Sentence:  Other flowers we might gather as we pleased : myrtle and white violets from beneath the lilacs ; the lilacs themselves , that bloomed so prodigally but for the most part beyond our reach ; snowballs ; hollyhock blossoms that , turned <WSD>upside</WSD> down , make pink petticoated ladies ; and the little , dark blue larkspur that scattered its seed everywhere . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed