Noble-Leaved Hardy Plants.
A coirespondent of tho'Garden calls attention to the utility of this class of plants, where gardening is carried out on a largo scale. "At this place (Leonardslee) there isionasteopsljps a large woodland garden full of i est and beauty. Down in its lowest depths, where springs abound and the i ground is entirely covored with Moss, where Royal and other Ferns luxuriate a giant Gunnera scabra, twelve feet through, was growing The pknk hud rich soil, abundance of moisture, and a situation where no winds could tear its massive leaves, which too six feet in diameter. But tho Gunneras are not the only effective hardy plants, Whilst many have given a trial 0 n a small or large scale to the system called shb-tropical gardening, whicjr>"
was lo show beauty of form in the open ail' in summer by use of very tender plants, few havo done anything to create lino aspects of vegetation with plants quite as stately, yot perfectly hardy. 11l largo places about the grounds there occur many nooks, into which types of hardy vegetation of a stately and almost tropical character can ho introduced. There are tho great Cow Parsnips (Heracleums), with bold masses of handsome foliago and great spikes of flowers six feet to ten feet high. One or two great groups of these in an open situation, but half surrounded by free branching native trees, wo'ild be a grand feature. This, in fact, is the only way of using these plants in gardens, as on no account must they be admitted to the borders, and oven wbero they are they will seed feeely, and need watching to see that thoy do not extend or increase too fast, The great Rhubarbs would here find a home, and with such noblo and beautiful plants there could bo no objection if it were necessary to give them a good start in life by somo little preparation of tho site, for success in this work mainly depends upon whether the subjects so treated start away well at onco or arc hampered and restricted, Crambe cordifolio, beautiful in its glacious foliago as well as in its great panicles of whito flowers, and the tall Silphiums, would each mako a distinct
feature. Tho tall, yet gracefully arching shoots of the Knotwecds would contrast welt with a ti-co of formal habit, All these plants arc easily raised from seed, and they soon assume large dimensions.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3305, 10 September 1889, Page 2
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407Noble-Leaved Hardy Plants. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3305, 10 September 1889, Page 2
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