Arabis

Such spring-flowering perennials as the white arabis, herbaceous candytufts, aubretias, primulas, and polyanthuses, should now be placed in situations where it is desired for them to flower. ❋ Various (N/A)

The arabis with its snowy blossoms is beautiful beneath the early tulips. ❋ Various (N/A)

The terraced gardens were full of spring flowers — wallflower and tulip, fruit blossom and early clematis, aubrietia, polyanthus, and arabis. ❋ Wentworth, Patricia (1950)

The coming of spring brings it – the first crocus pricking up, dawn a moment earlier day by day, the mist of green on honeysuckle hedges in February, the early arabis, spicily warm, with the bees 'hum about it. ❋ Unknown (1917)

Toadflax and arabis climb over the old garden walls: one little house looks as if its walls were held together by coils of wistaria. ❋ Eric Parker (1912)

Only one or two strayed sometimes to the early arabis, desultory and sad, driven home again by the frosty air to await the purple times of honey. ❋ Mary Gladys Meredith Webb (1904)

Nature in some twenty odd years had draped the cliff with fern -- the _Polypodium vulgare_ -- and Mrs Bosenna in her early married days had planted the crevices with arabis, alyssum, and aubrietia, which had taken root and spread, and now, overflowing their ledges, ran down in cascades of bloom -- white, yellow, and purple. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

So, too, spinach and lettuce may be covered with blight, while the bitter spurges, the woolly-leaved arabis, and the strong-scented thyme close by are utterly untouched. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)

Mountain dryas, yellow and white draba and arabis species, golden daisy, anemones, and white, rose and yellow heathers make thick carpets of green that cover most of the plateau. ❋ Unknown (2010)