. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Highmount, Guildford. 53 The strong calcareous loam is also favourable, and the position in the joints between the stones, giving shelter and protection from wet to the crown of the plant, made it possible to use plants that would otherwise not be hardy. Conspicuously beautiful at Highmount, though so lately planted, is the tender South Italian Campanula isophylla, usually grown in greenhouses and not hardy in the open, though here in rampant growth and fullest health and development. Looking up the double flight of steps from the rose garden across
. Gardens for small country houses. Gardens. Highmount, Guildford. 53 The strong calcareous loam is also favourable, and the position in the joints between the stones, giving shelter and protection from wet to the crown of the plant, made it possible to use plants that would otherwise not be hardy. Conspicuously beautiful at Highmount, though so lately planted, is the tender South Italian Campanula isophylla, usually grown in greenhouses and not hardy in the open, though here in rampant growth and fullest health and development. Looking up the double flight of steps from the rose garden across the square tank from C (Fig. 59), a patch of this fine campanula shows on the right; the same group comes to the left of the picture in the angle view from D (Fig. 61). A further view from E shows another patclr on the. FIG. 65.—THE WEST END OF THE PERGOLA, FROM VIEW POINT "g" ON GENERAL PLAN (FIG. 56). face of the wall, with a group of nepeta (the pretty purple catmint) above and the Algerian Iris stylosa at the wall foot (Fig. 62). The garden-houses, standing on the north side of the tennis lawn, will, in time, be pleasantly framed by the vines planted on the pergolas which bound and roof the two flights of steps giving access to the tennis lawn from the end of the main pergola and the garden above (Fig. 64). The building on the right has a nearly flat roof of corrugated iron, whose unsightliness has been veiled by a coating of earth and a planting of stone- crops. Above the buildings is the garden of spring flowers, where, besides all the other good things, it is a yearly joy to see the wonderful vigour and bloom of the wall- flowers. All the crucijercB rejoice in a hmy soil—stocks, wallflowers, iberis, alyssum, sethionema, with others of the same large botanical family, on such a soil are seen. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustr
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