polyanthus

How To Use polyanthus In A Sentence

• But the polyanthus are the ones that I'm finding irresistible.
• After I had observed every flower, and listened to a disquisition on every plant, I was permitted to depart; but first, with great pomp, he plucked a polyanthus and presented it to me, as one conferring a prodigious favour. Agnes Grey
• And everywhere I look there are primulas and polyanthus showing their bright little flowers.
• 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
• Even on the most dismal of wet, windy days the quality of O'Meara's stock is apparent, from the dazzling display of winter colour polyanthus and camellias to the serried rows of bushes and trees, both bare-rooted and in containers.
• We motored over to the garden centre for winter flowering pansies and polyanthus.
• I found periwinkles and primroses in full flower, bluebells, just coming along nicely thank you, grape hyacinths, and polyanthus.
• The walls were hung with cloth of silver, embroidered with gold figures, over which were worked pomegranates, polyanthuses, and passion-flowers, in ruby, amethyst, and smaragd. Burlesques
• Auriculas and polyanthus should be lifted, divided and replanted as they go out of flower.
• The pansies and polyanthus we've already planted seem to be tough little blighters, not much at risk.