The Complete Garden

A landscape architect's working manual of 1921: not how to grow a plant but where to put it — the plant lists, the groupings, the seasons of bloom, and the reasons behind a designed garden.

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Perennials for Different Purposes: Aster-like

Achillea ptarmica flore pleno Double Tansy Aconitum wilsoni Wilson's Monkshood Althaea rosea Hollyhock Arundo donax Giant Reed Aster (in variety) Hardy Aster Astilbe grandis Large-flowered Astilbe Bocconia cordata Plume Poppy Boltonia asteroides Aster-like Boltonia Eupatorium (in variety) White Snakeroot Filipendula camtschatica Siberian Goat's Beard Helenium autumnale superbum Tall Sneezeweed Helianthus (in variety) Hardy Sun-flower Hibiscus moscheutos Swamp Mallow Liatris pycnostachya Blazing Star Lythrum salicaria roseum Pink Loose-strife Miscanthus (in variety) Plume Grass Physostegia virginiana False Dragon Head Polygonum sachalinense Knotweed Rudbeckia laciniata Golden Glow Rudbeckia maxima Cone-flower Solidago (in variety) Goldenrod Stenanthium robustum Mountain Feather Fleece F. PERENNIALS TO SUPPLY "PERPETUAL BLOOM." This group of perennials will prove helpful in providing continuous bloom throughout the season. Most of these plants are the well-known, thoroughly tested kinds which will grow in any average garden soil and will combine well in their colour effects and habits of growth. By a lover of flowers, who has acquired expert knowledge of flowers, many similar groupings can be formed.

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