There was an intense pursuit of beauty in flowers and gardens, just as in our own age.

和我们现在一样，那个年代也有对花卉与园林之美的狂热追求。

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They brighten in parks and gardens as they fly among the flowers.

当它们在花丛中飞舞时，它们使公园和花园熠熠生辉。

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The large, rich peony flowers look great in the gardens and this is exactly why they are often seen as part of outdoors arrangements.

花园里，花朵大大的、富丽堂皇的牡丹花看上去美极了，这正是为什么它们经常被视为户外布景的一部分。

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One of Mr.Olmsted's first projects at Biltmore was to plant and grow the millions of flowers that would be used for the gardens there.

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The museum, working with Kew Botanical Gardens, shipped two refrigerated containers full of South African flowers, shrubs and trees for a six-month exhibit.

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"It's always thrilling to see the flowers that you were brought up with and that you have seen all tame and domesticated in European gardens and here they are en masse and more as you knew them."

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Yet unlike the vastly more common gardens designed for sun-loving plants daisies and irises and dahlias with their showy flowers shade gardens are a subtler thing.

WSJ: It's Better in the Shade

"We can do simple things like planting bee-friendly plants and flowers to encourage bees into our gardens, " he added.

BBC: Bee Part of It with BBC Surrey and keep bees buzzing

There can't be many self-sufficient drunks in the world, autarkic alcoholics who never once have to burden the off-license but who simply press whatever fruit, flowers or vegetables are growing in their gardens and transform the juices into alcohol.

BBC: CLOUD ATLAS, BY DAVID MITCHELL