Colour in the flower garden

by Gertrude Jekyll

THE SEPTEMBER GARDEN: LOWER END.

THE SEPTEMBER GARDEN: UPPER END.

BEGONIAS IN A SETTING OF MEGASEA FOLIAGE.

EARLY ASTERS AND PYRETHRUM ULIGINOSUM.

THE SEPTEMBER BORDER OF EARLY MICHAELMAS DAISIES.

The scheme of colouring consists of this groundwork of grey foliage, with white, lilac, purple and pale pink flowers; and, breaking into this colouring in two or three distinct places, flowers of pale yellow and yellowish white with suitable accompanying leafage. There is also, in quite another part of the garden, a later border of other Michaelmas Daisies that will follow this in time of blooming. But the September borders have a very different appearance because of their flowers of pink and yellow, colours which are absent in those of the later season.