. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. i6 High Coxlease^ Lyndhurst. satisfying if rightly disposed. We leave High Coxlease with a glance at the garden flowers growing out of a sea of fern, the latter always beautiful, whether in its tender green of spring, its duller hue at midsummer, or its rich and rusty brown in winter, but most of all when the coming of the frost touches the green to brilliant yellow and Nature carpets the forest with an undergrowth of gold. The especial charm of making a flower garden in a forest clearing is that the wilful tribes of Nature can be absorbed
. Gardens for small country houses . Gardens, English. i6 High Coxlease^ Lyndhurst. satisfying if rightly disposed. We leave High Coxlease with a glance at the garden flowers growing out of a sea of fern, the latter always beautiful, whether in its tender green of spring, its duller hue at midsummer, or its rich and rusty brown in winter, but most of all when the coming of the frost touches the green to brilliant yellow and Nature carpets the forest with an undergrowth of gold. The especial charm of making a flower garden in a forest clearing is that the wilful tribes of Nature can be absorbed into the new population, where they will still flaunt their wild and brilliant graces. In such gardens the outlying parts are likely never to be more brilliant than in autumn, when the gold of the furze is glittering everywhere among the darker hues of heather and the fading greens of bracken. Furze is a great ally to the garden colourist, for the large and early varieties are followed by others that are small and late. As the old and pleasant saying runs, gorse is out of bloom only when kissing's out of FIG. it -LILIES AND GABLES AT HIGH Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932; Weaver, Lawrence, Sir, 1876-. London : Published at the offices of Country Life . .. and by George Newnes . .. ; New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
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