Excerpt: ... the work was done, the edge of the garden looked like Stonehenge, and the spot where my grass was to be was nothing but a yawning pit, crying to be filled. We surveyed it with interest. "If we had a water-supply, I wouldn't make a grass-plot," I said; "I'd make a swimming-pool. It's deep enough." "And sit in the middle with your book?" asked Jonathan. But there was no water-supply, so we filled it in with earth. Thirty wheelbarrow loads went in where those rocks came out. And the little gnomes perched on ...
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Excerpt: ... the work was done, the edge of the garden looked like Stonehenge, and the spot where my grass was to be was nothing but a yawning pit, crying to be filled. We surveyed it with interest. "If we had a water-supply, I wouldn't make a grass-plot," I said; "I'd make a swimming-pool. It's deep enough." "And sit in the middle with your book?" asked Jonathan. But there was no water-supply, so we filled it in with earth. Thirty wheelbarrow loads went in where those rocks came out. And the little gnomes perched on Stonehenge and jeered the while. I photographed it, and the rocks "took" well, but as regards the gnomes, the film was underexposed. Thus the grass seed was planted. And we reminded each other of the version of "America" once given, with unconscious inspiration, by a little friend of ours: - pg 109 " Land where our father died, Land where the pilgrims pried. " It seemed to us to suit the adventure. As I have said, I love to have my friends love my garden. But there is one thing about it that I find does not always appeal to them pleasantly, and that is its color-schemes. Yet this is not my doing. For in nothing do I feel more keenly the fact of my mere stewardship than in this matter of color-scheme. I set out with a very rigid one. I was quite decided in my own mind that what I wanted was white and salmon-pink and lavender. Asters, phlox, sweet peas, hollyhocks, all were to bend themselves to my rules. At first affairs went very well. White was easy. White phlox I had, and have-an inheritance-which from a few roots is spreading and spreading in waves of whiteness that grow more luxuriant every year. But I bought roots of salmon-pink and lavender, and then my troubles commenced. About the third season strange things began to happen. The pink phlox had the strength of ten. It spread amazingly; but it forgot all about my rules. It degenerated, some of it-reverted pg 110 toward that magenta shade that nature seems...
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