BLUE GARDENS 
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bought and planted in dark peaty soil, half 
shaded, and not damp. It is 1 8 inches to 2 feet 
high, with china-blue bells and brilliant glaucous 
foliage. Mertensia echioides , a few inches high 
and of a rich blue, flowers continually through 
the summer and autumn. This and the litho- 
spermum, Heavenly Blue, and purpurea-cceru - 
leum could be planted in masses in the front of 
the border, with Veronica saxatilis flowering a 
little later, and gentian as an outer edge. 
Myosotis palustris in the newer form does 
remarkably well as a carpet plant, and does 
not require the cool ditch or stream it is 
usually associated with. From amongst it 
a group of Veronica amethystina would look 
well, backed by Salvia Tenori , a perfectly hardy 
dark or indigo-blue salvia ; while Linum narbo- 
nense and L . perenne , the first sky-blue, the 
second cobalt blue, are about the same height 
(1 to 2 feet). Next to these, and running 
further back, might come a planting of Anchusa 
Opal — a very graceful plant of light branching 
habit, and much paler than its companion, 
Anchusa Dropmore, growing 3 to 4 feet high ; 
while noble groups of Delphinium belladonna 
and its seedlings would carry on the same 
shade of cobalt. 
A couple of plants of variegated comfrey 
