Vita Sackville-Westさんのイラストまとめ

There seems to have existed once a rose known as the Velvet Rose. Nobody knows with any certainty what particular rose was meant by this name, but it is supposed that it must have been a Gallica. Nobody knows the place of its origin:

And both belonging to the same botanical family (Caprifoliaceae) which includes the more familiar Weigelias and honeysuckles; with small trumpet-shaped flowers dangling from graceful sprays.

It is true that Mrs Spry can avail herself of an armful of lilies and mix them with Humea elegans in a golden urn https://t.co/x9sVRWZ6PT

I like the habit of pot gardening. It reminds me of the South—Italy, Spain, Provence—
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Where is it best to plant them? The authorities seem to differ in their opinions. W R Dykes, who was the great authority on irises, says that Iris pumila ought to be divided and replanted every second year. He says they exhaust the soil. https://t.co/vO1DkHGWe5

Do not allow yourself to be fobbed off, as I foolishly was, by anyone telling you that Populus candicans is as good as Populus balsamifera. It isn’t. https://t.co/6WErw1U0Gk

Smells are as difficult to describe as colours, but I would describe this one as a sweet, strong resin, powerful enough to reach for yards around in the open air and almost too strong to put in a vase in your room. https://t.co/FfBr5te4B7

Clusiana is said to have traveled from the Mediterranean to England in 1636, which, as the first tulips had reached our shores about 1580, is an early date in tulip history.
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I suppose her alleged femininity is due to her elegance and neatness, with her little white shirt so jimply tucked inside her striped jacket; but she is really more like a slender boy, a slim little officer dressed in a parti-coloured uniform of the Renaissance.

[Some Flowers'37] Tulipa clusiana is familiarly called the Lady Tulip; but always reminds me more of little red and white soldiers. Seen growing wild on Mediterranean or Italian slopes you can imagine a Lilliputian army deployed on manoeuvres. https://t.co/Dqcd0zrQnd