flower-colored

Updated: May 3, 2025

Here and there are natural meadows, and toward the salt water great marshes, the home of waterfowl. But all these are little or naught in the whole, faint adornments sewed upon a shaggy garment, green in summer, flame-hued in autumn, brown in winter, green and flower-colored in the spring.

Mary Johnston - Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings