What is the meaning of "the green and blue of the crops"?
I'm reading the My mother never worked essay by Bonnie Smith-Yackel.
In the other fields, when the oats and flax began to head out, the green and blue of the crops were hidden by the bright yellow of wild mustard.
What does this sentence mean?
Solution 1:
Many crops (including oats) are green. Flax has blue flowers.
Wild mustard has yellow flowers.
[Nowadays, in England, more and more fields are a virulent yellow, but that's not what you were asking about.]