. My garden in summer . nduced to grow in our hay meadowsas I have seen it doing in Tyrol, but of course one of therarest plants in alpine meadows is grass, the contents ofour best herbaceous beds and gayest rock gardens formingthe bulk of the hay. Campanula Alliomi is happiest inthe granite-chip moraine, but spreads so far from itscentral point of planting year by year, that I am afraidit will exhaust the soil and die out eventually. Thephotograph reproduced opposite p. 158 shows a planttwo years after it was transferred to this bed from MontCenis. Dianthus microhpis and D. arvergnensis promi
. My garden in summer . nduced to grow in our hay meadowsas I have seen it doing in Tyrol, but of course one of therarest plants in alpine meadows is grass, the contents ofour best herbaceous beds and gayest rock gardens formingthe bulk of the hay. Campanula Alliomi is happiest inthe granite-chip moraine, but spreads so far from itscentral point of planting year by year, that I am afraidit will exhaust the soil and die out eventually. Thephotograph reproduced opposite p. 158 shows a planttwo years after it was transferred to this bed from MontCenis. Dianthus microhpis and D. arvergnensis promise tospread into compact cushions in the chips faster than inordinary soil. The former covers itself with its stemlessblooms three times in each season. D. neglectus andD. alpinus (see plate, p. 154) are not happy in moraine,but both species do well in good border soil in flat pocketsof the rock garden, and D. alpinus generally flowers twicein the Summer, the large rosy flowers hiding its leaves fora week at a time. 156. CHAPTER IX Aquatics So many people say, What splendid opportunities youmust have for Water Lilies and aquatic plants with the NewRiver running through the garden!—so many, in fact,that some day I shall push one of them into it instead ofexplaining that, if I did plant a Water Lily in the River,the Water Boards officials would soon rake it out again,and, even if they did not, it would catch its death of cold,as people used to say when I was young, which was beforethe days of appendicitis and the general recognition ofbacteria as causes of mortality. The New River watercomes chiefly from chalk wells of great depth, and there-fore is hard enough to look blue, and cold enough inSummer to make you look blue if you were in it for , its banks are made of clay, pommelled andpuddled and slapped and banged with wooden slappersto a degree of watertightness, solidity, and neat level ap-pearance that admits of nothing but turf margins. So theRiver is banned, t
Size: 1363px × 1834px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectfloriculture, bookyea
