Identifier: homegardennotest00jeky (find matches)
Title: Home and garden; notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a worker in both
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Jekyll, Gertrude, 1843-1932
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Publisher: London, New York, Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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combination of sunand sand, the pretty little Sisyrinchium Bermudiana.With the Catmint should be associated the hand-some herb Hyssop, fuU of its purple flower-spikesin early autumn; a plant that seems to have asingular attraction for the pale-brown bumble-bees.Oriental Poppies like the light ground if deeplyworked, and so do the greater number of the flag-leaved Irises. These are best divided and trans-planted every fourth year; their rhizomes grow fast,and if left longer, crowd upon one another soclosely that the roots cannot find nourishment ;they then make known their discomfort by refusingto flower and by showing starved-looking foliage. A very pretty plant is Stdbcea purpurea; it welldeserves to be better known and more often grown.It has prickly, silvery, rather Thistle-like foHage,but the flower, instead of being disappointinglysmall in proportion to the plant as in Thistles, iswide open like a large loose Daisy, and its colour,the faintest tinge of purple pervading white, is
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PLANTS FOR POOR SOILS 197 both lovely in itself and in relation to the colourof the leaves. The radical leaves are rather largeand spreading; the flower stems, each bearing fromtwelve to fifteen of the large blooms, are three feethigh and richly ornamented, for they are clothedwith a leafy growth, handsomely waved and scal-loped and spine-edged, just as if each of the longstalk-leaves grew on to the stem by its mid-ribfor half its length or more. Gaultheria Shallon must not be forgotten amongdwarf shrubs that will flourish in sand. It is slowto move when first planted, but like many plantsthat run underground, it grows and spreads fastwhen well established. It has the unusual meritof doing well under trees, and will even grow underScotch Firs, though not perhaps under their deepestshade. And sand-loving is the sweet wild Thymeand its garden varieties, and others of the dwarfsweet-herbs, whose fragrant merit is so great that itshould not be wasted by their being grown only inthe kitche

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