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GARDENING IN THE SOUTHWEST 
Gardens 
of One 
Dominant 
Color 
Limited 
in Variety 
Some 
Suggested 
Color 
Treatments 
in Tones of 
Yellow 
planting that are edged by a precision of line, tend to create greater 
formality and at the same time constrict the apparent size of the 
garden, rather than enlarge it. 
Altho shades must blend to create harmony, points of con¬ 
trast are needed to excite interest, and lure one to unexpected 
beauty spots. Paths must blend in tone, ground-covers must be un¬ 
obtrusive, and the general panorama, to be aesthetically pleasing, 
must offer both appeal and promise. 
Many favorites must be rejected when a garden of one color 
only is chosen. There are some plants, such as Roses or Zinnias, that 
offer one a range of color-choice that enables almost any desired 
shade to be selected, yet neither offers the blues or the blue-red 
combinations on the color-wheel, that is to say, the range from pale 
lavenders to deep purples. And the chief plants that offer these sel¬ 
dom include the yellows. In fact the white, yellow, red and blues, 
in their range of blends from one into the other are perhaps to be 
found only in the Iris or the Hardy Aster families. Of the Lilies, 
only those of the water-growing branches include the blues, reds, 
white and yellow. So a single-color garden is necessarily limited 
in variety and is restricted to those families of plants that offer 
what is desired. 
Definite color treatments for a season or 
merely for a corner of portion of the gar¬ 
den, are not difficult to secure. If one wishes 
to have a yellow and green garden from 
Spring until frost, one may have Narcissus, 
Daffodils, Jonquils, Tulips, Pansies, Dog¬ 
toothed Violets, Hyacinths, Forsythia and 
Jasmine humile early, followed by sweet- 
scented Scotch Broom (Genista), California 
Poppies, Hemerocallis (Lemon and Orange 
Lilies), Wall-flowers, Gladioli, Cactus Opuntia (Prick¬ 
ly Pear), Daisies, Columbine, Lemon Phlox, Santoline, 
Iris, Cassia and Nasturtiums. Both Bush and Climbing 
Roses offer shades of yellow and most of the bush varie¬ 
ties bloom again in the fall. The Snapdragons, Oenoth- 
