CHAPTER XV.
SELECTIONS OF HARDY EXOTIC PLANTS FOR VARIOUS POSITIONS IN THE WILD GARDEN 163
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Colonies of Poet’s Narcissus and Broad–leaved Saxifrage, etc. _Frontispiece_
Columbine and Geraniums in meadow–grass v
Large flowered Meadow Rue in the Wild Garden, type of plant mostly excluded from the Garden 1
Night effect of large evening Primrose in the Wild Garden (Œnothera Lamarkiana) _To face page_ 4
A “mixed border” with tile edging, the way in which the beautiful hardy flowers of the world have been grown in gardens hitherto, when grown at all. (_Sketched in a large garden, 1878_) 5
Blue flowered Composite plant; fine foliage and habit; type of noble plants excluded from Gardens. (Mulgedium Plumieri) 6
Wood Anemone 8
Caucasian Comfrey in shrubbery 9
The Cretan Borage (Borago cretica) 12
Flowers of Geneva Bugle (Ajuga genevensis), Dwarf Boragewort 14
Star of Bethlehem in Grass 15
The association of exotic and British wild flowers in the Wild Garden.—The Bell–flowered Scilla, naturalised with our own Wood Hyacinth 16
The Turk’s Cap Lily, naturalised in the grass by wood–walk 19
Crocuses in turf, in grove of Summer leafing trees 20
Group of Globe flowers (Trollius) in marshy place; type of the nobler Northern flowers little cultivated in gardens 21
The Mountain Clematis (C. montana) 22
The White Japan Anemone in the Wild Garden 23
Anemones in the Riviera. Thrive equally well in any open soil here, only flowering later _To face page_ 24
The Green Hellebore in the Wild Garden 26
Tall perennial Larkspurs, naturalised in Shrubbery (1878) 28
Double Crimson Pæonies in grass 30
Eupatorium purpureum 32
The Giant Scabious (8 feet high). (Cephalaria procera) 32
Giant Cow parsnip. Type of Great Siberian herbaceous vegetation. For rough places only 35
Foliage of Dipsacus, on hedge–bank in spring 36
The large white Bindweed, type of nobler climbing plants, with annual stems. For copses, hedgerows, and shrubberies 39
The Nootka Bramble; type of free–growing flowering shrub. For copses and woods 40
The Yellow Allium (A. Moly) naturalised 42
Periploca græca (climber) 43
Large White Clematis on Yew tree at Great Tew. (C. montana grandiflora) 45
The way the climbing plants of the world are crucified in gardens—winter effect (_a faithful sketch_) 45
Climbing shrub (Celastrus), isolated on the grass; way of growing woody Climbers away from walls or other supports 47
A Liane in the North. Aristolochia and Deciduous Cypress 48
A beautiful accident.—A colony of Myrrhis odorata, established in shrubbery, with white Harebells here and there 51
Large White Achilleas spread into wide masses under shade of trees in shrubbery 53
Lilies coming up through carpet of White Arabis 56
Colony of Narcissus in properly spaced shrubbery 57
The American White Wood–Lily (Trillium grandiflorum) in Wild Garden, in wood bottom in leaf–mould _To face page_ 58
The Lily of the Valley in a copse 63
Solomon’s Seal and Herb Paris, in copse by streamlet 67
Colony of hardy exotic Flowers, naturalised by brook–side 70
Valley in Somersetshire, with Narcissi, Marsh Marigolds, and Primroses _To face page_ 70
Cyperus longus 73
The Cape Pond Weed in an English ditch in winter 75
Day Lily by margin of water 76
Marsh Marigold and Iris in early spring 78
The same spot as in previous sketch, with aftergrowth of Iris, Meadow Sweet, and Bindweed 79
Partridge Berry (Gaultheria) 80
Wild Rose growing on a Pollard Ash in Orchardleigh Park, Somerset 83
White Climbing Rose scrambling over old Catalpa Tree _To face page_ 84
Climbing Rose isolated on grass 87
Arenaria balearica, in a hole in wall at Great Tew 88
Cheddar Pink, Saxifrage, and Ferns, on cottage wall at Mells 89
The Yellow Fumitory on wall (Corydalis lutea) 91
Large Japan Sedum (S. spectabile) and Autumn Crocuses in the Wild Garden 92
Crane’s Bill, wild, in grass 94
Large–leafed Saxifrage in the Wild Garden 95
Tiger Lilies in Wild Garden at Great Tew _To face page_ 98
Large–flowered Clematis 102
Sun Roses (Cistus) and other exotic hardy plants among heather, on sandy slope _To face page_ 104
Wood and herbaceous Meadow–sweets grouped together in Mr. Hewittson’s garden 105
Woodruff and Ivy 108
Tailpiece 110
Dug and mutilated Shrubbery in St. James’s Park. _Sketched in winter of 1879_ 111
Colony of the Snowdrop–Anemone in Shrubbery not dug. Anemone taking the place of weeds or bare earth 115
Colony of the Summer Snowflake, on margin of shrubbery 119
The Monkshood, naturalised by wet ditch in wood 121
The white Narcissus–like Allium, in the orchards of Provence; type of family receiving little place in gardens which may be beautiful for a season in wild places 123
The Alpine Windflower (Anemone alpina) 124
Siberian Columbine in rocky place 126
Tall Asphodel in copse 127
The foliage of the Meadow Saffron in Spring 132
The White–flowered European Clematis (C. erecta) 133
Cyclamens in the Wild Garden; from nature 134
A South European Bindweed creeping up the stems of an Iris in an English garden 135
A Sea Holly; Eryngium 138
Groups of Funkia Sieboldi 140
A hardy Geranium 141
Snowdrops, wild, by streamlet in valley 142
Sun Rose on limestone rocks 144
White Lily in Wild Garden 146
Everlasting Pea, creeping up stem in shrubbery 148
Type of fine–leaved umbellate plants seldom grown in gardens 149
The Bee Balm, Monarda. American wood plant 150
The Great Japan Knotweed (Polygonum cuspidatum). (Showing the plant in flower) 152
Phlomis. Type of handsome Labiates; admirably suited for the Wild Garden 153
The tall Ox–eye daisy (Pyrethrum serotinum) 154
The Great Reed of Southern Europe (Arundo Donax) 155
Telekia. Type of the Larger Composites, excluded from gardens proper 159
Group of Tritoma, in grass 160
A tall Mullein 161
Ophrys in grass 163
Rock steps with Omphalodes 175
Butterbur and Double Furze on margin of lake 176
THE WILD GARDEN.
ONE WAY ONWARDS FROM THE DARK AGES OF FLOWER–GARDENING.