By the end of August one should be able to go round the garden and note plants which need moving to places where their colour or stance will Except in very cold northern gardens they are thoroughlv at home, making ever-greater clumps of their graceful, broad grassy foliage, particularly valuable in early spring when their bright green lights up the garden in a way that few plants do. We have already looked at the best early species, H. flava; this is closely followed by the soft terra cotta of tall H. fulva, and later by the ancient 'Kwanso Flore Pleno' with double, long-lasting flowers. The fact that the flowers of the singles last only for a day is no great disadvantage for there is a long succession from every stem. Many hybrids have been raised and I think there is no doubt that the lemon-yellows such as 'Dorothy McDade' and 'Marion Vaughn' are the most telling in the garden landscape. There are two splendid rich mahogany-reds, 'Alan' and 'Stafford', and a whole range of pale orange, orange-red, buff, peach and delicate two-toned flowers to choose from. On the whole, the flowers showing one colour only are the most effective although at close range the varied tints and markings of others are intriguing. SOFTER COLOURS For the softer colour scheme there is an equally large range to choose from. In the front could be placed a little white everlasting flower, Amphalis triplinervis, which has the additional asset of greyish foliage; the pink masterwort, Astrantia maxima; Calamintha nepetoides, a bee-loved plant with tiny blue flowers borne for many weeks; the strange grey-blue of Campanula 'Burghaltii' (which if cut over after flowering will present another crop of flowers in September), and a sweet sultan in pink Centaurea hypoleuca 'John Coutts' and the much larger, imposing C. 'Pulchra Major'; the foliage of both is glaucous-white beneath. The daisy-flowered erigerons are available in a whole range from near white to darkest purple; Scabiosa caucasica, Stokesia cyanea and Platycodon grandiflorus 'Mariesii' all in lavender-blue or white; and as a contrast there are the flat pink heads of Sedum spectabile, chosen by tortoiseshell butterflies for their nectar without due regard to the clash of colours! And, of course, one must not forget Stachys byzantina (S. lanata), or lambs' ears, in one of its forms, in front, with the silvery foliage, also, of Veronica incana contrasted by its blue spikes. For plants of greater height in soft colours there is no lack. Blue is always sought for in gardens and we might start, therefore, with this colour, though true blue is not freely available; most verge towards lavender-blue. The summer-flowering monkshoods, Aconitum 'Newry Blue', 'Bressingham Spire' and 'Spark's Variety' form an impressive trio difficult to separate botanically, but providing from their spires of hooded flowers dark colours-purplish or navy blue-which are admirable to contrast with the pale tints. A.