Hortensias

XVI style, all white paint, with hortensias in blue enamel. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It was a succession of beautiful small gardens; there a fortress made of turf, its bastions crowned with hortensias; here ❋ Various (N/A)

These are well stocked with dahlias, roses, hortensias, begonias, cowslips, sweet williams, wall-flower, and other old-fashioned flowers, and the bloom-covered fuschias carried one's thoughts back to pleasant days spent in Devonshire dales. ❋ Thomas H. Reid (N/A)

The assemblage, with its neutral shades of civilian cloth and its sprinkling of bright military hues -- like geraniums and hortensias in the dark soil of a flowerbed -- oscillates, then passes, and moves off the opposite way it came. ❋ Henri Barbusse (1904)

Alas! there was nothing now but flats decorated in the Louis XVI style, all white paint, with hortensias in blue enamel. ❋ Marcel Proust (1896)

It was a succession of beautiful small gardens; there a fortress made of turf, its bastions crowned with hortensias; here a plot had been converted into a terrace, its walks ornamented with flowers, like the most carefully tended parterre; on a third was seen a statue of Pallas. ❋ Wairy, Louis Constant, 1778-1845 (1895)

A small garden two yards wide, surrounded by a low wall so that one could see the passers-by, separated the house from the road; there was a beautiful rose-laurel, extending its southern foliage above the evening bench, and there were yuccas, a palm tree, and enormous bunches of those hortensias which are giants here, in this land of shade, in this lukewarm climate, so often enveloped by clouds. ❋ Pierre Loti (1886)

They had strolled beyond the hortensias, into a shady avenue of elms. ❋ Henry Harland (1883)

She put up her sunshade, and they turned back into the alley of hortensias. ❋ Henry Harland (1883)

Why, I have seen myrtles, laurels, fuchsias, pomegranates, and hortensias forming hedges and growing on the windows and walls of many houses. ❋ Unknown (1859)

a cedar two hundred years old, weeping willows, a Norway spruce, and a beech which overtops them all; and there, in front of the main tower, some very singular shrubs, -- a yew trimmed in a way that recalls some long-decayed garden of old France, and magnolias with hortensias at their feet. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)

[Hortensia] That girl...[the first time] I met her I thought she was [a slut]. ❋ Hortensias Roomste (2010)