And the small, pink-tinged flower, "sort of smells like burnt caramel".
Now he's back with large, splintering paintings of flowers sort of in vases — a big improvement.
ANTHURIUM (ANTHURIUM ANDRAEANUM) "Some people don't like anthuriums," Mr. Hoover said, "because the spadix, if it's a pink flower, looks sort of pornographic".
As Mr. Pelly did with costumes in "La Traviata," Bruce Donnell, in this "Figaro" production from 2008, made flowers a sort of keynote: markers of class, since they are grown and bestowed by underlings for the flattery and edification of aristocrats.
Apart from the tops made of all-white cutout flowers that sort of resembled shower daisies, and some hats that looked like inverted Easter baskets, this collection was nothing to sneeze at.
In just one plant order to England, he purchased 253 different species, including 52 types of flower seeds, 54 sorts of bulbs, 71 hardy herbaceous plants, 41 varieties of greenhouse plants and 35 kinds of vegetable seeds.
Dwarf conifers, daphnes -- a small fragrant shrub that bears flowers and berries -- and flowers of all sorts have vanished from the arboretum, Mr. Bieber said.
Yes, Billy is handy with his fists, and Martha and Flower intend to sort him out.
Prominently placed in the middle of the main room, it looks like an outsize disintegrating phonograph or a melting marzipan flower of some sort.
Have you ever eaten a candy flower of the sort used to decorate commercial cakes?
In Paris, going daily or weekly to the markets for fruits, vegetables, cheeses, breads, meat, flowers and all sorts of food is a ritual very cherished, as nothing beats the freshness of farmers' food.
