4 OCTOBER 1946, Page 15

In My Garden The herbaceous border is wont to become

a rather untidy and sombre ribbon in October, apart from its dahlias, chrysanthemums, montbretias and Michaelmas daisies, which do not all consent to an easy mutual relation with other plants. For this reason I like the tamarisk. If severely cut down it springs up in a feathery faggot, and at the moment both the delicately coloured leaf and flower are at their best, reaching to no greater height than four to five feet. W. BEACH THOMAS.