Wood and Garden: Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur

by Gertrude Jekyll

CHAPTER IX

AUGUST[100]-111

Leycesteria — Early recollections — Bank of choice shrubs — Bank of Briar Roses — Hollyhocks — Lavender — Lilies — Bracken and Heaths — The Fern-walk — Late-blooming rock-plants — Autumn flowers — Tea Roses — Fruit of Rosa rugosa — Fungi — Chantarelle.