I kept to my course, gazing at everything along the way, from the recently opened pink and rose hollyhocks in front of our neighbor's peeling white shed, to the yellow Hyperion day lilies just beginning to open behind the currant bushes, to all the summery colors and shapes on display in Kate's perennial border, now at the climax of its third bloom phase. The tall fuchsia spikes of the lythrum, the sky blue of the stirrup-flowered delphiniums, the navy blue of the salvia spikes, the violet blue of the veronica spikes, the orange and pink and white of the tiger lilies, the yellow of the yarrow, the white of the small-petaled feverfew. So many colors and shapes so carefully arrayed from back to front, from one end to the other, I was momentarily transfixed by the spectacle.
Carl H. Klaus, My Vegetable Love: A Journal of the Growing Season
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