5 DECEMBER 1947, Page 14

In my Garden A most useful plant, the dwarf Plumbago

Larpentz, more pleasingly but less frequently called Leadwort, has excelled itself. The beautiful blue flowers, very slightly empurpled, were flourishing in mid-November, and the leaves still show a bright red patch on an else bare bed. It is invaluable in certain quarters, and it spreads itself, it may be even exces- sively. In flower almost alongside it are cornflowers and marigolds, both sown absurdly late in the season, but indicating the advantage of succes- sional sowings, a duty more often recognised in the vegetable than the