How To Use Cowslip In A Sentence
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We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
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Banks of primroses, drifts of bluebells and clusters of cowslips are now found only in secret, out-of-the-way places.
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In my garden I am happily growing the common primrose, cultivated cowslips, and primulas.
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She became conscious that the long grass was drenched and her shoes and stockings wet through; there was light enough to see in that grass the stars of jonquil, grape hyacinth and the pale cast-out tulips; there would be polyanthus, too, bluebells and cowslips — a few.
Flowering Wilderness
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They are scarcely more dissimilar than the primrose, the cowslip, and the oxlip, which have all been raised from the seed of the same plant, and are now regarded by botanists as varieties instead of species.
An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges
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I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding cowslip grow.
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The Cowslip Count took place in the spring of 2000 and we received data on over 2,000 places around the UK where cowslips, primroses and false oxlips are growing.
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Every year the fields and banks near Down House are dotted with cowslips and primroses, all members of the genus Primula.
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And in the spring they make of them excellent Minnow-tansies; for being washed well in salt, and their heads and tails cut off, and their guts taken out, and not washed after, they prove excellent for that use; that is, being fried with yolk of eggs, the flowers of cowslips and of primroses, and a little tansy; thus used they make a dainty dish of meat.
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation
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Cowslip and oxlip are familiar names of varieties of the same plant, and they bear so close a resemblance that it is hard to tell them apart.
The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton
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And I shall call the cockle-shells papa, for they are the biggest and strongest; and the dingle-bells shall be brother Hobart, and the cowslips brother
Mother Goose in Prose
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Mr Slaney said cowslips and primroses have flourished and a pond has developed naturally and become a haven for wildlife.
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Us have got a frame for growin 'things under glass, an' it had bin put down 'pon top this cowslip an' drawed 'en up.
Lying Prophets
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Banks of primroses, drifts of bluebells and clusters of cowslips are now found only in secret, out-of-the-way places or where they have been carefully preserved.
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The reason cowslip is called cowslip is because it tends to grow well when it has the help of a little extra nutrients and moisture as might be left behind by a passing cow.
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My 'lawn' contains at least bugloss, buttercup, celandine, clover, cowslip, dandelion, daisy, lady's smock, plantain and speedwell.
Times, Sunday Times
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The land was quiet and pleasant, with teasels, cowslips, bluebells, and dark soil ridged for spuds or glowing with oil seed rape.
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We found some, but not the great swathes that we had hoped for, although we were rewarded by plenty of patches of bluebells, drifts of wood anemones, a glade with masses of milkmaids and lots of primroses, cowslips and violas and bugle.
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The two acre garden is fresh with scent and the colours of cowslips and foxgloves.
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D'you know that the green of the cowslip is the most beautiful green in all Nature, Joan?
Lying Prophets
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I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding cowslip grow.
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In the damp fields surrounding the streams I found cowslip, self heal and mayflower.
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Primroses, cowslips, pansies, and the regular open-eyed white blossom of the wood anemone (or, to use the more elegant Hampshire name, the windflower), were set under our feet as thick as daisies in a meadow; but the pretty weed that we came to seek was coyer; and Ellen began to fear that we had mistaken the place or the season.
Our Village
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We received data on places around the UK where cowslips, primroses and false oxlips are growing.
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I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding cowslip grow.
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The warden and her volunteers had banished from the graveyard the regimental stripes of the lawn mower and the bleach lines of weed killers, encouraging instead a profusion of what nature writer Richard Mabey calls "the wild flowers of the English pastoral," such as primrose, lady's slipper and cowslip.
Stow the Mower, Stop Pulling
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One section of the garden is devoted to wildflowers, bluebells nodding gently in the breeze, surrounded by cowslips and violets.
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Roses vied for attention with more common blooms—cowslip, stock, gillyflowers, and white violets.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
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Theatre became less serious and more sensational; the great national concerns gave way to domestic intrigue; the smell of cowslips and violets to musk and civet, if not in reality then in the imagery of the plays.
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Primrose, cowslip, lady's mantle, bugle, thrift, clustered bellflower are widely available in garden centres, but are all natives.
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Then I noticed a small clump of cowslips growing wild at the foot of a tree by the lake.
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Primula florindae, the Himalayan cowslip, was the next in the sequence to flower, starting in late June and finishing at the end of July.
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He wanders in the nearby hills and woods to gather cuckooflowers, cowslips, stitchworts, elder flowers and of course nettles.
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Red cowslip by variation has become non-dimorphic, and with this change of structure has become much more productive of seed than even the heteromorphic union of the common cowslip.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2
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There are flowers running the gamut from native wildflowers such as the cowslip to exotic foreigners.
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Primrose, cowslip, lady's mantle, bugle, thrift, clustered bellflower are widely available in garden centres, but are all natives.
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The Burren's gold is obvious - the simple carpets of cowslips in April and the 24-carat Cartier rockroses in June.
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True to Chris's intentions, the two acre garden is fresh with scent and the colours of cowslips and foxgloves, daffodils and dandelions.
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The crocus, the cowslip and its near relation, the primrose and the other early wild flowers will soon follow.
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_If a child be delicate, is there any objection to a little wine, such as cowslip or tent, to strengthen him_?
Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children
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In April follow the double white violet; the wall-flower; the stock-gilliflower; the cowslip; flower-delices, and lilies of all natures; rosemary-flowers; the tulippa; the double peony; the pale daffodil; the French honeysuckle; the cherry-tree in blossom; the damson and plum-trees in blossom; the white thorn in leaf; the lilac-tree.
XLVI. Of Gardens
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We gathered a few, however, by way of doing our Maying, adding to them some violets scattered along the roadside, and a bunch of the golden flowers of the marsh marigold, which enticed us off the road into a low, boggy spot, by their bright blossoms; a handsome flower, this – the country people call it cowslip, though differing entirely from the true plant of that name.
Rural Hours
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My 'lawn' contains at least bugloss, buttercup, celandine, clover, cowslip, dandelion, daisy, lady's smock, plantain and speedwell.
Times, Sunday Times
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A crossroads pointed the way to innumerable destinations: Honeysuckle Wood, Cowslip Meadow, Dandelion Green, and, less rustically the Suburbs.
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In the damp fields surrounding the streams I found cowslip, self heal and mayflower.
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Evelyn also listed cowslip among eight flowers which were to be infused in vinegar and eaten in composed salads or alone.
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As if to confirm this, a green hairstreak butterfly appeared and its green-gold brilliance together with the cowslips seemed to fill the column of air above that place with a burst of light.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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O'er the muir, amang the heather," Eleanor's walk had gone; and her basket was gay with gorse and broom just opening; but from grassy banks on her way she had brought the bright blue speedwell; and clematis and bryony from the hedges, and from under them wild hyacinth and white campion and crane's-bill and primroses; and a meadow she had passed over gave her one or two pretty kinds of orchis, with daisies and cowslips, and grasses of various kinds.
The Old Helmet
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Lordy massy, yest 'day arternoon I see yer Aunt Keziah an' yer Aunt Lois out a cuttin 'cowslip greens t'other side o' th 'river, an' the sun it shone so bright, an 'the turtles an' frogs they kind o 'peeped so pleasant, an' yer aunts they sot on the bank so kind o 'easy an' free, an 'I stood there a lookin' on 'em, an 'I could n't help a thinkin', 'Lordy messy, I wish t' I wus an old maid. '
Oldtown Folks
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Rain drops on the cowslip flower by our feet, without disturbing us.
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True to Chris's intentions, the two acre garden is fresh with scent and the colours of cowslips and foxgloves, daffodils and dandelions.
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The land was quiet and pleasant, with teasels, cowslips, bluebells, and dark soil ridged for spuds or glowing with oil seed rape.
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English proverb, "As blake as a paigle," means, "As yellow as a cowslip.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Bedlam cowslip: the paigle, or larger kind of cowslip.
Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"
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Primrose, cowslip, lady's mantle, bugle, thrift, clustered bellflower are widely available in garden centres, but are all natives.
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We rounded the corner and there, in the sunlight, was a vision of massed giant Tibetan cowslips, a beautiful saffron.
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The P. veris of Linnaeus's time is still to this day known as the cowslip.
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If you're lucky you might just see some cowslips and the last of the snow drops.
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The trees are alive and leafy, the shrubs are pushing, and the spring flowers, wood anemones, violets, and the oxlip (which in this country takes the place of the primrose and the cowslip) flower beautifully among the shell-holes, rags, and old tins of war.
The Old Front Line
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Portions of marmalade had likewise been distributed on a service of plates constructed of curlpaper; and cowslip wine had been quaffed from the small squat measuring glass in which little Rickitts (a junior of weakly constitution) took her steel drops daily.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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And there's another fine view of the village from above if you walk up the hillside nearby and sit among the cowslips.
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Two young ladies, and a gentleman seeming not far from young, stood at the end of the coach to watch the success of the driver and Mr. Cowslip in disinterring sundry trunks and boxes from under the boot and a load of other trunks and boxes.
The Hills of the Shatemuc
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In spring, the pale, delicate yellows of stiff cowslips are succeeded by the stronger chromes of sprawling birdsfoot trefoil and buttercup.
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Primroses, cowslips and swallows are everywhere and the softening in the weather is a sure sign that brighter and warmer days are near.
