gentian

There was the spot where the Indian pipes grew; the particular bit of marshy ground where the fringed gentians used to be largest and bluest; the rock maple where she found the oriole's nest; the hedge where the field mice lived; the moss-covered stump where the white toadstools were wont to spring up as if by magic; the hole at the root of the old pine where an ancient and honorable toad made his home; these were the landmarks of her childhood, and she looked at them as across an immeasurable distance.

For instance, it was the end of August at the level of the sea; in the Kandersteg valley at the base of the pass, we found flowers which would not be due at the sea-level for two or three weeks; higher up, we entered October, and gathered fringed gentians. I made no notes, and have forgotten the details, but the construction of the floral calendar was very entertaining while it lasted.

He had wandered by blue lakes and thought them; he had lain on mountain-sides with sheets of deep blue gentians blooming all about him and flower breaths filling all the air and he had thought them.

She did not understand why he stepped out from the window to the veranda and smiled under his mustache and winked so joyfully, when warm steady rain began to fall on the dry and thirsty shoots of the young oats, or why when the wind carried away a threatening cloud during the hay harvest he would return from the barn, flushed, sunburned, and perspiring, with a smell of wormwood and gentian in his hair and, gleefully rubbing his hands, would say: "Well, one more day and my grain and the peasants' will all be under cover."

To what amazing infusions of gentian, peppermint, gilliflower, sage, parsley, thyme, rue, rosemary, and dandelion, did his courageous stomach submit itself!

Rustic voices of a young man and woman below the olives --I went to the grape vineyard yesterday --And yet with a scarab beetle that sits on my hair --And with climbing gentians that get caught on my neck --I'm through with that --And on top of that you're going to say the grapes are sour --Though that is not the case --The season is still early, but there were already many insects stuck on them The man a yellow hat woven with straw, The woman a red pantalon, Above them the sun was spinning around slightly with flare.

Flowers on a wall A dry stone wall makes the perfect home for maidenhair ferns, alpines, creeping perennials such as aubrietia and both spring-flowering and autumn-flowering gentians. For instant impact now, fill the gaps between the top stones with soil and plant sheets of autumnflowering gentians.

'By doing this and then bringing ponies onto the land, we were able to encourage the growth of new grass and heather and provide a chance for the marsh gentians to get a foothold once again.'

"Lack of grazing at the site, and the growth of birch, rowan and non-native pine trees from the nearby plantation were all leading to the heathland's decline, dramatically reducing the numbers of marsh gentians," he added.

Some top plants for alpine-style containers include: Semper vivums or houseleeks, Draba aizoides, Saxifraga cotyledon, Rhodohypoxis baurii, miniature dianthus and oxalis, Phlox douglasii, gentians, Primula farinosa, small forms of Androsace and Thymus.

I recalled how often I stand amazed at the unparalleled ingenuity and imaginative beauty of flowers--morning glory, fuchsias, delphiniums, gentians; or the ten or more bird varieties that visit our town garden, from green woodpeckers to wrens; the exquisite colourings of the red admiral and peacock butterflies.

Plant new ones and carefully dig up and split those, like campanulas and gentians, that have spread too much.