Quote by Ellen Read Download Open image ““Urns with purple lobelia spilling over their edges were spaced along the veranda”” — Ellen Read ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“By now, at the end of a sloping alley, we had reached the shores of a vast marsh. Some unknown quality in the sparkling… — R. Murray Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“There was a vase of flame-coloured tulips in the hall - surely the most graceful of flowers. Some thrust their heads forward like snakes,… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“Delicate footprints circled around and around in a softly traced maze. I breathed in the scent of the deep crimson rose petals before me,… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
“The mist was almost gone. The magical shapes of the topiary had lost their charm and looked like the unkempt bushes and hedges they… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Light refracted off crystal platters piled with blooms the bright color of new blood, and flickering diyas cast smoke against the mirrors, leaving the… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“So I tom-peeped across the hedges of years, into wan little windows. And when, by means of pitifully ardent, naively lascivious caresses, she of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“For it was the one that I would have chosen above all others, convinced as I was, with a botanist’s satisfaction, that it was not possible to find gathered together rarer specimens than these young flowers that at this moment before my eyes were breaking the line of the sea with their slender heads, like a bower of Pennsylvania roses… — Marcel Proust Copy Share
“The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
“Even in its ragged state, the garden is astonishingly beautiful. The untended, untouched look of it--- and the ivy-covered walls that protect it on three sides--- only add to the air pf enchantment, of mystery, that rises from it like a shimmer of heat. It looks like something from a fairy tale, like it could have been torn from one… — Meg Donohue Copy Share
“three Paduan herbalists picking at the flower-sores, bleeding them and busily turning them crimson.” — Kent David Kelly Copy Share Image
“She gazed across the veranda to a formal garden beyond. An area of green lawn was set up with chairs and tables, while behind… — Ellen Read Copy Share Image
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“Lights spread a soft yellow glow over formal hedges with azaleas making a boarder in front” — Ellen Read Copy Share Image
“Rachael could see the lavender fields from where they sat at the kitchen table. They stretched in a purple haze over the landscape, the… — Ellen Read Copy Share Image
“How beautiful the house was with its magnolia trees lining the drive, their branches outstretched as if they were beckoning him inside. Rose tipped… — Ellen Read Copy Share Image
