MY HERBACEOUS GARDEN 201 
middle of the enclosure of roses are 12 feet 
wide herbaceous borders 60 feet long. 
The one on the left is planted entirely with 
blue flowers in all shades, and with cream, 
primrose, and white. Blue is very difficult to 
manage with other colours, but looks delight- 
ful if yon get a vivid cobalt against a pure 
primrose, such as Delphinium Persimmon , with 
the yellow tree lupin, or the azure Nemesia 
and milk-white foxglove. At the further end 
it changes from the vivid and strong colourings 
of anchusa, larkspurs, and commelinas, and 
with good masses of such plants as white 
phlox and creamy bergamot, merges into the 
grey hues of echinops, eryngiums, campanulas, 
and scabious. 
The border is slightly raised, with a stone 
edging, and here gentians, Plumbago Lar- 
pentce , Omphalodes verna , Asperula tinctoria , 
white pinks, and other low-growing things 
are quite happy in the front row, the lovely 
tiny blue sedum being sown among them 
yearly. 
The right-hand border shades from the 
greys and mauves of nepeta (catmint), lupins, 
and galega, and the pinks of pimpernel, 
sidalcea, phlox (Mrs Oliver), up to the crimson 
of spiraea and bergamot, the purple of Salvia 
