The Quiet Company Beneath the Sun — Edwards Gardens, September (Scholz) = BOOK Flowers

 

The Quiet Company Beneath the Sun — Edwards Gardens, September (Scholz)

In the gentle radiance of the afternoon sun, the garden presented itself as a small parliament of blossoms, each taking its place with the quiet dignity of characters in some rural chapter of life.

Foremost, and with no small measure of enthusiasm, stood the marigolds—stout fellows dressed in coats of flaming orange, their ruffled collars trembling ever so slightly in the breeze, as though eager to speak but waiting for a proper invitation.

Interspersed among them, like modest yet spirited companions, were the globe amaranths, each bearing a tiny, purple bonnet perched atop a slender stem. They appeared as the cheerful children of the assembly, their bright heads bobbing with innocent curiosity.

Behind these, forming a soft, chartreuse carpet, sprawled a bed of sedum—a most industrious groundcover, glowing with the steady, dependable light of one accustomed to keeping order beneath the more excitable flowers above.

Farther back still, in a wealth of pinks and magentas, bloomed the impatiens, whose gentle faces and well-mannered petals lent to the scene an air of polite society—ladies gathered in conversation beneath the afternoon shadows.

And standing upright at the garden’s rightmost edge, as if making a formal declaration, grew the violet spires of angelonia, each tiny blossom arranged with the precision of a clerk’s careful handwriting.

Thus the whole company, in colours bold and soft alike, composed a scene most pleasant to behold—an honest gathering of nature’s characters, meeting peaceably amid the stones

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