Hints and tips:
...“Weeping Willow and Water Lily Pond” and “Water Lilies, Willow Reflection” — ephemeral, drifting lilies, fat black willow trunks and downward coursing branches — are images of mourning and loss....
...Packets of bright-flowered starry sparaxis are excellent value at about £10 a time; pink-flowered nerines, the Guernsey lilies, are essential bulbs, too, for our milder Octobers....
...The voluptuous saturated hues of Rothko’s square and oblong blurs in “Untitled Red, Orange” echo the building’s rich porphyry columns....
...A “Rouen Cathedral”, morning view, misty with pink undertones and silvery highlights, is here, and Monet’s “Field of Tulips”, landscape dissolving into a vast red sweep....
...me, experienced birders seemed to have an amazing capacity to find their quarry), I could, watching the puffleg’s perpetual mania as it flitted between the flowers of the bomarea multiflora, or trailing lily...
...The Turrell Skyspace down the corridor invites you to sit still and watch clouds racing across a blue sky above you till you think you’re seeing lilies again, in Monet’s blue pond....
...This comforting story, axiomatic of modernism as progress, includes Turner’s dissolving forms, Monet’s water lilies, Matisse’s cut-outs and Picasso’s cartoonish disfigurations....
...I will treasure the sight of pink nerines among red and white-flowered Salvia Hot Lips, below the climbing white potato vine, Solanum jasminoides album....
...I still occasionally pick out a book from the shelves and marvel at Jencks’s mad marginalia, the red scribblings and underlinings....
...Between my peonies in a new bed I have sunk pots of martagon lilies to pick up the baton when the peonies’ flowers fade. They are now coinciding....
...In 1969 Lichtenstein did the haystacks, using yellow for them in midday light and, separately, red for a print of them at evening. In 1992 he did the water lilies with clouds and again with willows....
...Dessert, a cheese board with fresh sourdough and local honey and a bright red poached rhubarb strawberry something, was devoured as the sun set....
...There were also lilies received from village neighbours. Wild daffodils were planted too, like those he immortalised after seeing them in 1802 on a walk with Dorothy, not “lonely as a cloud”....
...Their artwork for Córdoba was held together by a perforated type of bendy rose-red aluminium, specially designed for the job, and their flowers were superbly chosen and combined, ranging from gloriosa lily...
...More recently, he created a “Sky Ladder” that sent fiery rungs climbing half a kilometre into the clouds....
...In the late afternoon sun, amid clouds of butterflies, they brought the ruins to life....
...The sky looms like a massive dome, clouds painted luminously on its invisible ceiling....
...As ever, the images are pretty, with clouds scudding and heavenly bodies twinkling like a big-budget computer screensaver....
...There is only one cloud on the horizon. Alliums are all grown to make big bulbs in rich Dutch soil and then imported into Britain....
...on Red”, the inward-moving eddies of “Pool in the Woods, Lake George” — is really not to see them at all....
...vibrant “avant-gardeners” responding in their own way to war: Matisse’s harsh, distorted “The Rose Marble Table” (1917) from MoMA, Klee’s “Picture of a Garden in Dark Colours” (1923), Emil Nolde’s blood-red...
...No such feed is necessary for October’s star turns at a lower height, the various Kaffir Lilies, or Schizostylis....
...Lutetia is said to attract clouds of butterflies to its open single flowers, but often they prefer to decamp somewhere else. This year not a single Red Admiral has come to call....
...And Monet, the lily pads, going beyond the visible, creating a series of constraints. Monet’s lilies and Andre’s bricks should be in a show together.”...
...Then clouds muffled the sun and the flower stopped in its tracks....
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