24 AUGUST 1945, Page 18

In My Garden

How invariably wild plants say " Thank you " for inclusion in a garden! A few harebells transplanted—into a heatherbed—are perhaps three times as floriferous as those twenty yards outside the gate. A wild raspberry put alongside the Lloyd Georges is big and fruitful enough to be mistaken for a popular hybrid. On the other hand, the lovely dwarf wild thyme, as a host of other wildlings, very soon becomes leggy and uncomely. Among the most useful of wild plants in the rough border is the yellow loosestrife. It does not become a bully, and has a longish flowering period. In a damp place the purple loosestrife (of a very different genus)