How To Use Love-lies-bleeding In A Sentence
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If only they wouldn't turn snapdragons into antirrhinums, love-lies-bleeding into amaranthus, and red-hot-pokers into kniphofias ....
Try Anything Twice
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I have been growing it for years as an ornamental, especially the cultivar love-lies-bleeding.
Vineyard Gazette - Top Stories
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You know 'love-lies-bleeding' is a flower, but it sounds allegorical the way I have put it in.
Turn About Eleanor
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There were hollyhocks, and noonsleeps, and tiger-lilies, and little patches of moss pinks, the tiny flowers all tangled in with their green foliage, and sweet williams, and love-lies-bleeding; and the children thought there was never such another garden in the world.
Frank and Fanny
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Vernacular names such as love-lies-bleeding and florimer (flor-amor) reflect this misunderstanding.
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Arnold's set presents an arid landscape studded with scrubby vegetation (love-lies-bleeding is a desert-blooming flower).
Times, Sunday Times
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Here a bouquet of dahlias, astilbe, and love-lies-bleeding is tucked into a wire basket embellished with supermarket rhubarb.
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Here a bouquet of dahlias, astilbe, and love-lies-bleeding is tucked into a wire basket embellished with supermarket rhubarb.
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Love-lies-bleeding, prized for its rope-like, blood-red blossoms, has traditionally been used to stanch bleeding and treat internal hemorrhage.
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The dark red Amaranthus caudatus is commonly called 'love-lies-bleeding'.
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Among her favorites are the love-lies-bleeding plants she grew from seeds collected by a musician friend.
Undefined
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In a moment he was gone, past the portulaca and love-lies-bleeding, past
Wild Wings A Romance of Youth
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Deep red love-lies-bleeding and cherry pink cleome flank cosmos in pink and rose shades.
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A garden, at one end of the house, was red with love-lies-bleeding and coxcombs, their deep hues contrasting with great clumps of marigolds and bachelor's-buttons, all claiming a preemption right over innumerable weeds and any amount of ribbon grass, that struggled hard to drive them out.
The Old Homestead
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Madeline sat very still, not saying a word, as she watched him march to and fro between the beds of verbena and love-lies-bleeding and portulaca.
Wild Wings A Romance of Youth
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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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Give me yon spray of love-lies-bleeding," she said; then as it rested against the lily in her hand, "Wounds may be cured," she said.
Sir Mortimer
