While big, bright garden-party get-ups (and there were plenty of them on the spring runways) can come off a bit cloying, there is a certain coquettish charm to a skinny flower-pinned belt, as seen at Rochas, or fanciful budding sandals, like those at Yves Saint Laurent and Giuseppe Zanotti.
In it, Kirsten Dunst and Jason Schwartzman (Ms. Coppola's cousin) gallivant through dark bars and bright gardens, drink bottles of Coke and wear items from the spring-summer 2010 collection.
And the compositions of Miyazaki's scenes in a bright flower garden are sublime in their forthright, untarnished innocence.
"A sort of bright Indian garden!" "Bonjour!" he yelled, to a man in a beret and galoshes, carrying a weed whacker.
Or to move like a person of leisure, of dreamed-of leisure, from long curtained rooms to the bright thriving garden?
This June, I attended a wedding in a bright, steamy garden in New Orleans, in which a procession of small children entered to "Sun King," from "Abbey Road".
The first bright yellow garden rose was introduced in the early 1900s, as a result of hybridizing the cultivated variety Antoine Ducher with the Persian yellow rose (R. foetida, variety persiana).
Owned by a man who once worked for Royal Host, the Japanese equivalent of Denny's, Nakasu Dining specializes in perfectly executed versions of comfort food served inside an old wooden house overlooking a bright green garden.
Mr. Rickert's version is a colorful, bright, edible garden, a field of couscous across which he plants black olives, shards of feta, a bright green mound of basil ice cream and warm cherry tomatoes that dissolved into sweet pulp on my tongue like berries in a pie.
