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Example sentences for "larkspurs"

Lexicographically close words:
laridon; lark; larking; larks; larkspur; larky; larly; larmes; larn; larned
  1. Some of the larkspurs and the browallias are perhaps the nearest approach to them.

  2. How beautiful was the firelight on the nearest larkspurs and geraniums and daisies of our garden!

  3. Larkspurs are common, with epilobium, senecio, erigeron, and a few solidagos.

  4. When I saw the Larkspurs in flower they were certainly the loveliest things that one could see.

  5. One of the prettiest effects which I have ever seen among naturalised plants was a colony of tall Larkspurs (Delphiniums).

  6. As cut-flowers they are excellent, a large bowl of them glowing like a golden ball, especially if they are emphasized by a few blue larkspurs or bachelor's buttons.

  7. The Larkspurs are among the very best hardy plants, being free-flowering and having a good habit.

  8. The larkspurs are a source of heavy loss to cattle owners in the higher ranges of the West.

  9. It shimmered and clustered in a visionary space between the tree and the border of blue larkspurs on the other side of the lawn.

  10. A day flashed out of her memory on a trail of blue larkspurs and of something that she had forgotten, something that was mixed up with Mr. and Mrs. Jervis and Rosalind.

  11. Larkspurs in the botany are blue, but if you were to slip rein to the stub of some black sage and set about proving it you would be still at it by the hour when the white gilias set their pale disks to the westering sun.

  12. The larkspurs make the best showing, being tall and sweet, swaying a little above the shrubbery, scattering pollen dust which Navajo brides gather to fill their marriage baskets.

  13. Common annual Larkspurs now are planted in every one's garden, and deservedly grow in favor yearly.

  14. Violets appeared along the edges of the trail, and the chaparral was coming into bloom, with young lilies and larkspurs about the open places in rich profusion.

  15. The larkspurs are of easy cultivation, either in beds or herbaceous borders; the soil should be deeply dug and manured.

  16. But the larkspurs said I wouldn't marry you, Captain Dick Stanchon!

  17. Rhoda," says she, of a sudden, "what if we tried the larkspurs again?

  18. The larkspurs have different roots and more underground vigour, and all tap-rooted herbs hold their own well, the difficulty being to curb their spreading and undermining their border companions.

  19. Do peonies blush as deep with pride, The larkspurs burn as bright a blue, And velvet pansies stare as wide I wonder, as they used to do?

  20. Just behind me the border of rockets and larkspurs came to an end, and, turning my head to watch a stealthy cat, my face brushed against a wet truss of blossom and got its first morning washing.

  21. Columbine grows on the drier margins with tall larkspurs and lupines waist-deep in grasses and sedges; several species of castilleia also make a bright show in beds of blue and white violets and daisies.

  22. Here, Maisie said, there should be great clumps of larkspurs and there a lavender hedge.

  23. I wonder what would happen if I sat on my window-sill and played Ravel to the larkspurs and the stars!

  24. There wasn't a leaf stirring, and not a sound except that lapping water against the bottom of the wall where the larkspurs are.

  25. The Oberforsterei is a low white house with a clearing round it in which potatoes have been planted, and a meadow at the back going down to a stream, and a garden in front behind a low paling, full of pinks and larkspurs and pansies.

  26. In ‘The English Flower Garden’ Mr. Robinson says that ‘the annual Larkspurs are so little used in gardens that it is only in seed-farms that we have the pleasure of seeing them now and then in all their beauty.

  27. The 1st of May or a little later Honeysuckles, Phlox, Snapdragon, Zinnias, and annual Larkspurs appear.

  28. The winter temperature is often ten degrees below, and the tender plants, like Foxglove and Pansies, are more safely wintered under slat-frames covered with straw, and Larkspurs should have a light covering of leaves.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "larkspurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.