How To Use Polyanthus In A Sentence
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But the polyanthus are the ones that I'm finding irresistible.
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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
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And everywhere I look there are primulas and polyanthus showing their bright little flowers.
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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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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.
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We motored over to the garden centre for winter flowering pansies and polyanthus.
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I found periwinkles and primroses in full flower, bluebells, just coming along nicely thank you, grape hyacinths, and polyanthus.
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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
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Auriculas and polyanthus should be lifted, divided and replanted as they go out of flower.
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The pansies and polyanthus we've already planted seem to be tough little blighters, not much at risk.
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It was driven by his gardener, and filled to overflowing with azaleas and polyanthus, and great bunches of irises and tulips and freesias.
Politics 101
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Such spring-flowering perennials as the white arabis, herbaceous candytufts, aubretias, primulas, and polyanthuses, should now be placed in situations where it is desired for them to flower.
Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young
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Divide primula and polyanthus after flowering, and move any that are badly placed
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`Page 45 is ours,' he announced proudly and read out, ```Specialities,' it says, ``snowdrops and polyanthus '.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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There is nothing more showy in a spring garden than Polyanthus primroses.
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The bright polyanthus around the edge of the grass were looking vulnerable.
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Most gardeners know - and grow - primroses and polyanthus.
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Polyanthus primulas and pansies make for a reliable show.
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Other jobs include dividing primulas and polyanthus once they have finished flowering.
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There might have been dark clouds overhead but on the ground the magnificent colours of the hundreds of daffodils, grape hyacinths and polyanthus helped to dispel the gloom.
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Auricula primroses are very different from the Candelabra and Polyanthus primroses.
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And there are planters full of winter and spring bulbs to be repositioned, along with troughs containing flowering polyanthus, showing the first signs of bud already.
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But the winter container's secret weapon, planted in layers under showy pansies or polyanthus, is the spring-flowering bulb.
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The terraced gardens were full of spring flowers — wallflower and tulip, fruit blossom and early clematis, aubrietia, polyanthus, and arabis.
Through the Wall
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A sale of primrose and polyanthus will take place after 8 p.m. Mass on Saturday evening and Sunday morning in aid of the Graves Memorial Fund.
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The polyanthus are among the earliest primroses in bloom; put them to work giving color power to the season's first outdoor container plantings.
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English spring, when celandines open their yellow under the hedges, and violets are in the secret, and by the broad paths of the garden polyanthus and crocuses vary the velvet and flame, and bits of yellow wallflower shake raggedly, with a wonderful triumphance, out of the cracks of the wall.
The Ladybird
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Then I count three, and if any of you can guess the word during that time we shall all start together for the nearest polyanthus, and when we reach it call 'polyanthus.'
Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young
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Golden Tears - a yellow trailing eschscholtzia or California poppy, suitable as ground cover or for a hanging basket - was also bred by T&M, as was Discovering Stripes, a striking darkly striped polyanthus.
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Other jobs include dividing primulas and polyanthus once they have finished flowering.
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Divide primula and polyanthus after flowering, and move any that are badly placed.
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She went nimbly round and round the beds of anemones, tulips, jonquils, polyanthuses, and other old-fashioned flowers, looking a very charming figure in her half-mourning bonnet, and with an incomplete nosegay in her left hand.
Wessex Tales
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She took a big patch and sowed many packets of seeds there She bought little plants too, gay double daisies, velvet pansies and pretty polyanthus to make the borders of her patch gay.
Summer Term At St Clare's
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There were pale yellow polyanthus, and blue forget-me-nots coming into flower round the edge: and all the centre was filled with pansies.
Bonecrack
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They are, however, very distinct on the one hand from the primrose (_Primula vulgaris_ or _acaulis_) and polyanthus
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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Fiddy's bedchamber, and by the mere sleight of hand of tying on a worked apron with vine clusters and leaves and tendrils all in purple and green floss silks, pinning a pink bow under her mob-cap, and sticking in her bosom a bunch of dewy ponceau polyanthuses, had beat him most completely.
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
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The terraced gardens were full of spring flowers — wallflower and tulip, fruit blossom and early clematis, aubrietia, polyanthus, and arabis.
Through the Wall
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You can use spring-flowering bulbs to give the vertical spires in the tabletop garden, and surround these with lower undulating hummocks of all the best spring bedding - violas, polyanthus, bellis, schizanthus.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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`But the polyanthus would bring a song of joy to your heart.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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We have one pansy and a single polyanthus in bloom at home right now, a very poor showing, so I relished the massed blooms.
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Because polyanthus are more difficult to germinate, start them off in seed trays or pots in a greenhouse or cold frame.
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And everywhere I look there are primulas and polyanthus showing their bright little flowers.
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I found periwinkles and primroses in full flower, bluebells, just coming along nicely thank you, grape hyacinths, and polyanthus.
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Especially as I look out the conservatory window at my garden at the moment; there are a few pansies, violas and polyanthus making a supreme effort but generally my garden looks decrepit.
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I told another little boy (I believe it was Leighton, who afterwards became a well-known lichenologist and botanist), that I could produce variously coloured polyanthuses and primroses by watering them with certain coloured fluids, which was of course a monstrous fable, and had never been tried by me.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin
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Most gardeners know - and grow - primroses and polyanthus.
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I think I now have _two_ wicked hummingbirds; certainly, there was a hummer every time I turned round, it seemed, even on my deck checking out the polyanthus.
Happy Easter.
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BDA have a limited number of potted polyanthus and primrose plants in full bloom for sale.
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And there have been more black beetles in Vendale since than ever were known before; all, of course, owing to Tom's having blacked the original papa of them all, just as he was setting off to be married, with a sky-blue coat and scarlet leggings, as smart as a gardener's dog with a polyanthus in his mouth.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2
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The polyanthus have been flowering since, ooh, October-ish, but the tiny narcissi began to bloom at the weekend.
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Tulips and hyacinths, and polyanthuses and primroses, were in a flush of spring glory now; violets breathed everywhere; the snowy-flowered gooseberry and the red-flowered currant, and berberry with its luxuriant yellow bloom, and the almond, and a magnificent magnolia blossoming out in the arms of its evergreen sister, with many another flower less known to Eleanor, made the garden-terraces a little wilderness of loveliness and sweetness.
The Old Helmet
