Garden planning and planting . re plain rounds, squares, etc., so itis well to devote extra consideration and care to the latter, in orderto show off the bedding plants to best advantage. Diamonds large or small look well planted as indicated by dots in 68 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING Figs. 6 and 7 (p. 7(i). The first might be of peach-coloured dwarfAsters, with yellow Marguerites for the largest plants, and Beet orColeuses to form the ring in the middle. A very original and charmingcolour harmony will then result. A plan to carry out this pattern ina small bed would be to use pale pinkish mau
Garden planning and planting . re plain rounds, squares, etc., so itis well to devote extra consideration and care to the latter, in orderto show off the bedding plants to best advantage. Diamonds large or small look well planted as indicated by dots in 68 GARDEN PLANNING AND PLANTING Figs. 6 and 7 (p. 7(i). The first might be of peach-coloured dwarfAsters, with yellow Marguerites for the largest plants, and Beet orColeuses to form the ring in the middle. A very original and charmingcolour harmony will then result. A plan to carry out this pattern ina small bed would be to use pale pinkish mauve Violas, yellow Astersor cream Stocks for the eight chief ])lants, with a ring^ of second diamond filling is for a ground of gold Violas and dotplants of white and crimson dwarf Asters ; the outer lines look bestof the white. A plain oval bed, such as Fig. 4, may be scarlet Phlox Drummondi,with a centre oval of white Stocks and an edging line of either dwarf o o o ^ o oo oo ooOoo Oo Oo oooo oo oo oo O OoOOOO oOOO. FIG. 1 FIG. 2 white Asters or white Violas. In a giant bed the ground could bepink double Geraniums, the centre dot plants white Nicotianas, andthe edging ones white Begonias. A bed all composed of dwarf blueCornflower, with dot plants of the fern-leaved variety of GoldenFeather, proved very pretty. Ordinary long-shaped beds, like Figs. 1 and 8, are generally mostsuccessful when most simply filled. The first is lovely when madewith the variegated Sweet Alyssum and the pattern done with redBegonias. A giant bed could have a ground of purple Stocks orAsters and the pattern of white Marguerites. The second style offilling is well adapted for crimson scarlet Geraniums on a ground of(jrolden Feather, or can be beautifully composed of white Violas,with dot plants of orange Iceland Poppies or gold Calceolarias. Hound beds of any size can be filled on the simple plan of Fig. the ground ia of scarlet double Geraniums and the dot plants ELABORATE DESIGNS 69 p
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