Perennials for Perpetual Bloom
Juanita Beard · Iowa State University Digital Repository (Iowa State University) · 1924
What a joy to own such a garden where one may watch nature's pageant of color moving on and on-the first little Iris pumila bearing their flags of royal purple; the Oriental poppies, with their flaming torches, marching over the crest of the hill ; the larkspur with steel-blue spears gleaming beneath the noon-day sun and canterburybells with tinkling chimes.