Lupine quotes by topic: Summer and lupines, Flowers and lupines, Soil and lupines, Colors and lupines, Gardening and lupines, Lupines features, Fodder and lupines, Nature and lupines, Food and lupines, Beauty and lupines, Wolves and lupines.
Summer and lupines
Blonde wheat field
accompanied by ripening
lupins: summer. (Stephan Dreyer)
I stumbled upon
a field of Lupines
and what a sight it was.
Proud spikes swaying
in the morning breeze
poking their colorful heads
above the wild grasses
and Oxeye Daisies,
delicate Fleebane
Queen Anne’s Lace,
Hawkweed and St. John’s Wort,
Large Bluets and Buttercups galore
all mixing in a meadowy display
showing off their beauty
in a Summertime… (Gregory Joseph Firlotte)
Wildflowers and lupines
The path wound around rough hills, here and there scattered with fig-trees and vines, with lupines, euphorbias, and other wild growths. (Richard Francis Burton)
The blue lupines around me
in wild abandon grow.
Loveliness so unearthly
must be Heaven’s over flow.
Sole food for the blue butterfly,
lupines survive the winds
and snows of mountain meadows,
until the winter ends. (Joyce Johnson)
Spring and lupines
Springtime has her way
on hilltops by the bay –
Cayucos ‘neath a flowering hill.
What more is there left to say
of lupines bright and gay –
of hilltop fields they fill. (Carol Louise Moon)
In the deep spring when the grass was green on fields and foothills, when the lupines and poppies made a splendid blue and gold earth, when the great trees awakened in yellow-green young leaves, then there was no more lovely place in the world. (John Steinbeck)
Flowers and lupines
Lupin’ is a wondrous little flower,
it smiles at life,
and doesn’t think about tomorrow and yesterday,
today the sun only gives it a shine. (Louise Hensel)
Roses are red, Violets are blue, Marigolds are orange, The yellow sun has a green thumb, The bells don’t ring, The lupins steal the rich soil, The irises shine in the eyes, Daisy, the scent of the jets ‘like. (Stéphen Moysan)
Soil and lupines
The lupines are excellent fertilizers, as the small nodules on the roots contain nitrogen-fixing bacteria… (Eula Whitehouse)
Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels. (Aldo Leopold)
Colors and lupines
Once a woman told me that colored flowers would seem more bright if you added a few white flowers to give the colors definition. Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is more blue than you can imagine. (John Steinbeck)
The drops of color from a glorious lupine
Splash the day with a wild note
Which happily clicks in the heart of the landscape
Like the high heel of a shoe. (francissicard)
Gardening and lupines
On black patches of land crowds of men were sowing lupines, beans, and barley. (Bolesław Prus)
…while the hollyhock,
The pink, and the carnation vie
With lupin and with lavender,
To decorate the fading year; (D.M. Moir)
Lupines features
There are so many varieties of Lupine that it is most difficult to identify the numerous species. (Leland F. Allen)
Perhaps the most publicized is the “Texas” lupine, or “bluebonnet,” hailed by Texans as their State flower. (Natt Noyes Dodge)
Fodder and lupines
Pliny said, “No kind of fodder is more wholesome and light of digestion than the white Lupine when eaten dry. (William Thomas Fernie)
Cattle and sheep relish the Yellow Lupine, but according to Mr. Kimber, pigs reject it. (Charles Alexander Cameron)
Nature and lupines
The blue lupines, the grass, the pines and the junipers there presented a scene that brought cries of delighted… (Josephine Chase)
Along the trail leading to the stream blue and white lupines grow in profusion, giving a delicate amethyst tinge to the landscape. (William E. Hutchinson)
Food and lupines
Lupines softened in water are still employed for making dough. (Johann Beckmann)
He has his vineyard, an oven to bake more than one loaf,
And in his kitchen garden lupine abounds.
This is little? Gallus desired no more. (José-Maria de Heredia)
Beauty and lupines
The Lupine, Lupinus, is a very handsome class of annuals, many of which grow well in India, all of them… (David Lester Richardson)
The Rose, and great blue Lupine , L. pilosus and hirsutus, are both good sized handsome flowers. (David Lester Richardson)
Wolves and lupines
In plant-lore “lupine” means wolfish, and is suggestive of the Evil One. (Edward Berdoe)
The Lupine was originally named from lupus , a wolf, because of its voracious nature. (William Thomas Fernie)
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