The garden that we made . haded corners along with fuchsias, fox-gloves, thalictrum (or meadow rue) and the attractive littleAnomatheca criienta, with its orchid-looking blossoms. It is a curious fact, and one worth mentioning, thatsuch delicate plants as the greyish blue Ceanotlms Gloire deVersailles, the dark blue Buddleia vcitchiana and Opiintia(a kind of cactus), have stood the winter with us year afteryear, without being hurt by the frost. I could easily give you many more names, give many more descriptions of flower-beds and give more advice ; but I believe my hints are sufficient for an
The garden that we made . haded corners along with fuchsias, fox-gloves, thalictrum (or meadow rue) and the attractive littleAnomatheca criienta, with its orchid-looking blossoms. It is a curious fact, and one worth mentioning, thatsuch delicate plants as the greyish blue Ceanotlms Gloire deVersailles, the dark blue Buddleia vcitchiana and Opiintia(a kind of cactus), have stood the winter with us year afteryear, without being hurt by the frost. I could easily give you many more names, give many more descriptions of flower-beds and give more advice ; but I believe my hints are sufficient for anybody who would like to work as I have worked. I ought to mention that Buddleia veitchiana in ^g have Very few of the carly spring flowers in our garden, since we always aim at havinga profusion of blossoms duringJune, July, and August. My ChildrensGarden. Not far from the rockery,and at the very crest of thehill, is the garden, playground, White Stonecrop andSaxifraga Umbrosa intlie foreground, withDaisies behind. 45 Digitized by IVIicrosoft® The Gardenthat We Made A pale blue Clematis:lanuginosa. ubB^P^^^^Rl^ ]^K^^ vubihl . T^^^^s itK^^^KB^^M >.. qPB^^^Mif^ Ji ^Smtl^B39f^^^B>^l^ ^^iUSi and little cottage belongingto our children. Theyattend to the ground, dig,plant, water, and weed itthemselves. And not only that, theyeven made a rockery oftheir own, having found outwhat a source of pleasure arockery is. That is, of course, a miniature one, with plants partly from ourrockery, partly wild flowers that have grown there justof their own accord, and wild flowers that they havefound in the woods and along hedge-rows. As I mentionedin another article, wherever they find a pretty wild flower,they immediately transplant it to the rockery, where every-thing seems to thrive and flourish. The garden, witha neat little fence, forms a typical setting to a countrycottage, and outside the fence is the rockery very appro-priately arranged on the slope of the hill. The flowers
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