canna lily

The lines are painted, the canna lilies watered.

"It could be nostalgia for adventure, or for sun and canna lilies all year round.

I did enjoy tuberous begonias, canna lilies and gladiolus while I had them, though.

Why water luxuriant canna lilies and fast-flowering, even faster-fading, roses, trained on ropes to make living swags around the croquet lawn?

According to Scott Allen from the group, the area was so consumed with two metre high canna lilies, it resembled a scene out of a science fiction story.

Today, the 0.15-acre plot is lined with banana, peach and loquat trees, sugar cane, angel's trumpets, canna lilies, birds of paradise, hibiscus and bougainvillea.

The Victorians were also partial to bold or exotic foliage, Mr. Davis said, like elephant's ear caladium, castor bean and canna lilies.

The farmhouse stands back from a blacktop, two-lane road, a two-story antebellum white clapboard house that rises on a plain field that is red with canna lilies.

It housed exotic plants like tobacco, canna lilies, mangold, bananas, artichokes and rhubarb and was praised by explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

As soil cools and our first frost arrives, cut back foliage and dig up tender bulbs that will not winter over well, such as dahlias and canna lilies.

Exotic gardening essentials, but mixing well with other plants, canna lilies come in every shade from cream through yellows and oranges to sizzling scarlet, often with equally colourful leaves.

It was exactly as I had hoped: tin-roofed bungalows with names like Waverley and Rosedene sitting in deep lawns fringed with scarlet canna lilies and pots of marigolds.

Canna lilies are dropping their blooms, and if I move quickly I can get the stalks of cinnamon-colored pods before they mature to brown and pop open to release their seeds.

Astrid Avenue was laid out there to honor Princess Astrid of Belgium's visit in 1928, the avenue is decorated with spectacular display of canna lilies of various colors.

On Perry Street some neighbors created a street garden, the sidewalk a colorful bounty of daisies, canna lilies, sunflowers and a glorious weed called detura, whose large white blossoms each last for only a day.

Beside the court a bed of yellow canna lilies, with leaves the colour of red cabbage, is being doused by another retainer, this man with a little ornament, beaded like the doily, in one of his ear lobes.

Isabel says here they are going "exotic, yes the Cornish thing, in orange and magenta, with marigolds and canna lilies with palms and cordylines for a bit of light-heartedness, and 'Pirates of Penzance" tropicana."

Try some Chinese ground orchids, blackberry lilies, canna lilies, elephant ears, lilies of the valley, crocosmias, hardy cyclamens, dahlias, summer hyacinths, gladioluses, day lilies, irises, or true lilies for a coordination of flowers through summer into fall.

Taking advantage of the Southern California climate, Mr. Morse created a sort of jungle lagoon in his own backyard, building a natural swimming pool with a thatch-roof palapa and a regeneration zone filled with tropical foliage like Madagascar palm and varieties of canna lilies.

In striking contrast are the smooth, sloping lawns along Queen Astrid Walk, studded with beds of canna lilies, crotons with leaves in brilliantly colored patterns, bougainvillea and a variety of flowering trees, among them amherstia nobilis, periodically covered with cascades of coral-colored blossoms.

We had our first whiff of the jasminelike scent of osmanthus, a native tree that was almost the only plant flowering at this season aside from canna lilies and masses of blazing Mao-red salvias that were set out in plastic pots all over China to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the People's Republic.

The garden, which the guests would see only for a moment when they walked the short distance from their cars to the front door or if they happened to glance out the window while it was still light enough, was polished and composed, birds of paradise and tightly wrapped canna lilies, banks of lamb's ear and emerald fern.