Vita Sackville-Westさんのイラストまとめ

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

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:

For evidence of its antiquity we can trace a long enough pedigree through history, mythology, literature and art. Pomegranate has its name in Sanskrit; it appears in sculptures in Assyria and Egypt; it is mentioned in the Old Testament and in the Odyssey. https://t.co/kSIcFuktGK

I like the habit of pot gardening. It reminds me of the South—Italy, Spain, Provence—
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2 May [Some Flowers'37] Like the other members of its family, the stateliest of them all—Fritillaria imperialis, the Crown Imperial—has the habit of hanging its head so that you have to turn it up towards before you can see into it at all. https://t.co/p2wGuA4NGG

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

The only question is which rose are we to regard as the true York-and-Lancaster? For the one which most people hail cheerfully by that name in gardens, very often turns out to be not York-and-Lancaster at all, but Rosa Mundi.

[Some Flowers’37] The Wars of the Roses being fortunately now over, making one war the less for us to reckon with, we are left to the simple enjoyment of the flower which traditionally symbolizes that historic contest. https://t.co/L00BctvGXm

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] Rosa moyesii: This is a Chinese rose, and it looks it. If ever a plant reflected all that we had ever felt about the delicacy, lyricism, and design of a Chinese drawing, Rosa moyesii is that plant.