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quite hardy, but if there is not much room and 
you want bright colours from February to April 
you could plant it at the back of the garden 
patch against the wall. The flowers are a 
purplish pink, and very sweet. In the warmer 
parts of Britain, and especially near the coast, 
a most useful plant for covering a wall is 
Escallonia macrantha. It has small evergreen 
glossy leaves, and pink tube-like flowers which 
hang in bunches, and is attractive all the year 
round. 
The difficulty of choosing late spring and 
early summer creepers lies in the number of 
things to select from, all beautiful in their 
own way. One of the most lovely in May 
or early June is Clematis Montana. Perhaps 
you know the wild clematis or traveller’s 
joy, which has masses of pale greenish- 
yellow flowers, small and close together, 
with a sweet scent, and is covered with 
fluffy seeds in the autumn. The flowers of 
Clematis Montana also grow in thick masses, 
but though of course just the same shape as the 
wild one, with four petals, they are much larger 
and look like pure dazzling white crosses when 
closely inspected, and seem at a distance to 
be a white waterfall of blossom. Then there 
is Wistaria sinensis, which has long heads of 
light purple flowers, which hang down like 
