Sunset . ertainly a recommendation; althoughif you are rash enough to plant bul-rushes or arrowhead in the earth otthe pool, unconfined in boxes, youmay be weeding them out for the restof your natural life. The water lilies,provided only hardy sorts are pur-chased, will endure the winter out-doors if the pool is not drained. Fear-ful gardeners may cover the pool. I have found that rock gardens inUtah are so easy to make in a naturalmanner, if we will only go to tiichills and learn of them. And 1 learned that we have a marvel-ous assortment of native Alpine plantswhich are bound to gr
Sunset . ertainly a recommendation; althoughif you are rash enough to plant bul-rushes or arrowhead in the earth otthe pool, unconfined in boxes, youmay be weeding them out for the restof your natural life. The water lilies,provided only hardy sorts are pur-chased, will endure the winter out-doors if the pool is not drained. Fear-ful gardeners may cover the pool. I have found that rock gardens inUtah are so easy to make in a naturalmanner, if we will only go to tiichills and learn of them. And 1 learned that we have a marvel-ous assortment of native Alpine plantswhich are bound to grow and lU)wcrwell in these rock gardens. Finally, 1 have learned that it isbetter not to try to make an Englishgarden, nor an Italian garden, nor aFrench garden, here in Utah, with itsclimate, position, and soil so individ-ual, but to strive to make a gardensuited to the mountains: a Utah gar-den, blending with the surroundingscenery, using whenever possible thewealth of native plant material. TUNE I 93 5. ^^S^GARDEN :^< A, IN EUGENEOREGON JTERVERSELY enough, I coveted anaturalistic rock garden with a minia-ture waterfall on the back of my lot,which was perfectly level. You see Iwanted to fashion a bit of natural up-and-down woodland scenery in my flatback yard. The prime necessity was, of course,elevation, which I set about creating toorder. About 90 feet back from, andparallel with, the sidewalk, I built aconcrete storehouse for winter vege-tables, measuring 13 feet long, 8 feetwide, and 6 feet high. Next came a concrete retaining wallto extend from a rear corner of thestorehouse curving inward about 14feet, and a similar wall to extend fromthe opposite front corner of the houseabout 10 feet. The latter I finished offto resemble a large, irregular rock. Forthe necessary bank of earth, I exca-vated an area 25 by 60 feet runningbetween the sidewalk and a line 20 feetin front of the storehouse. Thus, whenthe earth was removed, I had not onlymy earth bank elevation, but also t
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