How To Use Columbine In A Sentence
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These columbines have bell-shaped flowers, spurred petals, and self-coloured tepals.
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My favorite imitator, the Hinckley columbine, is like a butter-yellow, otherworldly bird.
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The upper bed is mostly for perennials, including red-and-white columbines, purple blue campanulas, and tall blue delphiniums fronted by yellow and orange Iceland poppies.
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Columbine, aquilegia ‘Magpie’ resembles an elaborate bonnet to be worn on special occasions for the more fashion forward among the fae.
Fairies Part One « Fairegarden
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She also uses some uncommon remedies such as geranium for colds and columbine for scrofula.
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Next, to create a casual country look, she interspersed three large fieldstones in the bed, then planted flowering perennials such as astilbe, columbine, delphinium, and hellebore among them.
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The upper bed is mostly for perennials, including red-and-white columbines, purple blue campanulas, and tall blue delphiniums fronted by yellow and orange Iceland poppies.
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Two or three years 'growth will raise these plants above all grass and low vegetation, and a sprinkling of laurel, rhododendron, hardy ferns and a few intermingling colonies of native wild flowers such as bloodroot, false Solomon's seal and columbines for the East, as
Studies of Trees
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The color scheme runs along the high ridges from blue to rosy purple, carmine and coral red; along the water borders it is chiefly white and yellow where the mimulus makes a vivid note, running into red when the two schemes meet and mix about the borders of the meadows, at the upper limit of the columbine.
The Land of Little Rain
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Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
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‘Wish you could see my yellow columbines,’ the daughter says.
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As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
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Among other plants which may cause serious mischief, but are seldom suspected, are such harmless-looking flowers as the meadowsweet, herb-paris, the common fool's-parsley, found growing in quantities in the gardens of unlet houses and neglected ground which has been in cultivation, mezereon, columbine, and laburnum.
The Naturalist on the Thames
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Well how about ‘columbine’, ‘pavonine’ or ‘pteropine’?
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Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
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Columbine and nicotiana sprouted everywhere, as did a colony of small buddleia.
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Next, to create a casual country look, she interspersed three large fieldstones in the bed, then planted flowering perennials such as astilbe, columbine, delphinium, and hellebore among them.
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Bowling for Columbine was already a success before it won the Oscar for best documentary, but the award - and Moore's controversial acceptance speech - gave the film an extra bounce.
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The columbine, aquilegia ‘Magpie’, grown from free seeds included in a Thompson and Morgan order several years ago, is now opening, and was glad to get a shower to wash off the yellow pine pollen from its petals.
Blessed Rain « Fairegarden
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Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
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Shown above is wild columbine, Aquilegia canadensisBut the woodland plants had already been planted in what we refer to as the wildflower corner.
The Sunny Woodland-GBDW* « Fairegarden
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We have columbines red, blue, and yellow, as we have tropaeolums, leschenaultias, and primulas.
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The mild days and chilly nights extend bloom of summer perennials like columbines and Shasta daisies.
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Farther back, there's furtive jack-in-the-pulpit and mayapple, and along our driveway, wild columbine's whiskered pendants.
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I love columbine and foxglove is one of my favourite wild flowers.
Botanical Gardens, Experimental Farm, Ottawa « Mudpuddle
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One may see astilbe, columbine, hosta, ferns, begonias and impatiens, along with the less common, yet colorful, annuals foxglove, torenia, Viola cornuta, mimulus and Geranium endressii.
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How about ‘Columbine,’ the story of how two young teens in love are one day forced to battle evil black coated fiends with only their wits and paper clips.
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Mar. “Not money, it is flowers, buttercups, yellow columbine, liverleaf, devil's ears, and such as I never saw before.”
Margaret
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Other gardeners prefer to interplant them with spring flowers such as columbines, daisies, dianthus, Iceland poppies, lupines, and peonies.
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The Columbine students had an armoury including a sawn-off shotgun.
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The mound, from base to crown, was cloaked in flowers; in monkshood, columbine, goldenrod, blazingstar and others.
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Most columbine flowers have backward-projecting spurs that contain rich nectar that can only be reached by hummingbirds.
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Seeds of most hardy perennials, including butterfly weed, columbine, liatris, and penstemon, require a period of chilling to germinate.
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The textured foliage blends well with the bold leaves of hostas and is great in combination with other early-season flowers, such as bleeding heart, foamflower and columbine.
Memphis Commercial Appeal Stories
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Other gardeners prefer to interplant them with spring flowers such as columbines, daisies, dianthus, Iceland poppies, lupines, and peonies.
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Seeds of most hardy perennials - including bleeding heart, butterfly weed, columbine, delphinium, liatris, and penstemon - require a period of chilling to germinate.
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Seeds of most hardy perennials - including bleeding heart, butterfly weed, columbine, delphinium, liatris, and penstemon - require a period of chilling to germinate.
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Other gardeners prefer to interplant them with spring flowers such as columbines, daisies, dianthus, Iceland poppies, lupines, and peonies.
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Columbine , aquilegia ‘Magpie’, another seed grown success that has shown itself to be true to seed , the babies have the dark hood and white center so charming in the shade garden.
Color in the Garden-GBDW Part Four « Fairegarden
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Our young piony at the foot of the fir-tree has just blown and looks very handsome, and the whole of the shrubbery border will soon be very gay with pinks and sweet-williams, in addition to the columbines already in bloom.
Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra and Others
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In an effort not to have a repeat of the awkwardness caused by director Michael Moore when he accepted the awrd for outstanding documentary in 2003 for "Bowling for Columbine," in recent years the Academy has "gerrymandered" eligibility rules in the documentary category, critics say.
Parody: Penguin Protests Bush "Invasion of Privacy" at Oscars
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Just to keep in the wine colored theme, this columbine, aquilegia ‘Barlow Black’ has started its bloom period.
Tree Peony Hatsugarasu « Fairegarden
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Flowers sprawl over the ground: red columbine, pink shooting stars, magenta pentstemon, purple aster, pink monkey flower and orange tiger lilies.
Into the Wilderness
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Some may be surprised at this choice, but I find that the novel captured youthful angst as well as any book I've read, and its explosive denouement is all the more impressive in these post-Columbine days.
MIND MELD: Speculative Fiction Books Worth Reading Twice
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Plants like hosta, fern, sweet woodruff and columbine feel more at easy in the shadow.
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Other gardeners prefer to interplant them with spring flowers such as columbines, daisies, dianthus, Iceland poppies, lupines, and peonies.
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Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
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(AP) - Survivors looking back on the Columbine school massacre include Patrick Ireland, known as the bloodied "boy in the window" who tumbled into the arms of rescuers.
WCAX - Local News
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The Columbine killings of 1999 failed to provoke any shift in Americans'attitudes to guns.
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Fahrenheit 9 / 11's hodgepodge of unsustained narratives leaves it, like Bowling for Columbine, a great discussion starter, but not really a great movie.
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All columbine flowers have backward-projecting spurs that contain rich nectar.
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However, in a high-elevation species of columbine, enhanced UV-B radiation appeared to destroy alkaloids.
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Next, to create a casual country look, she interspersed three large stones in the bed, then planted flowering perennials such as astilbe, columbine, delphinium, and hellebore among them.
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The Columbine is pleasing to the eye, as well in respect of the seemly (and not vulgar) shape as in regard of the azury colour thereof, and is holden to be very medicinable for the dissolving of imposthumations or swellings in the throat.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
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Columbine was emblematical of forsaken lovers.] [Footnote IV. 27: _There's rue for you; and here's some for me: -- we may call it herb of grace o 'Sundays: _] Probably a quibble is meant here, as _rue_ anciently signified the same as
Hamlet
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Pepper the arrangement with delicate elements such at dainty columbine flowers, oregano sprigs and wispy astilbe.
Doing the Flowers
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As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
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Other gardeners prefer to interplant them with spring flowers such as columbines, daisies, dianthus, Iceland poppies, lupines, and peonies.
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A white-faced Pierrot, arm-in-arm with a scarlet Columbine, came towards them.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Among other plants which may cause serious mischief, but are seldom suspected, are such harmless-looking flowers as the meadowsweet, herb-paris, the common fool's-parsley, found growing in quantities in the gardens of unlet houses and neglected ground which has been in cultivation, mezereon, columbine, and laburnum.
The Naturalist on the Thames
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In the surrounding beds, hollyhocks soar and golden columbines provide bright splashes.
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Seeds of most hardy perennials, including bleeding hearts, columbines, phlox, and primulas, require a period of chilling to germinate.
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'Here's the liverleaf, and anemone, and bloodroot; and we couldn't find the columbine, but it must be out.
A Red Wallflower
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As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
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Moore's Oscar-winning Bowling for Columbine hopscotched across explanations for the American habit of violence without investigating any one of them in meaningful depth.
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(AP) - Survivors looking back on the Columbine school massacre include Patrick Ireland, known as the bloodied
Undefined
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The seeds of this columbine are sought after by small birds, such as song sparrows, juncos, and many others.
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Among the wildflowers are a red columbine, aster, figwort, wild sarsaparilla, fleabane, and avens.
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The pair of early crows were lovely, Frances and the barlow columbine is pretty cool, too.
Tree Peony Hatsugarasu « Fairegarden
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But I do not dig graves, only cradles, for wolfsbane and moonflower, evening primrose and columbine.
Wolves and Butterflies
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If, on the other hand, the carpels be few in number, and placed in a verticillate manner, the axis then generally passes upwards without any change in the form or position of the carpels being apparent, as in a proliferous columbine, figured in the 'Linnean Transactions,' vol. xxiii, tab. 34, fig. 5.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Meanwhile, the conservatory re-created Dickinson's universe of roses, daisies, daylilies, columbine and hollyhocks.
Evolution of a Garden
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These patrol men should have had a lot more training now, been able to gone into the school, been able to move into what we call a diamond formation, where the actual patrol officers stack up in three-man teams and begin a methodical search of the entire building going directly to the threat, not actually waiting outside the school which is what we saw in Columbine.
CNN Transcript Apr 16, 2007
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Virginia bluebells, bellworts, wild ginger and wild columbines are only a few to be seen in the park.
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The bright spring day shone reassuringly on columbine and starflower.
The Welkening
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Now, gaudy flowers crowd the brooks - paintbrush, gentian, columbine.
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Provide bright flowers such as columbine, Japanese quince, scarlet sage, snapdragons, coral bells, trumpet honeysuckle, bee balm, phlox and others that are tube-shaped to attract hummingbirds.
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Atop City Hall in Toronto, downtown workers watch butterflies and birds loiter among native plants like bottlebrush grass, eastern columbines, grey-headed coneflowers and New Jersey tea bushes.
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Vuelve Michael Moore contra Bush: "estúpidos hombres blancos". (director de cine) (la cinta documental Bowling for Columbine) (Entrevista): An article from: Proceso by Sanjuana Martínez
OpEdNews - Quicklink: How Karl Rove played politics while people drowned
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Michael Moore who directed Bowling for Columbine was smart enough to interview MM for the doco.
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In the surrounding beds, hollyhocks soar and golden columbines provide bright splashes.
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Other wildflowers are common Solomon's seal, false Solomon's seal, two kinds of golden bellworts, hepatica, wild columbine, monkshood, bloodroot, toothwort, and wild ginger.
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This is also a prime time to plant shade-loving perennials such as colorful columbines and dicentras, with their unusual bleeding-heart-shaped flowers.
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The black barlow columbine is not as vigorous as some, but I have made sure the seeds are spread about in case there are losses.
Tree Peony Hatsugarasu « Fairegarden
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The same goes for roses, columbine, dahlias, veronicas, salvias and many perennials - and it's true for most annuals as well.
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Or in a real -- a practical -- sense, I'd like to write a book that some downtrodden kid in Nowhere Town, Idaho or Killmenow, Scotland might read and find some hope in, suddenly see that going Columbine on their classmates asses is not the only option.
Magic 101
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Columbine, which is a wild plant with blue or white flowers, as well as a domesticated one, has a toxic principle like that of the monkshood, more especially in the seeds; and the pretty red berries of the mezereon are responsible for the deaths or illness of children nearly every autumn.
The Naturalist on the Thames
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Among other plants which may cause serious mischief, but are seldom suspected, are such harmless-looking flowers as the meadowsweet, herb-paris, the common fool's-parsley, found growing in quantities in the gardens of unlet houses and neglected ground which has been in cultivation, mezereon, columbine, and laburnum.
The Naturalist on the Thames
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The sources are the OED (O), its supplements (Os) and the second edition of Webster's New International Dictionary (W). columbine dove c1386 - alcine auk W 1835 OW alcidine auk, puffin, corvine crow 1656 - etc.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
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We discern dangling-armed, doll-like Pierrot, the black-masked face and gaudy triangle-patched jumpsuit of Harlequin, the pert topknot of Columbine, the striped jerkin and rakish cowl of Mezzetin.
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Soon the columbine will appear, followed by achillea, wild grasses, coreopsis, daisies, several colors of coneflowers and asters.
Remember the power of flowers in your garden
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June come pinks of all sorts, specially the blushpink; roses of all kinds, except the musk, which comes later; honeysuckles; strawberries; bugloss; columbine; the French marigold, flos
The Essays
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Handsome at all seasons, in early spring bishop's hat is embellished by sprays of tiny flowers that resemble miniature columbine.
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The upper bed is mostly for perennials, including red-and-white columbines, purple blue campanulas, and tall blue delphiniums fronted by yellow and orange Iceland poppies.
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As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
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Deep-throated blooms such as columbines and salvias best serve butterflies with longer tongues.
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Called ‘Bowling for Columbine’ the film details the American love affair with guns, and the consequences thereof.
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Columbine-area teen in custody after MySpace. com posting showing guns.
MySpace ph34r « Snarkmarket
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Pinks and columbines, mullein and Canterbury bells, the burning blue of lupin and larkspur, the magenta plush tassels of love-lies-bleeding, the streaked and goffered rosettes of the French marigolds – they have about them the harmonious confusion, the riotous immobility of a crowd of stage peasantry during the principals 'duet.
Try Anything Twice
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Most columbine flowers have backward-projecting spurs that contain rich nectar that can only be reached by hummingbirds.
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_ -- Cover hardy perennials, such as peonies, larkspur, hollyhocks, columbines, iris, platycodons and perennial poppies, with a good coating of manure or other litter to a depth of 3 or 4 inches.
Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916
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The mound, from base to crown, was cloaked in flowers; in monkshood, columbine, goldenrod, blazingstar and others.
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Certainly, with Columbine, there was plenty of what we call leakage," Williams said.
Undefined
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Un tema así tiene que manejarse con cuidado; es muy sencillo manipular la información para provocar el miedo de la gente, ya que éste es una excelente herramienta de control social, además de que es un buen medio para impulsar el consumo, como señaló Marilyn Manson en Bowling for Columbine.
Pseudohistoria: 2012, el fin del mundo se acerca (��Otra vez?)
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Seeds of most hardy perennials - including bleeding heart, butterfly weed, columbine, delphinium, liatris, and penstemon - require a period of chilling to germinate.
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Together, we were able to buck the BradyCampaign/NRA coalition in 1999 (after the Columbine massacre) andwere able to defeat the gun control that was proposed in the wake ofthat shooting.
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