Evening star., 1926-04-10
Landscape Planning
For the Home Owner
BY ROSE GREELY,
Landscape Architect.

II is particularly appropriate at this
line of the year to discuss the low
pdeing plants that belong in the front
# the flower border, because most of
hem bloom in the Spring. Forget
lne-nots and pansieS, violets and ara
h.S come with the tulips and make
POSSIBLE delightful color combinations.
is possible, therefore, to save the
&reater part of the border for late
@pring, Summer and FAN bloom, and
20 get early Spring effects simply with
he narrow ribbon of bloom at the
front of the border, assisted by quanti-
ties Of Spring bulbs scattered through
The whole area, where they will be a
delight in the Spring and will have
disappeared before the Summer
covers bes.n 10 grow. But before
considering the possibilities in com
bining bulbs with edging plants, one
nust go over the field OF edging
rlants.
Arabs albida, one Of the first to
bloom, is not over S inches high. Its
pcofuse masses Of starlike white bios
, oms fairly cover the plant in the
Spring, and perhaps appear more in
tensely white because the foliage is
a good clear green in color. Even
more desirable than the single form
is the double towering arabs tarabiS
"ldiba foraplcnal with flowers re-
Sembling; though on a smaller scale,
he individual tioWerlets of the double
white stock Unlike the stock, how
ever. the flowers Of the arabs are
close to the plant, its compact, low
growth of both plant and flower max
ug il particularly suitable for the
front OF the bed. II thriVeS in the
shade and is equally at home in the
sunny border.
Every garden must have furget-me-
nots. The Spring fUrGet-me-not (Myo-
sotis alpeStriS) which grows in clumpS,
is prettier both in flower and in habit
of growth than Myosotis palustris,
which does not form clumps but
sprswls along the ground. But the
latter is valuable because ii has
scattering OF bloom all Summer. carry
ing ON the fOrget-me-n0t season. SO
it is we'll to use both. Once estab-
ished, they VIII seed themselves
everywhere in the garden, furnishing
all the plants that the garden will
need and seedlings TO give away
Deeper blue than the forget-me not,
the Veronicas veronica rupeStriS and
veronica repenSl. both of almost pros
trate growth are valuable in the Spring
garden color scheme because their
intense deep color is darker in tone
than that of most Spring flowers.
They are particularly striking if used
with the white flowers which are so
prevalent among ed@ing plants.
Among the most desirable OF the white
blossoms are those Of the iberis family,
of which iberis sempervirens is a typi-
cal example. It's lasting deep green,
fine foliage and clusters Of small white
flowers are always attractive. Snow
in-Summer tcerastium tomentoSuml is
less refined than iberiS, but is bolder
and more effective. both in the Spring
when it is literally covered with white
blossoms and in the Summer when its
light grey-green foliage makes a Strik-
ing contrast with the greens around it.
The PROSTATE phloX tphIoE subulata)
often called moss pink, IS too we'll
known to need a description. Although
il is usually grown in the original ma
ienta-pink color it can be bought in
named varieties OF various good colors,
including some excellent laVenderS.
Moss pink is a miSnomer for the true
pinks, of which the carnation is one,
are of quite a different family.
Among the pinks are TO be found
some of the best border plants. The
old-fashioned garden pink (dianthuS
plumariusl, used alone, makes de-
lightful edging. It's dense grasslike
foliage, distinctly gray-green in color.
forms solid clumpS which, IL
planted alone, make a low hedge
like edging Ii is equally good
in combination with other edging
plants where the color Of its foliage is
always effective. There are many
varieties Of dianthus plumarius, rang
ing from the type with parti-colored
pink flowers through the various pinks
and whites. Most of them are good.
The old-fashioned sweet William (di-
anthus barbartusl. a member of the
same family. has also been developed
in various colors. II is much better