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Old gardens often had a special atmosphere, since there were only few flowers with striking colors (usually from annual plants), and useful plants were combined with the merely decorative ones. In many cases, those gardens were in an almost perfect balance between being well-kept and a tad neglected, since the amount of time spent in the gardens depended on how much time was left over for them. So, plants that used to spread by seeds in a controlled way, such as columbine, sweet william, or annual honesty, wandered through the garden and left little blurs of colors here and there, even between herbs and in the vegetable patches, thus producing charming pictures - like in the photo, where an old-fashioned columbine had sown itself among chives.

Description
Old gardens often had a special atmosphere, since there were only few flowers with striking colors (usually from annual plants), and useful plants were combined with the merely decorative ones. In many cases, those gardens were in an almost perfect balance between being well-kept and a tad neglected, since the amount of time spent in the gardens depended on how much time was left over for them. So, plants that used to spread by seeds in a controlled way, such as columbine, sweet william, or annual honesty, wandered through the garden and left little blurs of colors here and there, even between herbs and in the vegetable patches, thus producing charming pictures - like in the photo, where an old-fashioned columbine had sown itself among chives.