SHRUBS AND FLOWERS 
FOR THE 
FRIENDLY HOUSE FRONT 
ELIZABETH LEONARD STRANG 
Landscape Architect 
A Green and Golden Color Scheme that Creates Sunshine along 
a Northern Exposure and Holds Cheer the Winter Through 
Editors’ Note: For the house facing east, or south, or west this plan is equally applicable in all its essentials and may be worked out in any range or com¬ 
bination of color by merely substituting other varieties of Tulips, Annuals, Lilies, and smaller plants which bear bloom of the desired hue. 
IOUN DATION planting is ever a subject of vital interest 
to the man with a newly built home. Foundations 
must always be more or less softened by a mask of 
foliage, yet such planting must be done with wise dis¬ 
crimination. A house is not to be swathed in billowy masses, 
nor must it stand stark and uncompromising as a New England 
winter; though the latter, to be sure, has at least a dignity to 
covers, little flowering trees, and some few choice shrubs selected 
for flower or fruit (to summarize the elements of the composi¬ 
tion) were fitted into the picture as carefully as the component 
parts of a mosaic. 
Evergreens form the basis of the scheme because of their year- 
round adaptability. With these as a background, there is com¬ 
bined a succession of effective pictures in yellow—dignified and 
cheerful for the north exposure; 
reserving the daintier pinks and 
blues for the flower garden. First, 
saffron Crocus in patches among 
the Pachysandra; early golden 
Tulip Chrysolora; then tall lumi¬ 
nous globes of Moonlight. Senti¬ 
nels of Lemon Lily guard the door, 
their season prolonged by the use 
of early and late varieties. That 
wonderful thick-textured Golden 
Lily (Lilium Hansoni) follows in 
early summer, and the season of 
yellow is rounded out by, in the 
background, tall African Marigolds, 
A DOORWAY THAT INVITES (Left) 
Pyramidal Box in pots, English Ivy on the 
house, dwarf Rhododendrons Boule de Neige 
next to steps flanked by Juniperus Pfitzeriana, 
and at the corner Red Cedar 
CORNER PLANTING FOR QUICK EFFECT 
Somewhat coarser in character than the door¬ 
way planting shown above, this combination of 
Spiraea Vanhouttei and Japanese Barberry does 
away with bare corners and has a certain bold 
charm 
recommend it which the former 
wholly lacks. Any discussion of a 
topic of this kind, to be practical 
and helpful to the individual is best 
handled in the form of specific cases, 
with illustrations, from which the 
reader can draw some lesson to fit 
his own situation. 
The foundation planting shown 
opposite (plan and detail on page 
108) illustrates a more or less intri¬ 
cate effect achieved by studied delib¬ 
eration. Evergreens, vines, ground 
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