Here, amid vivid drifts of daffodils and hyacinths, tulips of every kind erupt in astonishing polychrome lavaflows of brilliant colour.

I never saw such a variety of architecture, of life, of picturesqueness, of brilliant colour, of light and shade.

I always peel broad beans as the outer skin detracts from their subtle, creamy flavour and it's a shame not to see their brilliant colour.

Set against the crispest blue sky, it was just a dual expanse of brilliant colour.

Young purple osiers, or purple willows, add brilliant colour to the edge of lakes.