa Italica Dropmore ; the salmon-pink 
Dianthus barbatus ; the low-stemmed Campanula 
carpatica ; the red lychnis ; heuchera, with flaming-red 
blossoms ; the tall perenial autumn asters ; the brilliant 
golden rudbeckia ; here also one can enjoy the white rocket, 
and the huge marguerites ; and not the least amongst one’s 
pleasures is that derived from the sight of the Canterbury 
bells in different shades of blue and pink. 
A Garden on a 
Rocky Island. 
Last spring we began to alter the steep hillside into a 
rockery of a different character from the ones just described. 
Since the one solid rock constituted all we wanted in the 
way of stone, and since the rocks of the Archipelago 
islands are both terraced and broken by crevices in which 
one can put plants, our work consisted in improving the 
soil, enlarging the existing natural “flower-beds,” and 
adding to the grass and wild ilowers which already existed ; 
also we had to bank up the earth, and thus secure the soil 
against rains that would wash it away ; this we did by 
means of cement. Such cement-edges must be as narrow 
and invisible as one can manage it ; but they are not 
difficult to make, and I know this from my own personal 
experiments. 
We planted aubretia, Alyssum saxalile with its bright 
yellow blossoms, Arabis alpina and Dianthus plumarius (a 
very pretty little variety of Dianthus ), foxgloves, “ mother 
of millions,” primroses, different kinds of stonecrops, white, 
yellow and blue, anemone, pansies, periwinkle, Crucianella 
stylosa , nasturtiums, different kinds of phlox, such as nivalis , 
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