Hints and tips:
...A translator renders them as squills. They are not the blue-flowered little scilla-squills whose flowers are opening in British gardens....
...Last year was my first year of growing a fine blue squill, Scilla bifolia....
...Along the path we pass artemisia, sea squill, olive trees and cacti with prickly pears....
...Come summer, the smeary, fragile turf will dry off, starred with thrift and spring squill. The air will be angry with arctic terns. Today I share the banks with squadrons of lean geese and swans....
...The final stretch (by now the lizards are scuttling companionably) gave me blackberries to graze on; the feathery sea squills pushing out of the boulder-strewn earth showed that autumn was beckoning....
International Edition