. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. Mixed borders and rock gardens. 159 adapted for the mixed border are the double white Achillea Ptarmica The Pearl, Peruvian Lilies, or Alstroemerias, both the hybrid section, whose flowers range through gentle colour gradations from cream to crimson, and the orange-blossomed A. aurea ; the hybr d Aquilegias, with their graceful, long-spurred flowers, whose yellow and white cups are shown off by wide perianths of purple, blue, grey, scarlet, pink, and flesh colour, and which form exquisite pi
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. Mixed borders and rock gardens. 159 adapted for the mixed border are the double white Achillea Ptarmica The Pearl, Peruvian Lilies, or Alstroemerias, both the hybrid section, whose flowers range through gentle colour gradations from cream to crimson, and the orange-blossomed A. aurea ; the hybr d Aquilegias, with their graceful, long-spurred flowers, whose yellow and white cups are shown off by wide perianths of purple, blue, grey, scarlet, pink, and flesh colour, and which form exquisite pictures when grown in breadths. These plants should be raised annually from seed and planted in the border during their second autumn, when they will provide a far finer display than if the old plants are allowed to remain another year. Coreopsis grandiflora, which produces a profusion of large bright, yellow flowers, is one of the most useful plants for the mixed border, as it comes into bloom at the end of May and continues its display through the summer, while Gaillardia grandiflora is equally decorative. Centaurea macrocephala, with its great yellow flower heads, is a striking subject planted well back" in the bed, as is the Globe Thistle (Echinops Ritro), while the Sea Hollies, Eryngium amethystinum and E. Oliverianum, provide a steely-blue that is quite unique in the border. Chi vsogonum virginianum is attractive when bearing its yellow flowers in the spring, and Chelona barbata when it perfects its spires of drooping orange scarlet flowers in the summer. The Dav Lilies are handsome both in flower and leafage, the earliest of them, Hemerocallis flava, bearing clear yellow, scented flowers. This is followed by the stronger- growing, orange buff H. fulva, the double H. Kwanso, w ith strikingly variegated foliage, and. FLOWER BORDER WITH BOX EDGING. the late introduction, H. aurantiaca major, a very vigorous variety, bearing eight or ten flowers on a stem, some of these
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