Colour in the flower garden . ght far above my head. Passing between aclump of Yuccas on either side is the cross-walkleading by an arched gateway through the wall. Theborder beyond this is a shorter length, and has a wholeground of grey foliage—Stachys, Santolina, Elymus,Cineraria maritima, and Sea Kale. Then anothergroup of Rue, with grey-blue foliage and pale yellowbloom, shows near the extreme end against the fullgreen of the young summer foliage of the Yew arbourthat comes at the end of the border. Again at thisend is the tall Campanula lactiflora. In the nearermiddle a large mass of purp
Colour in the flower garden . ght far above my head. Passing between aclump of Yuccas on either side is the cross-walkleading by an arched gateway through the wall. Theborder beyond this is a shorter length, and has a wholeground of grey foliage—Stachys, Santolina, Elymus,Cineraria maritima, and Sea Kale. Then anothergroup of Rue, with grey-blue foliage and pale yellowbloom, shows near the extreme end against the fullgreen of the young summer foliage of the Yew arbourthat comes at the end of the border. Again at thisend is the tall Campanula lactiflora. In the nearermiddle a large mass of purple Clematis is trainedupon stiff, branching spray, and is beginning to showits splendid colour, while behind, and looking theirbest in the subdued light of the cloudy morning onwhich these notes are written, are some plants ofVerbascum phlomoides, ten feet high, showing a greatcloud of pure pale yellow. They owe their vigourto being self-sown seedlings, never of having merely a blooming spike, as is the. o «*} o OSO
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