orange-flowered

Chinese shrubs were planted in the ravines and today orange-flowered Kerria was sprouting new buds among emerging bluebell leaves, and buds were opening on a giant Rosa filipes from Yunnan, whose viciously spiny climbing stems had almost engulfed a small tree.

Country diary: Durham city 2011

At the American History Museum's Victory Garden, gardener Joe Brunetti has grown a variety named Vesuvius, a lovely mounding orange-flowered nasturtium.

Groundwork: Not-so-nasty nasturtium Adrian Higgins 2010

Dropping Sheila's postcard and Joe's letter in a basket that held wax fruit, Taylor flopped down on one of the orange-flowered sectional sofas.

Male Wanted Schuler, Betty Jo 2002

Ginnie ran the front desk, her gray hair in pink sponge curlers and her massive frame covered by a dark blue muumuu with an orange-flowered print.

The Third Victim Gardner, Lisa 1988

He wore a white suit and an orange-flowered shirt with the shirt lapels on the outside of his coat.

Neon Rain James Lee Burke 1987

Here at the top of the cliff, the orange-flowered milkweed still flames in beauty, mingled with the pink and lavender bergamot and the varied yellows of the sunflowers and the rosin weeds.

Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

Closer to the fence are lemon-yellow coreopsis with quaint, three-cleft leaves; thimble weeds with fruit columns half a finger's length; orange-flowered milkweed, like the color of an oriole's back, made doubly gay by brilliant butterflies and beetles.

Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

We next travelled over a fine hard plain covered very generally with small bushes of a beautiful orange-flowered, spreading under-shrub, with broad thin-winged fruit; * but the Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale grew almost everywhere and seemed to take the place of grass.

Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Thomas Mitchell 1823

Of this plant, as of all others which have long been objects of culture, there are many varieties; those most generally cultivated in our gardens are the common orange-flowered single and double, yellow single and double, gold-striped leaved, and silver-striped leaved; the Dutch in their catalogues enumerate thirteen varieties.

The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772

We had drinks on the spectacular terrace, looking over dazzling vegetation not for nothing is the national red- and orange-flowered tree of Nevis called the Flamboyant to the sea, the uninhabited island of Redonda, and the outline of Montserrat beyond.

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