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The garden that we made (1920)

Margareta, Crown Princess of Sweden, 1882-1920, Settergren, A. Ch., tr · London, The offices of "The Girl's own paper & woman's magazine" · leaf 40

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n charm. On a hot summers-dayit has a cooling effect. This flower-bed is my own work, and I have gatheredtogether : Nepeta mussini, the daintiest among little plants,with grey foliage and purple flowers ; Nepeta macrantha,a taller plant of a similar kind, which never tires of blossoming from June… … Digitized by Microsoft® The Gardenthat We Made lambs ear, with woolly leaves as soft as velvet; theplume poppy [Bocconia cordata), a tall plant which is quiteeasy to cultivate though its homeland is Japan—it bloomsin July ; Yucca Jilameniosa, with white, waxen, bell-shapedflowers and lance-shaped…

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