Flower Names Quotes

But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.

Cerulean left. I wondered if she was from Flower Planet. Blue flowers were rare - one might take a name from that.

I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.

I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars.

'Motherwort.' 'Great Leopard's Bane.' These are awesome band names.

Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.

Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.