under-shrubs

Updated: May 13, 2025

The wilderness of herbs and under-shrubs along the banks was no longer aflame with flowers. Dead thistles, whose feathered seeds had drifted far away upon the wind to found new colonies, and a multitude of withered spikes and racemes, told the old story of the summer's life passing into the death or sleep of winter. Yet the river-banks were not without flowers.

Edward Harrison Barker - Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine