Petunia quotes by topic: People and petunias, Women and petunias, Flowers and petunias, Petunias features, Gardening and petunias, House plants and petunias, Attitude to petunias, Phloxes and petunias, Scent and petunias, Flower garden and petunias, Dress and petunias, Bloom and petunias.
People and petunias
Petunias try to appear innocent, but the eye that regards them as the conclusion in decorative effect, has very far to come. Every man has the flower that fits him, and very often it is the badge of his place in human society. (Will Levington Comfort)
It was the hour when grief opens somewhere, like a petunia, for insomnia. (Leon-Paul Fargue)
Understanding is the basis of care. What you would take care of you must first understand, whether it be a petunia or a nation. (Dallas Willard)
Who could sleep in an open flower? I might sleep in a vast white petunia, because petunias do not have as much to say to me as do some other flowers. (Zona Gale)
The pot of petunias is for my dad But the big diamonds are for my mom. (Georges Milton)
Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. (Douglas Adams)
Women and petunias
My petunias, she tells me in a flat voice, are none of your business. (Louise Erdrich)
I sulked for a whole week about those petunias. What a little wretch I was, and how grieved you were! Forgive me that, Pp. (Rudyard Kipling)
Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that’s inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia. (Karen Marie Moning)
She was dressed in silky, red-brown linen. Under the wide, turnover collar of her white blouse was a loosely-knotted tie of purple. A purple toque pressed her autumn-tinted hair against her jet-black eyebrows. Her skin was like nacre, her lips like petunia petals. (Amelie Rives)
Flowers and petunias
If my readers will take the trouble to compare the Petunia and the Tobacco, they will be surprised to find how much the flowers are botanically alike. (Jane Loudon)
Fuschias, petunias, nasturtiums, and geraniums were abundant. (Lee L. Powers)
Honest old hollyhocks, delicate petunias, gorgeous marigolds, sweet mignonette, and such things as are intensely American, and countryish… (Lee L. Powers)
All the other old-fashioned flowers, the marigolds, petunias, larkspurs, poppies, and hyacinths, are sending up their jets of tremulous loveliness. (Peter McArthur)
Petunias features
Petunias, large as ladies’ bonnets, soft and purple, breathed of honey.(Lily Dougall)
A plant that can always be depended on. Very free bloomer, very profuse, and very showy. (Eben E. Rexford)
The Petunia is divided into three distinct classes, the Grandiflora, Small Flowered and Double. (M.D. Wellcome)
The white crimped petunias, which fade As soon as you want to touch them or breathe them, Seem, in their wet and diaphanous weakness, A failing bouquet of sweet butterflies. (Anna de Noailles)
Gardening and petunias
Fields of petunias, with soft petals like a woman’s batiste, showing the pink of the skin. (Émile Zola)
Hardness and smoothness are the requisites of a good walk. It is well to avoid self-sowing flowers like Sweet Alyssum, or Petunias, near the inside walks, as they come up by thousands in the spring and can only be removed by salting, scalding or uprooting. (Ida Dandridge Bennett)
Probably no common flower of the garden has been so improved during the last few years as the Petunia. The small-flowered variety of a few years ago with its straggly habit and narrow range of colour—chiefly white and faded magenta—is now superseded by magnificently fringed and ruffled beauties in a wealth of colour, from purest white to glowing crimson, and a velvety purple that is almost black, 84with wonderfully veined and tinted throats and thick, stocky stems. (Ida Dandridge Bennett)
House plants and petunias
The petunia is one of the most easily grown and generous bloomers of all house plants. (Frederick Frye Rockwell)
The petunia, as a window plant, blooms freely, and the white variety is fragrant—especially by night. (Sarah Warner Brooks)
Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa. (Andy Warhol)
Attitude to petunias
A particular favorite with us is the Petunia. If fine seed is secured, a bed of seedlings may be easily grown which will be splendid the whole summer long. (Henry Ward Beecher)
I do not care for the Petunia close at hand on account of its sickish odor. But in the dusky border the flowers shine like white stars, and make you almost forgive their poor colors in the daylight. I never liked the Calceolaria. (Alice Morse Earle)
Phloxes and petunias
Excepting the petunia, no plant will give the profusion of bloom with as little care as the annual Phlox. (Liberty Hyde Bailey)
These [Phloxes], with white Petunias, are almost unbearably cloying in their heavy odor. It is a curious fact that some of these night-scented flowers are positively offensive in the daytime; (Alice Morse Earle)
Scent and petunias
The smell of petunias, whose sticky chalices the sun had browned all day, emanated heavily from the planters and hovered in the warm air. (Roger Martin du Gard)
The sweet scent of the petunias was mingled with the stale and rather unwholesome smell of the canal sleeping darkly… (Romain Rolland)
Flower garden and petunias
The fragrant petunia and tobacco plants of the flower beds, the potato, tomato, and egg-plant in the kitchen garden… (Neltje Blanchan)
Petunias are excellent plants for large beds where a strong show of color is desired. They bloom early, continue through the season, and require very little care. (Eben E. Rexford)
Dress and petunias
[Petunias are] as hopelessly impractical as a chiffon ball dress. (Eleanor Perenyi)
A pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom… The dress looked like a petunia on steroids to me. (Laurell K. Hamilton)
Bloom and petunias
Revolutionary Petunias: Blooming Gloriously For its Self. (Gloria Steinem)
The finest specimens may be lifted for winter flowering. They will bloom freely in the house and often show a richer colour than when out of doors. (Ida Dandridge Bennett)
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