MY HERBACEOUS GARDEN 205 
filled last summer with perennials, either on 
probation or growing on, so as to divide into 
three or four times as many in the autumn, 
ready for the herbaceous border. These in- 
cluded such good things as the Bradshaw 
geums, some new Michaelmas daisies, double 
rockets, which, alas ! flowered themselves to 
death, and though cut down directly never 
recovered. Probably a hedge of pink mallows 
will follow them this summer, or perhaps 
Campanula pyramidalis preceded by Canterbury 
bells, both of which are in the nursery borders 
ready to move on. 
These are the chief borders, but there are 
many other narrower ones. A west border, 
planted with Belladonna seedling delphi- 
niums and Shirley poppies, was very pleasing 
last summer. Another is filled with Acanthus 
mollis , with 5-foot spikes of purplish flowers, 
its handsome cut-leaved foliage standing out 
well from a groundwork of saxifrage, Megasea 
cordifolia , and Sedum spectabile , that flower 
beloved of the Red Admiral butterfly. It may 
not be generally known that the blue thistle, 
Echinops euthenicus , attracts queen wasps in 
numbers during August and September, and is 
a happy hunting-ground for the destroyer. 
Other borders are used for growing flowers 
