Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . s at the base of a wall on the cool the upper part of the wall are various Ferns, andthat interesting plant. Wall Pennywort (Cotyledon Um-bilicus). It is a native plant, but not found in thisneighbourhood; I brought it from Cornwall, where itis so plentiful in the chinks of the granite sows itself and grows afresh year after year, though Ialways fear to lose it in one of our dry summers. Nextcomes the common London Pride, which I think quitethe most beautiful of the Saxifrages of this se
Wood and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur . s at the base of a wall on the cool the upper part of the wall are various Ferns, andthat interesting plant. Wall Pennywort (Cotyledon Um-bilicus). It is a native plant, but not found in thisneighbourhood; I brought it from Cornwall, where itis so plentiful in the chinks of the granite sows itself and grows afresh year after year, though Ialways fear to lose it in one of our dry summers. Nextcomes the common London Pride, which I think quitethe most beautiful of the Saxifrages of this section. Ifit was a rare thing, what a fuss we should make aboutit! The place is a little dry for it, but all the same,it makes a handsome spreading tuft hanging over theface of the wall. When its pink cloud of bloom is atits best, I always think it the prettiest thing in thegarden. Then there is the Yellow Everlasting (Gna-phalium orientale), a fine plant for the upper edge ofthe wall, and even better on the sunny side, and thewhite form of Campanula ccespitosa, with its crowd of. Erinus alpinus, clothing Steps in Rock-Wall. SEPTEMBER 121 delicate little white bells rising in June, from theneatest fohage of tender but lively green. Then followdeep-hanging curtains of YeUow Alyssum and of hybridrock Pinks. The older plants of Alyssum are nearlyworn out, but there are plenty of promismg yoimg seed-lings in the lower joints. Throughout the waU there are patches of PolypodyFern, one of the best of cool waU-plants, its creepingroot-stock always feeling its way along the joints, andsteadily furnishing the wall with more and more of itsneat fronds; it is all the more valuable for being at itsbest in early winter, when so few ferns are to be year, in some bare places, I sow a little seed ofErinus alpinus, always trying for places where it willfollow some other kind of plant, such as a place whererock Pink or Alyssum has been. All plants are the betterfor this sort of change.
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