The livable house, its garden . tter one group into thenext. Color arrangement of this sort of border is complicated anddifficult to manage effectively. Miss Gertrude Jekyll, a very ablewriter about English gardens, has taken up very fully in her bookcalled Color in the Flower Garden, the graduation of color ina border. Miss Jekyll says that it is possible to plant, beginningwith yellow through orange and red to pink, purple, violet, andblue—and this is undoubtedly true of one of those illimitableEnglish borders which seem to stretch away to infinity. Un-fortunately American gardens are sadly
The livable house, its garden . tter one group into thenext. Color arrangement of this sort of border is complicated anddifficult to manage effectively. Miss Gertrude Jekyll, a very ablewriter about English gardens, has taken up very fully in her bookcalled Color in the Flower Garden, the graduation of color ina border. Miss Jekyll says that it is possible to plant, beginningwith yellow through orange and red to pink, purple, violet, andblue—and this is undoubtedly true of one of those illimitableEnglish borders which seem to stretch away to infinity. Un-fortunately American gardens are sadly lacking in borders four-teen or fifteen feet wide and three hundred feet long. For themost part our gardens are small, and it has been my sad expe-rience that some of the vivid zinnias have been just as blightingseparated from the pink phlox by a patch of white as they wouldhave been next door to it. In any garden, all of which is visibleat once, it is best to limit the flowers to varieties which harmonize, [96] / t s G a d n. [97] T h L i V a b I H o u
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