lychnis

How To Use lychnis In A Sentence

• When summer-flowering perennials such as bellflowers, geraniums, lychnis, Shasta daisies, and spiderworts finish blooming and start to look tattered, cut back their stems to the rosette of new foliage.
• I use this same technique for propagating all types of alpines this time year… from saxifrages to beardtongues, lychnis, gentians, androsaces, etc.
• A colony of 25 rare striped lychnis moth caterpillars has been found in a churchyard at Headbourne Worthy in Hampshire.
• Plants chosen for drought tolerance as well as color thrive here, including catmint (Nepeta ‘Blue Wonder’), ceanothus, lychnis, penstemon, purple coneflower, rockrose, rosemary, and star jasmine.
• Beds of poppies, hollyhocks, scarlet lychnis, and the most flaming flowers, border the edge of the walks, which extend till the perspective meets, and swarm with ladies and gentlemen in parti-coloured raiment. Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
• Violets, woodrushes, Silene, Lychnis, periwinkles and Alchemilla mollis are all plants that will thrive in the dry, shady conditions provided by the hedge, and for a splash of colour I could use climbing nasturtiums or morning glory.
• The scarlet lychnis and its many varieties are nearly past, but the large-flowered, Haag's, and others of that section, are in their prime, and showy plants they are. Scientific American Supplement, No. 299, September 24, 1881
• The grass is long and yet sparse; here and there a few flowers cling, hardy geraniums, lychnis, and the like, but they seem strangely out of place. Melody : the Story of a Child
• Pliny is said to have been one of the earliest authors to state that wearing the lychnis, or star variety of ruby, brings about favors from persons in power or with authority. Zolar’s Magick Of Color
• Conversely other plants, such as Petunia, Lychnis and Gazania, need light.