In the Garden
A low rough bank in.a garden too spacious for much close cultivation is very lovely at this date with a commixture of dwarf Martagon lilies and yellow Loosestrife. This Loose- strife (which has no botanical relation to the purple Loosestrife, so called) is a useful garden plant. Its colours are bright and pleasant, it flowers for a long period, and it is not so rampageous as to be a serious menace. It may be classed, say, with Sisyrinchium, also in flower at this date, which is well worth growing, at any rate in the semi-wild, in spite of its inordinate capacity for producing seedlings. Magnificent at this date in some rough gardens is the so- called Giant Hemlock. It is of course not so beautiful as Lilium Giganteum, say ; but that dies, and this great vulgar Kex grows bigger and finer with age. It carries today a number of flower heads each a foot across on stems up to twelve feet and more and the leaves put a coarse rhubarb to shame. Its delight in shade suggests the best places for its
Previous page
