Flowers and Flower Buds
- Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus, C. scolymus)
- Broccoli (Brassica oleracea)
- Caper (Capparis spinosa)
- Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea)
- Courgette flowers (Cucurbita spp.)
- Squash blossoms (Cucurbita spp.)
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Famous quotes containing the words flowers and, flowers, flower and/or buds:
“Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the lovliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“The pallor of girl’s brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,
And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
“The awful shadow of some unseen Power
Floats though unseen among us, visiting
This various world with as inconstant wing
As summer winds that creep from flower to flower;”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“It is Nature’s own bird which lives on buds and diet-drink.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)