Sentence examples for splendid flower from inspiring English sources

This is a real family enterprise, including son Frederik and daughter, Lynn, but Mrs. Vanhaecke reserves for herself the creation of the ubiquitous and splendid flower arrangements.

With names like Black Dragon Holds a Splendid Flower, Better Than Jade With Triple Magic and Tipsy Imperial Concubine, these ancient plants may galvanize jaded gardeners into yet another obsession.

Neither method takes away from the dignity of these splendid flowers.

Filled with potted plants and flowers to splendid effect, the patio is the perfect perch from which to gaze at the verdant (seemingly unpopulated) valley below.

"The shrubby Penstemon growing at these altitudes are wonderfully beautiful, such as P. bridgesii Gray, with its splendid scarlet flowers, golden within, and the stunning P. menziesii Hook.

In 1874 he catalogued it, and offered it for sale, as "New imported variety from Mexico, very large rich crimson flowers splendid fiery orange scarlet, equal to the beautiful color of the red poppy.

Other species of gooseberry and currant produce splendid shrubs with fragrant flowers and colourful fruits, and they are cultivated as garden ornamentals.

I then found the very interesting red-flowered Lonicera conjugialis Kellogg, a splendid unknown Jamesia with rose-red flowers, and attractive Symphoricarpos and Ribes species.

He likens it to a "French garden", with different types of flowers growing in splendid isolation.

"There was no more splendid fighting in '61, when the flower of Southern youth was in the field, than was displayed in those bloody days of September '63," wrote Hill.

It was covered with large, white, bell-shaped flowers and made a splendid display.