FLOWERS OF THE ARCTIC.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16735, 17 May 1922, Page 3

FLOWERS OF THE ARCTIC.

In the- brief** bright nightless summer the Arctic is a paradise of flowers. A great many of these plants have of late years become familiar to garden lovers because they are much used in rock gardens, and every flower lover knows their delicacy of structure, their brightness of colour, and their hardihood. But nothing can beat their original environment. These patches of yellow and blue and rose an 1 purple, cheek by jowl with great beds and batiks of snow or some stranded and long unmelted berg, look lovely, ft is the setting they were made for. Strangely enough, when brought south and coaxed to grow in our gardens, these Arctic and Alpine plants, los3 both a part of their great vitality and their lovely tint. They pine for the Arctic like the Eskimo does. Nansen tells of delicate bluebells nodding in the breeze, saxifrages with large blossoms, pale yellow mountain poppies, white cloudberry flowers, and blue forget-me-nots in countless millions in the neighbourhood of the North Pole.