Wilder, Louise Beebe, 1878-1938 · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page · leaf 125
COLOUR IN MY GARDEN time of its fulness and beauty. There should be white and purple Persian Lilacs, all these gracious free-growing Roses, masses of soft-coloured Lupines and Irises, spreads of mediating gray foliage and trails of spicy Pinks, soft- coloured Nepeta and Stachys. The accompanying… … The free-growing Roses require no pruning beyond the thinning out of old or dead wood and the shortening of frost-nipped branches. The briers, Harison’s Yellow, Per- sian Yellow, and Stanwell’s Perpetual, are most effective when planted rather close together in groups of three, as their growth is…
Gardens · Color
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