Colour in the flower garden . hill-side in full sun, so steep as to bealmost precipitous, with walls of bare rock only brokenby ledges that can be planted. I would have greatgroups of Yucca standing up against the sky and othersin the rock-face, and some bushes of this greatEuphorbia and only a few other plants, all of ratherlarge grey effect; Phlotnis, Lavender, Rosemary andCistus, with Othonna hanging down in long sheetsover the bare face of the warm rock. It would be arock-garden on an immense scale, planted as Natureplants, with not many different things at a restriction to a few
Colour in the flower garden . hill-side in full sun, so steep as to bealmost precipitous, with walls of bare rock only brokenby ledges that can be planted. I would have greatgroups of Yucca standing up against the sky and othersin the rock-face, and some bushes of this greatEuphorbia and only a few other plants, all of ratherlarge grey effect; Phlotnis, Lavender, Rosemary andCistus, with Othonna hanging down in long sheetsover the bare face of the warm rock. It would be arock-garden on an immense scale, planted as Natureplants, with not many different things at a restriction to a few kinds of plants would givethe impression of spontaneous growth ; of that large,free, natural effect that is so rarely achieved in arti-ficial planting. Besides natural hillsides, there mustbe old quarries within or near the pleasure-groundsof many places in our islands where such a scheme ofplanting could worthily be carried PART OF THE GARLAND ROSE AT THE ANGLE CHAPTER V THE JUNE GARDEN Beyond the lawn and a belt of Spanish Chestnut Ihave a little cottage that is known as the Hut. Ilived in it for two years while my house was building,and may possibly live in it again for the sake of re-plenishing an over-drained exchequer, if the idealwell-to-do invalid flower-lover or some such very quietsummer tenant, to whom alone I could consent tosurrender my dear home for a few weeks, should bepresented by a kind Providence. Meanwhile it isalways in good use for various purposes, such as seed-drying, pot-pourri preparing, and the like. The garden in front and at the back is mainly aJune garden. It has Peonies, Irises, Lupines, andothers of the best flowers of the season, and a few forlater blooming. The entrance to the Hut is throughYews that arch overhead. Close to the right is a tallHolly with a Clematis montana growing into it andtumbling out at the top. The space of garden to theleft, being of too deep a shape
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