gladiola

The fireflies and somehow that makes their blinking like that amazing, and it's cheering and reassuring to know that that flower you thought was called a gladiola is in fact a gladiola.

Surely the sea is the most beautiful fact in our universe, but you won't find a fisherman who will say so... 2009

She kept gladiola in a tall vase on her desk: yellow and apricot, colors that buzz.

Dirty Business Susan Rukeyser 2011

Senate is, and we can light it on fire and build, perhaps, a field of gladiola on the ground where it once stood.

TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads 2010

When I see an azalea in Amityville, a sycamore in Syosset, or a gladiola in Great Neck, I am proud to think that I might have, in my small way, contributed to the beauty of America.

Plagued 2008

The Crocosmia are never dug for the winter and neither are the gladiola that were not supposed to be bulb hardy in this zone.

Winter Plant Portrait-Croscosmias « Fairegarden 2010

Senate is, and we can light it on fire and build, perhaps, a field of gladiola on the ground where it once stood.

TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads 2010

Everyone loves the smoked salmon, caviar and avocado appetizer, and the ladies can look forward to a romantic gift of a single gladiola stem as they exit the restaurant.

Eating Havana (and Drinking the Mojitos) 2007

French windows, save where the black shadows of stripling walls and the fantastic shadows of iron chairs slithered down into a gladiola bed.

Tender is the Night 2003

The parlor attendant moves the gladiola arrangements out of his way.

Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001

They mail-ordered forty thousand multicolored gladiola bulbs, rented two acres of Edson Tucker's soybean fields—the two acres closest to Uncle Jake's house—and had Edson disc under the stubble from last year's soybeans.

Change Me Into Zeus’s Daughter Barbara Robinette Moss 2001