The livable house, its garden . sheets of bloom will conceal a greatmany defects in design; but the flowers are passing, and may bechanged at any time, whereas a garden once laid out is often im-possible to alter. Color and season are the two factors in flower arrangementwhich must be considered simultaneously. If one has planned tohave no red in the garden at the same time pink flowers are inbloom, it is disconcerting to have the scarlet of oriental poppiesflaunt itself in the face of a rose pink peony. Red is, in any event,the greatest trouble maker in the garden, and when one has madeup one
The livable house, its garden . sheets of bloom will conceal a greatmany defects in design; but the flowers are passing, and may bechanged at any time, whereas a garden once laid out is often im-possible to alter. Color and season are the two factors in flower arrangementwhich must be considered simultaneously. If one has planned tohave no red in the garden at the same time pink flowers are inbloom, it is disconcerting to have the scarlet of oriental poppiesflaunt itself in the face of a rose pink peony. Red is, in any event,the greatest trouble maker in the garden, and when one has madeup ones mind to have the warmth of this color everything elsemust be planned around it; moreover, no two reds are alike, and ared garden must consist almost wholly of one flower or at leastof the one which happens to be in bloom at the moment. Con-sternation is in store for the jumbler of reds—one has only tothink of the cardinal of lobelia, and the good honest turkey red ofscarlet sage ablaze at once to realize this. [92] G a d n. •^ -^ « ^**> -v fir •>7< <»< A GARDEN WITH A NATURAL FORESTBACKGROUND Estate of Mr. Charles W. Hubbard, at Weston, MassachusettsOlmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects [93] The Livable House The fewer the varieties of any color in a garden, the greaterare the pictorial effects obtainable, and a good plan to follow isto pick out a succession of twos, which will be blooming at once,and plant the garden all round with groups of these. For ex-ample, a succession consisting of the following pairs: pink peoniesand blue anchusa, yellow coreopsis and the resplendent blue lark-spur, purple spikes of veronica and pink phlox, lavender astersand bronze dahlias, provides the garden with a series of colorcombinations which should be very lovely from May until frost;the overlapping of seasons—for of course some few flow^ers ofeach group will come into bloom before the preceding group isdone, and the coreopsis and larkspur will flowxr more or less
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