Colour in the flower garden . oob. o OS o Q oft* GARDENS OF SPECIAL COLOURING 103 extremely bright and sunny. A few minutes sufficeto fill the eye with the yellow influence, and then wepass to the Blue garden, where there is another delight-ful shock of eye-pleasure. The brilliancy and purityof colour are almost incredible. Surely no blueflowers were ever so blue before ! That is the impres-sion received. For one thing, all the blue flowersused, with the exception of Eryngium and Clematisdavidiana, are quite pure blues ; these two are grey-blues. There are no purple-blues, such as the bluestof
Colour in the flower garden . oob. o OS o Q oft* GARDENS OF SPECIAL COLOURING 103 extremely bright and sunny. A few minutes sufficeto fill the eye with the yellow influence, and then wepass to the Blue garden, where there is another delight-ful shock of eye-pleasure. The brilliancy and purityof colour are almost incredible. Surely no blueflowers were ever so blue before ! That is the impres-sion received. For one thing, all the blue flowersused, with the exception of Eryngium and Clematisdavidiana, are quite pure blues ; these two are grey-blues. There are no purple-blues, such as the bluestof the Campanulas and the perennial Lupines ; theywould not be admissible. With the blues are a fewwhite and palest yellow flowers; the foam-whiteClematis recta, a delightful foil to Delphinium Bella-donna ; white perennial Lupine with an almond-likesoftness of white ; Sftircea Aruncus, another foam-coloured flower. Then milk-white Tree Lupine, inits carefully decreed place near the bluish foliage ofRue and Yucca. Then there is the
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