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Updated: June 7, 2025
Autumn late autumn was on all the reddening woods and in the cool sunshine; but there was a bright border of sunflowers and dahlias near, which no frost had yet touched, and the gaiety both of the flowers and of the clear blue distance forbade as yet any thought of winter.
Irais writes about once a week, and inquires after the garden and the babies, and announces her intention of coming back as soon as the numerous relations staying with her have left, "which they won't do," she wrote the other day, "until the first frosts nip them off, when they will disappear like belated dahlias double ones of course, for single dahlias are too charming to be compared to relations.
The whet administered, I was left alone for a little in the monastery garden. This is no more than the main court, laid out in sandy paths and beds of parti-coloured dahlias, and with a fountain and a black statue of the Virgin in the centre.
Then gazing down once more, she saw beneath the crystal water a bed of flowers; dahlias, ranunculuses, carnations, chrysanthemums, of every colour in the rainbow save blue. She gave a cry of pleasure: "What are they, Doctor? What do you call them?" "Sea anemones, in English, I believe," said the Doctor, "actinias, serpulas, and sabellas.
When delphiniums went out of season, we should rub them out and give you chrysanthemums; and if an untimely storm uprooted the chrysanthemums, in an hour or two we should have a wonderful show of dahlias to take their place. And we should still have the floor-space free for a sundial, or if you insist on exercise for the last hoop and the stick of a full-sized croquet-lawn. The Game of Kings
And now strange and inconceivable revulsion! I would rather you were ugly. What follies I committed after I came home! The yellow dahlias reminded me of your waistcoat, the white roses were my loving friends; I bowed to them with a look that belonged to you, like all that is of me.
Very well," he said resolutely "that is settled then. Now as to the kind. I have only a botanical knowledge of flowers shall we say something in asters, perhaps, chrysanthemums or dahlias? What is your advice as to that?" "Well, I advise roses." "Roses good. I had forgotten them for the moment. White roses?" A little shiver ran through her. "No, no! Let them be the reddest you can find."
The successive plantings of flowers keep the gardens in continuous bloom daffodils, tulips, pansies, begonias, dahlias, each in their turn. Festival Hall South Gardens and Mermaid Pool
The sitting-room was exactly like the bedroom, except that its stencilling was bright green and that it had no bed. There was in each room a big bunch of dahlias of gorgeous hues offerings from Madame Chalumeau. Yellow Dog Papillon, who had been left with Brigit to keep her company, lay on one of the rugs and snapped rudely at flies. It was very warm, and the tea had proved quite undrinkable.
The evenings now were soft and balmy after the rain: the air carried a pungent smell of dahlias and of oak-leaved geraniums to her nostrils, which helped her to throw off that miserable feeling of mental lassitude which had weighed her down ever since that fateful day at Dover.
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