| 单词 | phlox |
| 例句 | White Queen Anne’s lace and purple phlox and big orange daylilies blossomed along the road. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z His head was a tumult of smells—phlox in bloom, ashes, cow dung, dog, cat, hens, stagnant water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The elder son ran from the shore and brought his mother back a phlox flower, which he presented to her with great show of gallantry. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I love the low-growing phlox of the spring shade garden, but I stopped growing garden phlox years ago because of its susceptibility to powdery mildew. Granny’s flowers these are not: Two perennials that deserve a revival 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Combine them with the spicily scented flowers of Phlox paniculata ‘David,’ one of the latest bloomers in the phlox clan. Plant these for a breath of fresh fall air 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Could she have found phlox in New York? Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z Floral designer Gaye Drummond of Savannah shows us how to create an easy, elegant tabletop arrangement of roses, peonies, hyacinths, phlox, and common snowball viburnums. Elegant Tabletop Arrangement 2011-02-11T17:50:03.470Z Mr. Grant has introduced more than 50 cultivars: roses, bluebonnets, mums, phloxes, salvias, verbenas. Every Plant Has a Story. You Just Need to Dig. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z What is particularly valuable about garden phlox is that it blooms in the dog days of July and August, when a lot of perennials have gone on vacation. Granny’s flowers these are not: Two perennials that deserve a revival 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z The latter course is especially effective in spring-themed beds, where bulbs pop up between such things as hellebores, epimediums, creeping phlox, foam flowers, Virginia bluebells, Solomon’s seal and ferns. Perspective | Planting bulbs offers a bit of hope for better things to come. Even this year. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z We logged more than 20 species, including a sedge, the shade-tolerant stonecrop Sedum ternatum, the wild cranesbill Geranium maculatum, spring beauties, phlox, a yellow flowering violet and the wood aster. What you can learn from a walk through the woods 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Working from the outside in, insert stems of flowers into the foam, alternating among the viburnums, roses, hyacinths, phlox, and peonies. Elegant Tabletop Arrangement 2011-02-11T17:50:03.470Z In his own flower garden, some of the plant selections are decidedly old-fashioned and include garden phlox, bearded iris and delphiniums. How do you cultivate a garden with soul? Hint: It doesn’t happen in a day. 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z An accomplished amateur artist, she often made paintings of the roses and delphiniums, phlox and snakeroot she so lovingly nurtured. Landscape Architect Ronald van der Hilst Reimagines a Garden in the Netherlands 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z “What are the most visually dominant species? Perhaps the phlox, geranium and carex, and as a groundcover the sedum.” What you can learn from a walk through the woods 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z The trial extended to other, lesser-known and earlier-blooming phlox species that may be hard to find but are worth the effort. Granny’s flowers these are not: Two perennials that deserve a revival 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z Cuba Center features one of the best trillium collections in the country: sweeps of Virginia bluebells, ground phlox, and showy celandine poppy. The South's Best Garden Tours 2012-03-01T19:20:03.413Z You associate some of the lower plantings with moist soil — the royal fern, turtlehead and creeping phlox, for example — but others you’d think would run a mile from flood. Many rain gardens fall flat. This one shows how it’s done. 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z In the confusion of the time she hadn’t been able to remember that Mike also loved the phlox that grew by the side of their house. Fiction: “Double Take” by Jessica Francis Kane 2013-03-02T16:00:00Z This weekend, visitors can enjoy clipping their own bouquets full of fall favorites such as zinnias, sunflowers, celosia, phlox and marigolds. Enjoy That Last Gasp of Summer 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z Also known as wild phlox, the plant blooms with soft peachy pink fading to white blossoms at the top of fuzzy stems that grow 2 to 3 feet tall. A pro picks wildlife-friendly native annuals for Pacific NW gardens 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z The resulting bunch of purple hydrangeas, lavender phlox and an assortment of cheery white flowers looked like a celebration of summer and generosity. Devoted volunteers create weekly floral arrangements for Seattle churches 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z One Maryland couple fought their homeowner association over their decision to grow sunflowers and phlox instead of grass. Corporate Landscaping Lets Its Hair Down 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z And there’s one about gardening — no surprise to gardeners certain that their hobby is all-encompassing: “Back in my quaint garden, jaunty zinnias vie with flaunting phlox.” Here's a gardening primer of terms you should know before you dig in 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z When the Queen's coffin left Balmoral Castle, it was accompanied by a wreath made of dahlias, sweet peas, phlox, white heather and pine fir, all collected by her staff from the Balmoral Estate. The personal touches in Her Majesty's colourful wreath 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z It had been a dry summer, but the lavender Phenomenal was still thriving despite the heat, and so was the garden phlox, a favorite of the hummingbird clearwing moth. Perspective | Creating a garden as a refuge for pollinators — and myself 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Summer flower garden stars to start indoors now include cosmos, marigolds, scabiosa, stock and phlox. It’s time: How to start a veggie garden this year | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z I have heard that phlox will produce repeat blooms quicker if it is not deadheaded. Gardening expert weighs in on fall veggies, what to plant in a wet, shady strip and more 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z This month's Pink Supermoon is named after pink flowers called wild ground phlox, which bloom in early spring throughout the United States and Canada. Pink Supermoon seen around the world 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z Burnett Woods features an easy 1.5-mile trail on 80 acres near Avon, and is an outstanding place to see wildflowers including including wild geranium, woodland phlox and trillium. Land trust’s `challenge’ aims to get Hoosiers back outdoors 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z The process starts with learning the names, because without knowing who’s who, we can get distracted: Dame’s rocket is beautiful, masquerading as lavender-and-white roadside drifts of tall phlox in late spring. The Dirty Secret About Weeding 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z The April full moon is known as the pink moon, on account of the herb moss pink, also known as wild ground phlox, according to NASA. Super pink moon: NASA's top tips for April skywatchers 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z So roses, delphiniums, chrysanthemums, day lilies, hydrangeas and tall phlox would also like that mulch of compost that the vegetables get. Cover your ground, for your plants’ sake | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z April’s full moon was nicknamed the “pink moon” by Native Americans for the pink wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest flowers to grow in spring, according to The Old Farmer’s Almanac. Full ‘Pink moon’: What to know about April's full moon rising Easter weekend 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z Burnett Woods, 8264 E. CR 100S, Avon: Offers a perfect spring hike for the whole family, with an easy 1.5-mile trail that features a stunning display of wildflowers, including wild geranium, woodland phlox and trillium. Land trust’s `challenge’ aims to get Hoosiers back outdoors 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z Among flower seeds, the shortest-lived are delphinium, aster, candytuft and phlox. Are your old seed packets worth planting? Here’s how to tell | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z White cushion phlox blanket the ground, purple silvery lupine sway and nod in lush patches, and orange-red scarlet paintbrush dots the landscape as you wander along trails. The 22 best US national parks to escape the crowds, chosen by experts 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z While the phlox family is largely perennial, we love the showy annual varieties for their vigor. These Are the 10 Best Flowers to Plant This Fall 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z Night phlox can be tricky to grow in the garden, but it’s easy in a container. These fragrant flowers provide an aromatic treat after the sun goes down 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Surrounding them were rows of cucumbers and a bank of purple phlox flowers. Lake Elmo youth garden raises spirits - as well as veggies 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z I was absent-mindedly watering some newly planted phlox in front of our house when I saw the woman. Getting older means having something to say, whether others listen or not 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Among the confused plants were moss phlox, bottlebrush buckeye, hellebores and witch-hazel. December Heat Tricks Flowers Into Putting On Spring Display 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z Lavender phlox, a massive chunk of granite bedrock and majestic oaks frame the setting, with a barn with attached silo, plank-board fencing and pastureland in the background. 3 Connecticut Farms Serving Homemade Ice Cream 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z White valerian, pink phlox, orange lilies, and red columbine. Scientist on Rainier chases climate change’s butterfly effect 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z So on Wednesday, Williams and her 5-year-old daughter, Taya, helped seven Green River Preserve campers plant phlox, purple coneflower, swamp hibiscus, yarrow and other nectar-producing plants at the camp’s farm on Green River Road. Folk singer visits NC to drum up support for bees 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z The meadow was full of mullein, Queen Anne’s lace, clover and phlox. At Home With Dennis Wedlick: In Pursuit of the Perfectly Passive 2013-08-14T22:07:42Z Herbaceous ground cover plants like periwinkle and creeping phlox, and low-growing herbs like wooly thyme may fit your scheme. Ask an Expert: Gardening Advice for Aging Bodies, Part 2 2013-06-26T11:00:01Z Leopold's woodland phlox first bloomed on April 28; last year, it flowered on April 4. Green Blog: In Thoreau's Flower Journal, Clues for Climatologists 2013-01-16T22:29:08Z This is the zone of rhododendron, shushula, phlox, and painted brush. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Even with the calendar still declaring winter, forsythias, phlox and magnolias were already abloom. City Room: Spring Time - Spring Comes to a City Woodland 2012-03-20T15:23:04Z The flowers are often showy and beautiful, and some of them closely resemble the phloxes. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z In Mr. Say's garden I likewise saw Euphorbia marginata, from Arkansas, several beautiful phlox; and the Lonicera sempervirens was laden with its ripe fruit. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Ceaseless are locusts; heavy is the air above the garden, where phlox and strawberry shrub tinge it Persian-sweet. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a saraband. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The canna, nasturtium, phlox, trumpet-flower, salvia, and a host of others, delight his eye and his palate. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Its fragile flowers vary from pure white to lilac and a lovely rose-pink, and look like small phloxes. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Vines twined round the trunks of the trees, and the numerous blossoms of the phlox formed blue spots amongst the rocks. Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII 2012-02-08T03:00:17.410Z Some of them, companioned by the faithful phlox and sunflower, once grew in dooryards now desolate. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Take roses red and lilies white, A kitchen-garden's my delight; Its gillyflowers and phlox and cloves, And its tall cote of irised doves. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z Low-growing zinnias in futuristic colors, high phlox in pastel colors; higher, Canterbury bells, deep blue; highest of all, hollyhocks, wine red. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z And quick leaves cast a shimmer of green Against our whited walls, And in the phlox, the courteous bees Are paying duty calls. Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z And everywhere in the sunshine stretched the flat-woods, magnificently green—endless miles of pine and oak and palmetto, set with brilliant glades of vast, flat fields of wild phlox over which butterflies hovered. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z Here japonica and box, And the wayward violets; Clumps of star-enamelled phlox, And the myriad flowery jets Of the twilight four-o'-clocks. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z The path runs straight between the flowering rows, A moonlit path hemmed in by beds of bloom, Where phlox and marigolds dispute for room With tall, red dahlias and the briar rose. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z No purple phlox adorns the locks Of scanty hair that fringe my cranium; No garlands deck my shapely neck With jasmine or geranium. The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z All around the garden I had flower beds about 4 feet wide filled with marigolds, zenias, bachelor buttons, asters, and phlox. The Teaching of Art Related to the Home Suggestions for content and method in related art instruction in the vocational program in home economics 2011-06-24T02:00:19.850Z What she called the "lawn" was only a vast sheet of pink and white phlox, now all misty with the whirring wings of sphinx-moths and Noctuid�. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z Oh! it is little Margery who has a garden-bed, Wherein grow purple pansies and geraniums white and red, With feverfew and dahlias, and delicate pink phlox, And grandmother's fair favorites, old-fashioned hollyhocks. Memorial Day and Other Verse 2011-05-20T02:00:35.647Z Through yon ragged rows of box, By that awkward clump of phlox, To her favorite pansy bed Like a ray of light, she sped. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z In the rear of the house is the garden, famous for its phloxes, the scene of many walks and family confidences. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z Gardens there were with fragrant wall-flowers filled, And daffodils, and rhododendrons pale, And sweet, old-fashioned pinks, phlox, rosemary; An avenue of elms, with cottages, And barefoot children sporting on the green. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z Her full, elegant figure, about which some soft, black material fell in graceful folds, stood out against the background of a clump of pale purple phlox in luxuriant bloom. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z The blooms vary from magenta to white and would make a nice addition to shade garden plantings of trillium, solomon’s seal and woodland phlox. Primroses can get you primed for spring 2011-03-16T20:23:21Z The hardy phlox sways to some garments' flow; The salvia there with sudden scarlet streams, Caught from some ribbon of some throat that gleams, Petunia fair, in flounce and furbelow. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z All the seeds came up well save the phlox, with which we had small luck, and the Papaver Orientalis, with which we had no luck at all. The Idyl of Twin Fires The wind comes heavy freighted from the wood, With jasmine, honeysuckle, iris, phlox, And lilies red and white; The blue lake murmurs, and the world seems all A garden of delight. The Cornflower, and Other Poems 2011-04-07T02:00:18.740Z Clove-spicy pinks and phlox that fill the sense With drowsy indolence; And in the evening skies Interior splendor, pregnant with surprise, As if in some new wise The full moon soon would rise. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy Where phlox and asters grew, A leafless thornbush stands, And shrubs that never knew Her tender hands... Challenge "Why, up on the farm—the phlox, you know." The Jonathan Papers Wait, now, P–ph–phlox–my, this is like the dictionary! The Idyl of Twin Fires There was a garden in front, with tall Mary-lilies and pink-and-white phlox and roses and carnations and thrift that grew down to the palings. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune There a tattered marigold And dead asters manifold, Showed him where the garden old Of time bloomed: Briar and thistle overgrew Corners where the rose once blew, Where the phlox of every hue Lay entombed. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy It is well adapted for outdoor living, with its wide, inviting veranda and the side garden where bloom the stately phlox, the gaudy poppies, and the bright-hued marigold. Remodeled Farmhouses And I jumped off the porch and went back to the phlox to plan out my campaign. The Jonathan Papers The stock was little higher than the phlox. The Idyl of Twin Fires On the farther side stood a cottage with diamonded lattices and a gabled roof and a garden full of deep crimson phlox glowing against a background of gnarled and somber hawthorns. Sinister Street, vol. 2 These were days when Joan and May Carthew went down the village street with great bunches of Michaelmas daisies, of phloxes and Japanese anemones, or sat beneath the mulberry tree, sewing in the bee-drowsed air. Sinister Street, vol. 1 There were acres of beautiful blue larkspur, crimson phlox, varieties of poppies, and other yellow flowers, besides many that I failed to recognize as we rushed along. A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 As he came up to me and dismounted I held out to him a spray of white phlox. The Jonathan Papers I remember she was out amid the phlox—such brilliant, luxuriant phlox as it was! Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play The air was perfumed by numerous tufts of a beautiful phlox, and of a still handsomer and very fragrant cruciform flower, of a genus hitherto undescribed. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea Nothing at Basingstead Minor seemed to have changed in five years, from the dun pony to the phloxes in the garden, from the fantail pigeons to the gardener who fed the pigs. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Little cool puffs came to us across a bed of glimmering white phlox, bearing with them its peculiar, loamy fragrance. The Book of Susan A Novel Forgotten—and as I lie in the long grass, drowsy with the scent of the hedge and the phlox, I seem only a memory myself. The Jonathan Papers The word phlox conveys to many people the idea of a tall autumn-flowering plant, with large umbels of flowers, individually about the size of a shilling. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them Tufts of the beautiful phlox, before mentioned, were scattered over these, otherwise unsightly wastes; and, notwithstanding the scanty vegetation, rein-deer were numerous. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea The Rector came out as she reached it, and accepted vaguely the information that there were no flowers to be seen but Michaelmas daisies and phlox. Plashers Mead A Novel Not in vain did I wait, departed summer, amid your phlox! One Day & Another A Lyrical Eclogue The tiger lilies in the old stump were bending with their load of wetness, the phlox in the garden was weighed down till its white masses nearly touched earth. The Jonathan Papers Such things as delphiniums, phloxes, campanulas, and quick-growing subjects in general, should not be left too long without being divided, or the flowers will dwindle, and the plants become straggling in habit. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them Violets, red roses, pink phlox, nodded their heads in greeting. The Shadow I must send you some clumps of this phlox to Galton. Plashers Mead A Novel The gardens, too, contain flowers that Betty Washington must have enjoyed—bushes of lilac, mock orange, and bridal wreath and beds of pansies, sweet william, phlox, verbena and lilies of the valley. Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia I'm not; but don't you remember about the phlox? The Jonathan Papers Cut down all dead stalks of dahlias, sunflowers, phloxes, etc. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them I am reliving days when the warm sun, falling on radiant slopes of grass, lit the meadow phlox and tall tiger lilies to flaming torches of color. The Book of Courage Lethierry allowed her to soil her fingers a little in gardening, and even in some kind of household duties: she watered her beds of pink hollyhocks, purple foxgloves, perennial phloxes, and scarlet herb bennets. Toilers of the Sea I shall find bell-flower spires beside the gap And lady phlox within the hollow's cool; Cedar with sudden memories of Yule Above the tangle tipped with blue skullcap. Song-Surf Perhaps the sweet peas began it, but I really think the whole thing began with the phlox. The Jonathan Papers Down this side of the gravel walk She went while her robe's edge brushed the box: And here she paused in her gracious talk To point me a moth on the milk-white phlox. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation About the embers of a burned dwelling, elder, love-pop, and other wild things spread themselves in rank complacency, strange bed-fellows adversity had thrust in upon the frightened sweet-Betsy, phlox and jonquils of the ruined garden. John March, Southerner Mrs. Pope offered me young sunflower seedlings only a week or two ago, and Miss Babbs is always offering me phloxes, and wallflowers, and things. Anxious Audrey Enormous pink poppies, phlox, and roses grow in riotous abandon, while old-fashioned periwinkle covers the roots of ancient trees. Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria When October came, we took Aunt Deborah's phlox and transplanted it to where it could get the sunshine it had been starving for all those years. The Jonathan Papers She was sitting by the dining-room window; it was open, and a pitcher of wild phlox and pink-and-white wake-robins stood in it. Happy Days for Boys and Girls Cautiously she selected a head of white phlox. The Camerons of Highboro Geraniums, phlox, mignonette, roses, snapdragons, and pansies made the beds gay, while at the back of them great bushes of Michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums stood erect, neatly tied up to stakes. The Making of Mona That was a sublime faith, but I should choose a more winsome path—bordered with marigolds, perhaps, or phlox. Liége on the Line of March An American Girl's Experiences When the Germans Came Through Belgium There, I think, on that lonely grave, Violets spring in the soft May shower; There, in the summer breezes, wave Crimson phlox and moccasin-flower. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition The Doctor found up there a new phlox and a pretty pink stone-crop, to add to our herbarium, while here as elsewhere the bignonia grows profusely in every crevice of the rock. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo On the stalks of larkspur and phlox she laid a mass of pink snapdragons and white candytuft, tucking in here and there sprays of just-opening baby’s-breath to give a misty look to the basket. The Camerons of Highboro The mild faces of violets and pansies, the gaudy blotches of phlox, stood out like nature. A Breath of Prairie and other stories A smell of stocks came in, and across the lawn, rows of dahlias, phlox, and autumn lilies made a belt of glowing color against a dark yew hedge. Partners of the Out-Trail It is especially fond of the sweet-scented phlox. Harper's Young People, October 12, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly I am re-living days when the warm sun, falling on radiant slopes of grass, lit the meadow phlox and tall tiger lilies into flaming torches of color. A Son of the Middle Border Over the low fence, the blue phlox, that dainty carpeting of the May woods, shut its starry flowers, and lay close to the ground. Getting Acquainted with the Trees A trowel was sticking in the dry earth near the flower bed, where poppies, and pansies, and petunias, and phlox bordered the walk. The Dark Star The apricots had lost their leaves, so had the grapevines and the fig-trees; but the peach-trees were in foliage; pansies and perpetual roses bloomed amid sere and seedy thickets of larkspurs, phlox, and dead delphinium. The Maids of Paradise They even encroached upon the barnyard; the manure heap was screened from view by a wall of sunflowers and golden glow and a rainbow avenue of late phlox led down to the pig-pens. In Orchard Glen The herbaceous border grows luxuriant phloxes and delphiniums, but the background of glass houses sets a wrong light about it. Highways and Byways in Surrey Down this side of the gravel-walk She went while her robe's edge brushed the box;10 And here she paused in her gracious talk To point me a moth on the milk-white phlox. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning And we had banks of calliopsis and sunflowers—the small sunflowers of Kansas, that bloom a hundred or more to a stalk—and tall phlox whose fragrance carries one back to some far, forgotten childhood. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm The two strolled together into the old flower garden where verbenas and phlox and late asters and early chrysanthemums and a few monthly roses under Miss Jane’s 162 careful covering had weathered the first frosts. Winning the Wilderness And quick leaves cast a shimmer of green, Against our whited walls, And in the phlox, the courteous bees, Are paying duty calls. When Winter Comes to Main Street The cottages which add themselves to whatever is old in neighbouring buildings are designed to fit with a scheme; the cottage gardens are challenges of roses and phloxes, which shall be brightest. Highways and Byways in Surrey Especially if the phlox turned out magenta, one could slip away with scarcely a pang. Fairy Prince and Other Stories I don't see why those people stopped at all," Harry said, "for there's dandelion, and phlox and marigold, and a whole lot of other flower names. Princess Polly At Play There had been flowers all the way—wild phlox, the primrose, the creeping periwinkle, and white and red dentura, together with many trees of brilliant foliage similar in color to our Autumn tints. Travels in the Far East These, madam, are my daffodils, My pinks, my hollyhocks, My herds upon a hundred hills, My phloxes and my flocks. From a Cornish Window A New Edition The names of many of the quaint varieties that flourish in old-fashioned gardens, as lilacs, phlox, larkspur, and marigolds, are absent from the list. Quilts Their Story and How to Make Them The tall-growing hardy phlox is a garden mainstay through August, September and October. Making a Garden of Perennials One does not care to transfer marigolds, poppies, lilacs, phlox, cockscomb, and cabbage-roses from their own garden-homes to the more elevated sphere of domestic life. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Her Michaelmas daisies and perennial phloxes—flowers of her anxious care—were in full bloom. Shining Ferry Cousin Margaret's garden is flaming in the August days with phlox, and is fragrant with day lilies. Mistress Anne Did a lover of flowers covet a new phlox or dahlia or other old-fashioned flower, Granny Hogendobler was ready to give of her stock. Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' The garden is flooded with sunshine; and the marigolds, the phlox, the jasmines, the scabious and the mallows push their heads above their white railing. The Choice of Life It was a commonplace little burial ground with a few trees and here and there a bed of lilies or phlox, yet it had charm. A Daughter of the Middle Border I can shut my eyes and see the old Preble farm and my mother in her phlox bed, calling to me to drive the bees away. The Forbidden Trail Beyond the cherry-red phloxes outside it the ground fell rapidly to the village, rising again beyond the houses to a great stubble field, newly shorn. Bessie Costrell She stood now in her steep mountain garden bordered with phlox and larkspur and looked far out over the long and many ridges. The Long Roll Hazel afterwards remarked that “her face was as cold as an iceberg and the odor of perfume about her was enough to asphyxiate a field of phlox and shooting-stars.” Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation You may select from the following list: phlox, petunias, China asters, California poppies, sweet peas, pinks, double and single sunflowers, hibiscus, candytuft, balsams, morning-glories, stocks, nasturtiums, verbenas, mignonette. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Annuals.—African daisy, ageratum, aster, calendula, calliopsis, balsam, candytuft, cornflower, cosmos, marigold, mignonette, nasturtium, petunia, poppy, stock, sweet alyssum, sweet-pea, verbena, zinnia, annual phlox, red sunflower, cut-and-come-again sunflower. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools He found her at last by the herbacious border, keeping touch with the flight of a sphinx-head moth along the tall white rockets of phlox. The Lovely Lady Allan held a great stalk of garden phlox, white and sweet. The Long Roll It is a big, old-fashioned house, and there is a lovely garden, full of roses and lilies, and phlox and stocks and hollyhocks and mignonette and sweet peas. Mary Gray A Window Box Of perennials select bleeding-hearts, pinks, bluebells, hollyhocks, perennial phlox, perennial hibiscus, wild asters, and goldenrods. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition The following lists of flowers for borders may be suggestive: Perennials.—Bleeding-heart, carnations, chrysanthemums, columbine, coreopsis, dahlias, gaillardias, golden glow, iris, larkspur, oriental poppies, peonies, phlox, pinks, platycodon, snapdragon. Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools Asters, phlox, sweet peas, hollyhocks, all were to bend themselves to my rules. More Jonathan Papers A bird sailed across the strip of blue sky; the stalk of phlox on the soldier's narrow bed lay withering in the light. The Long Roll There were open fireplaces in parlor and sitting-room, and the wide dooryard was divided by a graveled and flower-bordered walk, where in summer bloomed syringas, sweet williams, peonies and phlox. Pocket Island A Story of Country Life in New England There were the sweet mignonette and heliotrope, the pink verbena, and the beautiful white scented verbena, the gay phlox, the pure candytuft, bits of lemon blossoms, and the faithful pansies. The Angel Children or, Stories from Cloud-Land There was a fine array of poppies, larkspurs, phlox and snapdragons; the oleander in its green tub was all a-bloom, and there were six newly opened buds on the rose-bush. Little Maid Marian White phlox I had, and have—an inheritance—which from a few roots is spreading and spreading in waves of whiteness that grow more luxuriant every year. More Jonathan Papers In June it is a hedge of lovely wild roses followed a little later by masses of purple phlox. Green Valley Lovely old-fashioned flowers—pansies and phlox and pinks and balsam were all in their happiest bloom. Suzanna Stirs the Fire Gifford had stepped over the low box border to a stately bunch of milk-white phlox. John Ward, Preacher Each one was certain to bring her something,—a long-stemmed pink, or phlox in a bunch, like a handful of honeycomb. Old Kaskaskia There are phlox seedlings, too, all over the garden, but I have no way of telling what color they are, though usually I can detect the white by its foliage. More Jonathan Papers The air was heavy with the scent of rockets and phlox and ragged pinks and candy-tuft. The Danger Mark For many years, in Austin, we had iris, peonies and phlox in our garden. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Gifford stood in the sunshine, with the roses and the white phlox, and looked after her retreating figure. John Ward, Preacher For years and years she had planted flowers—-tulips and hyacinths and poppies and lilies and gladiolus and larkspur and phlox and ladyslipper—there had always been a riot of color. The Tin Soldier As people drive by I hope they enjoy my phlox. More Jonathan Papers After this the annuals must be depended upon for ground colour, and to supplement the phloxes, gladioli, Dahlias, and the like. The Garden, You, and I In the middle of the summer it was one tangled mass of lilies, delphinium, phlox and gypsophila, their perfume filling the whole garden. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Some white phlox in the girl's bosom glimmered faintly, and its heavy fragrance stole out upon the warm air. John Ward, Preacher March brings forth the lovely hepatica, and wild phlox or sweet william soon follows. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada In the other beds it rises in luxuriant masses, giving background and body with its wonderful deep green foliage, which is greener and thicker than any other phlox I know. More Jonathan Papers Miss Lingard in June Offshoots of these hardy phloxes may be usually obtained by exchange from some friend, as they increase rapidly. The Garden, You, and I The phlox, however, should be taken up and divided every two or three years to obtain the best results. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Gifford felt her excitement and suspense without seeing it, and he began to clip the phlox with a recklessness which would have wrung Dr. Howe's soul. John Ward, Preacher Over across the field, under the low-swaying boughs, showed the old red wall of the tavern, and against it a great mass of blooming phlox, all vague with distance like purple smoke. Pembroke A Novel Ah, well! the phlox has passed now, and its trim green leaves are brown and crackly. More Jonathan Papers No matter in what corner scarlet salvia and vermilion nasturtiums may be planted, they are sure to get in range with the pink verbenas and magenta phlox in a teeth-on-edge way. The Garden, You, and I I would like to ask some one to give his experience in regard to rust on the tiger lily and the phlox. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Where phlox and asters grew, A leafless thornbush stands, And shrubs that never knew Her tender hands.... The Haunted Hour An Anthology In this case, the lack of such green was made up by a waving mass of blooming cardinal phlox, behind which was an orange grove in full bearing. A Little Florida Lady So when my other transplanting grows tiresome, I fall upon my phlox. More Jonathan Papers Watch out and do not put your salvia where it will come in competition with the crimson-hued hardy phlox tribe. The Garden, You, and I Mrs. Sawyer: I think you will find bordeaux mixture is good as anything for the rust on phlox. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 She looked the picture of a fresh June rose as she carried her basket full of August flowers—phloxes and penstemons and a great bunch of late sweet peas. The Man and the Moment The walks are bordered all with box,— Oh! come this way a minute; The snowball-bush, beyond the phlox, Has chippy's nest hid in it. The Nursery, No. 107, November, 1875, Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers The pink phlox had the strength of ten. More Jonathan Papers The fittest had survived, and, among herbaceous things, whatsoever came of seed, self-sown, had reverted nearly to the original type, as in the case of hollyhocks, phlox, and a few common annuals. The Garden, You, and I If you lift some you will find in the middle a woody dry substance absolutely detrimental to a large, healthy growing phlox. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 There, I think, on that lonely grave, Violets spring in the soft May shower; There, in the summer breezes, wave Crimson phlox and moccasin flower. Poems The wild flowers all about were so close to these that all their perfumes blended, and the phlox and pinks could see their own cousins but a few feet away. A Man and a Woman On the other hand, the lavender phlox, which I particularly wanted, was most lovely, but frail. More Jonathan Papers Should be planted in connection with the tall white hardy phlox. The Garden, You, and I The violas—with such a wide range of color—make lovely backgrounds for the later tulips, as also do the creeping phlox and the native lavender blue divaricata phlox. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 He leaned on his elbows, hands clasped, looking out into the sunlight where myriads of brilliant butterflies were fluttering over the carpet of white phlox. The Firing Line Balanced above the phlox, a humming-bird, green-backed and glittering, hung and tasted for a moment, then flashed to where the larkspurs were. A Man and a Woman For this phlox needs almost no care, and will fight grass and weeds for itself. More Jonathan Papers These phloxes are the backbone of the hardy garden from July until frost, while Miss Lingard, a fine white variety, blooms in June to be a setting for the blue larkspurs. The Garden, You, and I Or not wishing so many kinds, one can have flowers all summer by a careful selection of several varieties of iris, peonies and phlox. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Her grandmother's flower-garden had been constantly encroached upon by the turf which surrounded it, until the snowberry bush, the London pride, the tiger-lilies, and the crimson phlox were like a besieged garrison. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches Old-fashioned pink roses, coral carnations, purple stocks, pink pinks, mauve orchids, moss roses, patterned chintz-like phlox. Balloons There are seedlings that I have been saving, over on the edge of the phlox. More Jonathan Papers In my mind I saw the garden we afterward created; with many fruit trees, beds, and winding walks, trellised seats, squares of flaming tulips, phlox, hollyhocks, roses. Lazarre The phlox sent up tiny shoots for new bloom from the base of each leaf, and the second crop of bachelor buttons came along. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 The trail was bordered with young ferns; wild violets lay in beds of purple along the running streams, and the mountain phlox with its kindling buds carpeted the shelving ways under the murmuring pines. The Log School-House on the Columbia He reached an edge of the garden where a thread-like stream trickled under a bank of periwinkle, phlox, and ivy, and on through a little wood of cedars. Lewis Rand My white phlox is really the most distinguished thing in my garden. More Jonathan Papers Close at his left a riotous bloom of phlox clamored red-blue-purple-lavender-pink into his dazzled vision. The White Linen Nurse If we leave bunches of phlox in the same place successive years they become small. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Around it were beds of red phlox, red whortleberry bushes, and wild sunflowers. The Log School-House on the Columbia All have long casement windows, front gardens in which grow stocks and phlox and sunflowers and hollyhocks and roses; and a red-tiled path leads from the front gate to the entrance porch. Septimus Here and there I have let the pink and lavender phlox come in, for they begin to bloom two weeks earlier, when the garden needs color. More Jonathan Papers A few absent-minded praises were given to the phloxes and the begonias. The Mating of Lydia With the phlox we have had more trouble, sometimes in dry seasons not getting the bloom we should, and finally, the last year we were there, losing nearly all the roots we had. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 It was borne on a bier made of poles, and covered with boughs of pine and fir and red mountain phlox. The Log School-House on the Columbia Now, it so happened, that Ruth's "Surprise Collection" turned out to be pansies, asters, phlox and ragged sailors—all posies of bright pink, purple and crimson in various shades. Dew Drops, Vol. 37, No. 15, April 12, 1914 Roses should be freely used, and violets, mignonette, geraniums, and phlox, while the edges of the veranda should have some crotons and ferns in pots. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore In the beds were asters, celosia, balsam, nasturtiums, marigold, zinnia, carnation, schizanthus, sweet peas, dahlias, gladiolus, candytuft, lilies, scabiosa, stocks, salvia, snapdragon, phlox, mignonette, four o'clocks and petunias. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. Watching each day, for the friends I knew would soon be coming, I found the first shoots of the hardy phlox, which I knew to be G. Von Losburg and Miss Lingard. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 A row of deep-thatched white cottages with leaded window-panes opened on to a causeway of stone flags which was bordered with purple phlox and raised above the level of the road. Running Water They told us we were planting too late, but the phlox has buds on it already. The Lilac Girl The phlox itself was staggering with flowers, and all the lupin leaves held round water-drops in the hollows of their five-fingered hands. Us and the Bottleman Perennial phlox is well to put into the garden. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. There were perhaps a dozen plants of phlox, a dozen of belladona delphinium and six baby breath through the middle of the bed, and on each side a row of the intense blue Chinese delphinium. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 "Marigolds and larkspur and mignonette; phlox and lad's love, rosemary, lavender, and verbena, and many another that you'll not guess till the time comes for blossoming." A Spinner in the Sun Beyond the cherry-red phloxes outside it, the ground fell rapidly to the village, rising again beyond the houses to a great stubble field, newly shorn. The Story of Bessie Costrell And phlox—Sally, you must have masses of phlox—and candy-tuft, and mignonette, and sweet alyssum—" "And love-in-a-mist, and forget-me-nots, and sweet peas, and hollyhocks. Strawberry Acres The old-fashioned flowers are lovely—sweet William, phlox, old-fashioned pinks, petunia, verbena, zinnia, marigold, mignonette, and poppy are always dear and sweet. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. On the other hand, phlox set in the spring scarcely ever fails to bloom in the late summer or early fall, and keeps it up until freezing weather. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 You might have done better than bring cartloads of phlox and larkspur a thousand miles. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 Often he had lain awake at night, restless with the memory of heliotrope, and phlox, and mignonette, and afternoons quiet except for the sound of bees. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 One very common flower resembles our cardinal flower, though not of so deep a color, another is very like rocket or phlox, but smaller and of various colors, white, blue and purple. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Candytuft, dwarf phlox, stonecrop, morning glory, saxifrage, bleeding heart, rock cress, myrtle, thrift, columbine, bell flower, and moss pink. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. In this border I have at last found a place for the magenta phlox that usually fights with the whole garden. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 The sun shone brightly, the woods were green, and the meadows were gay with phlox and buttercups. Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, James Russell Lowell, Bayard Taylor A Book for Young Americans The great tall hollyhocks and phlox, the bright orange marigolds and large purple poppies. A Cotswold Village Stones around the peonies, phlox, and hollyhocks raised and manure worked in. At the Foot of the Rainbow There were big sunflowers for the canary bird, tiger lilies and phlox and zinnias and lady's-slippers and portulaca and hollyhocks,—giant hollyhocks. The Song of the Lark This combination pleases the family as well as the phlox. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 But her people thought heaps of her, and spent much money on the biggest tombstone in the cemetery, and planted pinies and purple phlox on her, and went every Sunday to visit her. Laddie; a true blue story The path runs straight between the flowering rows, A moonlit path, hemmed in by beds of bloom, Where phlox and marigolds dispute for room With tall, red dahlias and the briar rose. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass Languidly she looked about her; the clumps of white phlox seemed like bushes spread with linen; a moth ricochetted over them, and right across the garden. Sons and Lovers A little way in the woods they could see the blue columbines and the mountain phlox, pink and red. The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Hardy perennial flowers that do well are peony, phlox, golden glow and bleeding heart. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Then one may sow in freely of easy-growing annuals, as marigolds, China asters, petunias and phloxes, and sweet peas. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) There were, however, many other flowers of the old-fashioned varieties—verbenas sweet-williams, phlox, hollyhocks, mignonette, and the like. Quaint Courtships A few whiffs of the raw, strong scent of phlox invigorated her. Sons and Lovers Glancing at the beautiful orchids, roses, carnations, sweet peas, dianthus, asters, phlox, gladiolus, zinnias, and many other fragrant flowers, we experienced infinitely more subtle modulations of delight than can be easily described. By Water to the Columbian Exposition Important September blooming flowers are phlox, Japanese anemones; perennial asters, or Michaelmas daisy, so-called because they are supposed to be at their best on Michaelmas Day, September 29th; helleniums, helianthus, hardy chrysanthemum, pyrethrum uliginosum, boltonia. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 This phlox propagates readily by seed, and if one does not care to perpetuate the particular variety, he will find much satisfaction in raising seedlings. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) "The roses are at their sweetest now," she said, leading the conversation gently away from the too passionate white phlox, on which the moth was still waving its wings drowsily. Geoffrey Strong It illumined flame-colored verbenas, and tall columns of pink and snowy phloxes, and hedges of August roses, making them radiant as the flowers of a dream. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Butterflies, somewhat lame from a chilly night's repose under the lilac leaves, crawled over and over the white phlox, or took a rheumatic flight toward some sun-warmed shrub. The King in Yellow He knows what it will produce, but why one phlox seed will produce a red blossom and another a white is to him a miracle. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Fertile garden soil of any kind should raise good perennial phlox. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) The moth fluttered off in the gloom; fluttered back, hovered, then settled once more on the milk-white phlox, which glimmered like a fragrant ghost in the half-light. Geoffrey Strong On the window-seat, behind the little curtains, blossomed tall geraniums and phlox, which, through the mesh of the muslin curtains, sent a blissful fragrance through the room. The Path of Life There was a fresh-gathered bunch of wild phlox by Moya's plate in a tumbler printed round the edge with impressions of a large moist male thumb. The Desert and the Sown The phlox and delphinium bloomed again in a little while, and in September the candidum lilies began to come through the ground, getting ready for next year. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Cannas, caladiums, perennial phloxes, chrysanthemums, and verbenas may be taken up, divided, and replanted. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Browning was gone with the phlox and the roses; and what was this coming unbidden into his head, crisp and clean and possessing, like the honeysuckle? Geoffrey Strong She picked the withered leaves from the geraniums, bound the branches of the phlox to the trellis and gave them fresh water from a little flowered can. The Path of Life The seeds, such as stock, nasturtium, linum, phlox, and sweet pea, are doing well in the garden. Three Years in Tristan da Cunha Nothing could be prettier than the Caen bowls with their bunches of purple phlox and spiked blossoms. In and out of Three Normady Inns About these clumps one may plant bulbs of glowing tulips or dainty snowdrops and lilies-of-the-valley; and these may be followed with pansies and phlox and other simple folk. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) I couldn't help laughing a little at that, and you were quite short with me, and told me I that didn't know phlox from flaxseed. Geoffrey Strong The leaves fell from the geraniums and the phlox. The Path of Life What spell dost bear from listening plant to plant, Like some white witch, some ghostly ministrant, Some specter of some perished flower of phlox? Poems It always reminds the observer of the color of the species to which the variety belongs, being bluish in violets and harebells, reddish in godetias and phloxes, in Silene Armeria and many others. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation If you do not like the bare earth between them, sow in the seeds of hardy annual flowers, like phlox, petunia, alyssum, and pinks. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Roses, violets, honeysuckle, pansies, cosmos, phlox, balsams, sunflowers, zinnias, blue Michaelmas daisies, dianthus, nasturtiums, &c., are on common ground with purely tropical plants, while ageratum has become a pestiferous weed. My Tropic Isle At first sight only these radiant crystals are likely to be noticed, but looking closely you discover a multitude of very small gilias, phloxes, mimulus, etc., many of them with more petals than leaves. The Yosemite Mary Rafferty kept her yard aglow with phlox, verbenas and pansies, and revelled in vines and flowering shrubs. The City of Fire There was the less formal phlox of a pinkish purple; deer's-tongue, white and yellow; frail anemones, both pink and white; small but stately violets, and the wake-robin with its wine-red centre among long green leaves. The Boss of Little Arcady Some familiar examples of hardy annuals are sweet alyssum, ageratum, calendula, calliopsis, candytuft, Centaurea Cyanus, clarkia, larkspur, gilia, California poppy, morning-glory, marigold, mignonette, nemophila, pansy, phlox, pinks, poppies, portulaca, zinnia, sweet pea, scabiosa. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Like the rye-field, I found the so-called desert of Mono blooming in a high state of natural cultivation with the wild rose, cherry, aster, and the delicate abronia; also innumerable gilias, phloxes, poppies, and bush-compositae. The Mountains of California We counted forty-two different specimens; those yellow orchids you are so proud of at home, also red tiger-lilies, phloxes, and endless other varieties. A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba This is phlox," said Susie, leading Uncle Robert by the hand; "and marigolds are here, and sweet peas over there by the fence. Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3) Snowy oleanders, yellow asters, and purple phlox crowded together in a space no larger than Miss Hazy's front yard. Lovey Mary In recent years the perennial phlox has been much improved, and it now constitutes one of the best of all flower-garden subjects. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) Even the tops of the mountains are blessed with flowers,—dwarf phlox, polemonium, ribes, hulsea, etc. The Mountains of California There never were more joyous dahlias and phlox and china asters than we saw coming back from that training camp where men were learning the big death game. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me A bullet instantly laid her low among her phloxes and lilies; and there, in her little garden, her dead body was dishonoured. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort These phlox are Methodist, too; no set color, easy to grow, hardy an' vigorous. Lovey Mary Petunias, phloxes, and many annuals make good window plants. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) He smelled the scents of autumn, phlox and moist old vegetation and corn in sheaf. Aaron's Rod Around the walls were shrubs and splashed about the walks and near the fountain were gorgeous dabs of colour, phlox and asters, and dahlias and hollyhocks and flowers of various gay sorts. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me The dahlias bleed and the phlox is seed, Nothing's left of the clover, And the path of the poppy no one knows,— I would blossom if I were a rose! The Lamp and the Bell European cultivators claim that the most brilliant colors are obtained by crossing annual with perennial phloxes. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors I wish I knew where her grave is that I might lay upon it a bunch of flowers, such as she knew and liked—sweet-william, and phlox, and larkspur, and wild columbine. Back Home Down this side of the gravel-walk She went while her robe's edge brushed the box: And here she paused in her gracious talk To point me a moth on the milk-white phlox. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 And this strange picture of love and death sitting together some way reminded us of the phlox and the dahlias blooming in the dreary dooryards of the shattered homes near the battle line. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me One venturesome little phlox dared the cold winds, and popped up his audacious head, but his pale, puny face shows how near he is to being frozen to death. Gala-days Butterflies, for whom phloxes have narrowed their tubes to the exclusion of most other insects, are their benefactors; but long-tongued bees and flies often seek their nectar. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors But on the first night of Anthony's occupancy of his new house Doyle shot himself beside the stable, where a few stalks of white phlox had survived the building operations. A Poor Wise Man He was afraid the Indians would step on the poppies and the phlox, and trample down the four o'clocks which were just beginning to branch out and look nice and bushy, and to blossom. Cow-Country On the veranda, with the heavy scent of phlox at night permeating the still air, Sara Lee made her confession. The Amazing Interlude Amaryllis, water-lilies, reeds, and phloxes decorated the banks with their glorious tapestry. The Lily of the Valley He saw the little grocer lying stark and huddled among the phlox by the stable, and the group of men that stooped over him. A Poor Wise Man "He'll get me yet," he would mutter, standing among the white phlox of his little back garden. A Poor Wise Man |
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