单词 | portulaca |
例句 | He liked rarities such as the connoisseur’s rambling rose, Aviateur Bleriot, but he saw the same regal presence in a humble nasturtium or that fleshy summer annual no longer in vogue, portulaca. It’s never easy to say goodbye, but it’s time for me to plant some trees 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Annuals that have been sown in the greenhouse or hotbed may be planted out, and seeds of such sorts as mignonette, sweet alyssum, Phlox Drummondii, portulaca, &c., may be sown in the beds or borders. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z The same is true with dahlias, zinnias, lilies, gladioli, pinks, and portulacas. Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things 2012-02-24T03:00:23.760Z The wild portulaca is very abundant, and in seasons favorable to its development is a very noticeable little plant. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z She leaned over the porch railing and stared down into the bed of gay portulaca that Grandmother tended with such care both night and morning. Black-Eyed Susan 2012-02-13T03:00:16.587Z "Why," said the Reverend James, peering quizzically over the rim of his spectacles at the open window, "why, I thought I planted portulaca seed." A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z I mean, the portulaca and heliotrope and other old-fashioned plants she dug up for me. Natalie: A Garden Scout 2011-09-18T02:00:30.203Z These butterflies lay eggs for a summer brood of caterpillars which may feed upon the leaves of violets, May apples, portulaca, and stonecrop. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z In one hand she carries a pair of garden shears with handles painted scarlet; in the other, a bright spray of portulaca; while over her wrist is slung a garden hat. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z Old-fashioned portulaca makes a pretty low-growing green for a fern dish. The Kitchen Encyclopedia Twelfth Edition (Swift & Company) It was then that K'dunk the Fat One came back to the portulaca bed. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z No; what I want is a bed of portulaca, and some cypress vines running up strings to the top of a pole. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 In the garden the claret-colored dahlias hung down their tight, uncomfortable flowers; geraniums, portulacas, nasturtiums, sunflowers and red-hot pokers burned in one furnace of bloom. Carnival Oh, are you going to look at the portulaca? Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z There was a small artificial mound of stones at one side of the house, with a somewhat scanty growth of portulaca springing from its top. McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 It was Roddy's fancy, too, to cover this grave with portulaca—a little plant bearing starry flowers of vivid hues that live for a day only. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa For, as we all know, there is absolutely no color, except green, that portulaca does not perpetrate in its blossoms. More Jonathan Papers There are three varieties of flowers in it--nasturtiums, portulacas, and bright red geraniums. Modern American Prose Selections The portulaca blooms so brightly on his grave. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z By the porch a damask rose-bush was in bloom, and the fragrance followed him along the path between the borders of portulaca. The Miller Of Old Church "But the grave we covered with portulaca—" She stopped abruptly, for the boy's face had assumed the look she could not bear—the look of enduring that only those hardened to life should know. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa They do not belong to the grovelling tribe of herbs that bend and refuse to break like portulaca, chickweed, and pusley the accursed. The Garden, You, and I The portulacas grow around the border, then come the nasturtiums, and finally the taller geraniums in the centre. Modern American Prose Selections The afternoon wore on; the soft golden light on the pavement was dappled with shadows; and the wind, blowing over the iron urns in the yard, scattered the withered leaves of portulaca over the grass. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Then lifting her trowel, she returned with a sigh to the sowing of portulaca seeds in her rockery. The Miller Of Old Church The ground plants are the portulacas, turneras, and cenotheras, bitter and ephemeral, on the bare rock, and almost independent of any other moisture than the heavy dews. Darwinism (1889) And while we're on the letter 'P' in the seed catalogue," added Mr. Emerson, "order a few packages of single portulaca. Ethel Morton's Enterprise Later in the day I told her who had called and how much Mrs. M. and the young ladies admired her flowers, especially the portulacas. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss Crossing Broad Street, which wore its look of Sabbath sleepiness, Gabriella hurried on to Hill Street, and saw George waiting for her between the two green-painted urns filled with the summer's fading bloom of portulaca. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Beneath it Sarah Revercomb was sowing portulaca seeds in a rockery she had made over a decaying stump. The Miller Of Old Church In a moment he was gone, past the portulaca and love-lies-bleeding, past Cousin Emma's unlit parlor windows, down the walk between the tiger lilies and peonies, out into the street. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth The sides are yellow as marigold, The port-lids are red when the ports are up: Blood-red squares like an even chequer Of yellow asters and portulaca. Men, Women and Ghosts 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 "I use portulaca powder and tiger lily bullets on the tigers, and four o'clocks on the lions," I said. Laddie; a true blue story 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) 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 Abundance of portulaca grew near our halting place, and furnished us with an agreeable vegetable; this plant was afterwards found over the whole of Northern Australia, and proved a very valuable article of food. Journals of Australian Explorations In the spaces between ran a riot of portulaca and nasturtiums, while in the more regular, shell-bordered beds grew spirea and gillyflowers, mignonette, marigolds, and clove pinks. New Chronicles of Rebecca I went into the garden and gathered every ripe touch-me-not pod I could find, and all the portulaca. Laddie; a true blue story Then there are to be eschscholtzias, dahlias, sunflowers, zinnias, scabiosa, portulaca, yellow violas, yellow stocks, yellow sweet-peas, yellow lupins—everything that is yellow or that has a yellow variety. Elizabeth and Her German Garden |
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