ladyslipper

Updated: May 28, 2025

A desert, a dying place? Far from it, all about was swarming with life; two new men, four new hands to work, fields and meadows and homes. Oh, the little green tracts in a forest, a hut and water, children and cattle about. Corn waving on the moorlands where naught but horsetail grew before, bluebells nodding on the fells, and yellow sunlight blazing in the ladyslipper flowers outside a house.

Knut Hamsun - Growth of the Soil

For years and years she had planted flowers -tulips and hyacinths and poppies and lilies and gladiolus and larkspur and phlox and ladyslipper there had always been a riot of color. She had an old gardener, and she would stand over him, leaning on her silver-topped ebony cane, with a lace scarf covering her hair, and would point out the places to plant things.

Temple Bailey - The Tin Soldier