Re: CULT: Iris companion plants

In a message dated 12/30/04 7:53:49 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
donald@eastland.net writes:

<< I experiment all the time, of course >>

And so did Gertrude Jekyll, known familiarly to some of her contemporaries as 
Aunt Bumps, who was arguably the most influential garden designer in the 
Anglo-American world in the first quarter of the XXth century. 

Miss Jekyll had very finely honed ideas about color in gardens and provided a 
plan for an ideal Iris and Lupine border in her book *Colour Schemes for the 
Flower Garden*. Among the companions to the Irises and Lupines-- which are 
mostly white and yellow tree Lupines in this border--are Catmint, which I presume 
to be Nepeta; London Pride, which is a form of saxifrage; hardy geraniums; 
various pinks; Cerastium; thrift; china roses; Violas; Heuchera; Acanthus; and, 
interestingly enough, Dictamnus, which is one of those perennials which live 
forever and abominate being disturbed.  

Cordially,

Anner Whitehead
Richmond VA USA
USDA Zone 7

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