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House & Garden 
Rock Gardening in the Northwest 
On the flanking walls grow cerastiuni, 
Veronica prostrata, rock-roses, ferns 
and heuchera, with roses, shrubs and 
perennials above 
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dark, weathered stones. Violas do not 
seem to be as popular as they deserve, 
for they add variety and color to the 
rockery and extend its season of bloom 
well into summer. Besides the types, 
such as Viola lutea and Viola cornuta, 
there are an endless number of hybrids 
of lovely colors and varying habit of 
growth. 
One Portland place is attractively 
outlined by a low rocky bank, topped 
by a hedge of pale pink hawthorn, a 
thing of exquisite beauty in May. The 
stones, which are old and weathered, 
are nearly covered with greenery. This 
wall contains most of the plants just 
mentioned, with patches of silver-gray 
sedum (Sedum spathulifolium), and the 
pleasing addition of little groups of the 
smaller bulbs, crocuses, snowdrops, etc. 
Here and there a wild strawberry sends 
its runners among the stones and holds 
up a red fruit to passing children. 
The use of terraces gives a good op¬ 
portunity for wall gardening. A subur¬ 
ban garden, containing a row of ter¬ 
races given over to vegetables, dwarf 
fruit trees and annual and perennial 
flowers, has beautifully planted walls. 
Aubrietias, in shades from pale lavender 
to the deepest purple, make vivid 
splashes against the stone. Alyssum, 
both the common sort and a less known 
variety, lemon colored (Alyssum saxa- 
tile citrinum), alternates with patches 
of the startlingly pure white of candy¬ 
tuft and both the single and double 
arabis. Stretches of the walls are 
blanketed with close-clinging thymes 
(Thymus chamcedris and lanuginosus), 
and the rocky slopes are cushioned with 
mossy saxifrages, small sedums and the 
magenta and white varieties of Erinus 
alphtus. 
But wall planting is not all of rock 
gardening, as many charming bits of 
rockwork in Portland prove. One may 
find all kinds, from the small rockery 
occupying a few square yards on a city 
lot to the elaborately built-up garden 
of the connoisseur containing tons of 
rock and hundreds of choice plants. 
In such a garden as this are grown 
the more delicate alpines, gentians, en¬ 
crusted saxifrages, the rarer primulas 
and campanulas, as well as the better 
known species. By skillful arrangement 
of rocks and soil, the exposure and 
situation that each plant requires are 
furnished it, so that alpines from Swiss 
peaks grow quite happily beside the 
native moss and sedums. 
Miniature Gardens 
But quite as lovely effects are ob¬ 
tained in miniature on a small bank of 
well arranged stones and good soil. 
Such a one is found in a small hillside 
garden on Portland Heights, where 
London pride, heuchera, cranesbill, 
mossy saxifrages and all the regular 
favorites make a bright patchwork 
sloping down to the lawn and perennial 
garden. 
Another Portland Heights house, 
looking out over a very high, steep 
slope, is approached by a winding path, 
deeply cut into the bank in places. The 
retaining walls bordering this path are 
hung with the most luxuriant drapery 
of bright flowers, while above them 
perennials and low shrubs carry the eye 
on up to the background of dark firs. 
At the back of the house, a shady rock 
wall and the fir-shaded slope above it 
are used as a setting for numbers of 
charming native plants. 
On seeing such a garden as this, one 
is led to wonder why everybody has 
not one like it. But the reasons are 
natural enough. It is all a compara¬ 
tively new fashion in gardening to us, 
and possibly the majority of people 
are unaware that there exists a class 
of plants peculiarly adapted to growing 
among rocks. Those who do know it 
and have seen rock gardens may have 
gained the impression that it is a diffi¬ 
cult game, an expensive hobby. It need 
not be either difficult or expensive, pro¬ 
vided one is interested enough to give 
time, individual study and labor to it 
himself. 
{Continued on page 60) 
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A well flowered rock wall planted with 
candytuft, alyssum, aubrietia and 
arabis 
