The Archive · 1939

Growing a Miniature Cottage Garden

A miniature border of turf and Aowers, in the English style can be grown indoors as easily as a Japanese arden. Choose a shallow earthen: ware bowl or a deep tray, which can be painted or enamelled 16 harmonize with the room. But colour only. the outside, not the inside, where paint may be injurious to the plants The illustration given shows a most excellent sense of design. Others of the cut-ouls are of the most amazing delicacy. Trees "and little plants, birds "and earls were Mistress Dorothy. Gisborne's chosen motits—tone imagines her as a pretty a garden with nothing much to do, 'oF perhaps a young mother amusing her' children." Someone looking at her work said that his" family possessed a collection of the same kind of work, done by an ancestor imprisoned in' the Tower of London. But that gentleman hod bent iis Nearly fil your tray or bow! with Joam and good fine soit over a drain-aye subsoil. Work out a design as you would for a full-size border, that tall flowers do not stand In front of shorter ones and colours contrast in a definite scheme, What flowers you use will naturally depend on those available, but the general aim should be about the size and type of dwarf polyanthus and cultivated daisies. Rock plants are also very suitable.

Pot the centrepicee you have chosen in a very small flowerpot before. you plant it, so that the roots do not spread. "Then group the other flowers around: it according to plan. A. "gar den path" winding round and through mind and fingers to the execution of the bed can be made with strips of Btelike "copies "of spiders webs t#f shaved with scissors to give it ither because there were so many soft and velvety look, and landscape models under his eye, or because gardening effects can be carried out they typified is own dismal case. with stones and moss,

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