Hillside Gardening Plants for a depository financial institution or the Benny Hill side .
The simplest way to plant a banking company is to make a grassy incline of it . This is n’t the best agency in which a bank can be treat , since it miss interest and will be more hard to pout than a level lawn .
If the savings bank is fairly all-encompassing an splendid agency to cover the soil is to plant some of the many fine climbing and rambler roses . The long shoot are secured to impregnable wooden pegleg and pace across the ground in a serial publication of gloomy arches . It is surprising how this treatment causes the whole plant life to flower most generously .
A discourse suited to a sunny aspect is to plant the bank with a potpourri of low growing flowering shrubs to produce a form of ` maquis ’ . Suitable shrub for this purpose would include : John Rock roses such asCistus cypriusandC.laurifolius , the prostrate cotoneaster , lavenders , Genista , halimiums , helianthemums , Hypericum , Phlomis fruticosa , rosemary , the red - go away sage(Salvia officinalis rubrifolia ) , Berberis thunbergii atropurpurea , genus Ruta , several artemisia and Santolina , and the Scotch brier roses , which are , unlike most rose , completely trouble costless . The Scotch brierpatch have been develop from the aboriginal burnet roseRosa spinosissima . They have a middling range of colour and they increase slowly and steady by suckering . Even in wintertime their close sheaf of offshoot make an effective greenback of affectionate brown color . The chief disadvantage of these briers is that they are more or less uncommon now . The hunt for these treasured shrubs is itself an escapade , but several specialist go up growers propose a pocket-sized choice .
If there is a path which dips between banks , the feature is , in essence a ‘ dingle ’ and here , if the soil permits it , there is a brilliant opportunity to embed rhododendrons in a way which seems to set them off to the great advantage .
On the same banks of vitriolic soil as the rhododendrons revel the dingle might more modestly be a heather dell , and this could give color the whole yr through , for even in the coldest winter conditions there are masses of lustrous heather blossoms cheerfully glow . And soil is less important where the winter - flowering heathland are concerned , forErica carneaand its numerous cultivar , which flower from November to April , will succeed on chalky soils .
It is potential , also , to make rough terrace and these may be constitute up with the more amenable rock’n’roll plants . In fact this intervention reaches a leg when it might well be regarded merely as a rock candy garden ( see Rock gardening , Rock garden flora ) .
Terracing the bank in this fashion can give it a jolly alien looking if the top of the bank has one or two of the large noble - looking but absolutely hardy yucca placed so that they can be assure against the sky . When they bloom the essence is superb . EitherYucca gloriosaorY. recurvawill give this effect , and the much smaller Y.flaccidawill give an annual show of its white lily blooms . A list of plant suited to the terrace bank would include : wallflower , snapdragon , thrift , rock pinks , iberis , aubrieta , madwort , arabis , Campanula garganica , C.portenschlagiana , the mossy saxifrages , dianthus , Genista lydia , Phlox subulata , and many others .
As can be well meet from a railway bearing window , many flower flora are capable of taking care of even the most difficult conditions supply by the extortionate bank of raw earth which often border the permanent agency . Here may be seenHypericum calycinum , the rose of sharon ; the periwinkles , Vinca minorandVincamajor;and in particular on tender chalk , the red valerian , Centranthus ruber ; with an occasional taller notation provided by that easy exit shrub the bladder senna , Colutea arborescens .
