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: White

Anemone pennsylvanica Canadian Windflower Anemone sylvestris Snowdrop Windflower Aquilegia nivea grandiflora White Columbine :

Arabis albida Rock Cress PLATE XXXII. In the permanent planting no flowering tree or shrub deserves more favourable consideration than the fine type of Scheidecker's semi-double rcse-flowering crab illustrated above. (See page 251) the fine type of Scheidecker's semi-double rose-flowering crab illustrated above. (See page 251) PLATE XXXIII. As a specimen flowering plant for early spring effect, the Japanese weeping rose-flowered cherry is extremely interesting, covered, always before the leaves appear, with an abundance of rose-pink flowers. (See page 154, group XIX-A) c.

Perennials for Different Purposes: White — from The Complete Garden (1921)

Arabis alpina Alpine Rock Cress Armeria maritima alba White Sea Thrift Cerastium tomentosum Snow-in-summer Convallaria majalis Lily-of-the-valley Dianthus plumarius Scotch Pink Helleborus niger Christmas Rose Iberis sempervirens Evergreen Candytuft Paeonia officinalis alba Old-fashioned Peony Paeonia suffruticosa Tree Peony Phlox subulata alba White Ground Pink Sanguinaria canadensis Bloodroot Stellaria holostea Starwort Thalictrum aquilegifolium Meadow-rue Trillium grandiflorum Large-flowered Wake Robin Viola cornuta alba Horned Violet Perennials for spring-pink to crimson flowers:

Aquilegia canadensis American Columbine Aquilegia formosa hybrida California Hybrid Columbine Aquilegia hybrida Rose Queen Hybrid Pink Columbine Armeria maritima laucheana Lauch's Sea Thrift Bellis perennis English Daisy Dianthus deltoides Maiden Pink Dianthus plumarius Scotch Pink Dicentra spectabilis Bleeding Heart Geranium sanguineum Geum coccineum Avens Heuchera sanguinea Coral-bells Iris germanica Queen of May Pink German Iris Paeonia officinalis Old-fashioned Red Peony Paeonia suffruticosa Tree Peony Paeonia tenuifolia Fennel-leaved Peony Phlox stolonifera Creeping Phlox Phlox subulata Moss Pink Primula japonica Crane's Bill Saponaria ocymoides Rock Soapwort Japanese Primrose d. Perennials for spring-yellow to orange flowers:

PLATE XXXIII. As a specimen flowering plant for early spring effect, the
PLATE XXXIII. As a specimen flowering plant for early spring effect, the
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