ROCK GARDENING

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 75, 30 March 1933, Page 17

ROCK GARDENING

(By T.. W. Attwood.j

J'he rock garden ivill soon bo losing some of its gay colour, but if ail, seed stalks and dead flowers can be removed the absence of colours bright need not mean a drab appearance; so much of rock garden foliage is so beautiful in -itself, for we can have all shades of grey, silver grey, yellows, browns, greens, and bronzes, and we stil have quite a number of Sedums still to bloom, the.showy f!. ■ spectabile among (hem. S. gigantium is just now at its best, and of the medium-sized varieties S eoecinium is making a splendid- show. Among the autumn, annuals occasional pockets of dwarf ageratum, Petunia, le-gcns, the many coloured Portiilaca ami dwarf antirrhinums in self shades of sulphur, pmk, and dark red, and v few other varieties will keep things bright a few weeks longer. Two or three special favourites must be mentioned for they have bioomed month after month consistently, all flat-grmvin" plants with rich dark .green foliage and flowers ot red, white, and blue, Verbena, small red or scarlet; Nierembergia rivut t b!te' and Lithos Permum Pi'o-

-There are two other bulbs -we• strongly recommend for the rock garden. "Lache- ™' a il ni C "G}' ape Hyacinth," heavenly blue. These should be planted right <n\ay in similar conditions as required for freesia s. ' > -

"s°n f°VSet-me-note dwar' varieties, like Euth Jiolur," "Princess Victoria," and the Chinese variety, . "cynoglossom," Alyssum savatile," "sun rock roses" (Hehantnemums), "primula . japoniea " primula halacoides," and "Linaria."

Cardinal Bourne, who has been" gravely m, is the fifth English cardinal since the information, bis predecessors having been "Wiseman. Manning, Jfewmanj! and Vaughan. He has never been, a pblitieal partisan. He. is a true Londoner, and he is never happy out of London.. .