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Primrose, sunflowers, sand verbena, and a number of others we cannot yet identify have exploded upon the sand dunes.
Coming back we crossed a vast expanse of low, sandy hummocks covered with sand verbena.
We planted verbena around our crape myrtle, and it has gone wild, spilling over the edges of the concrete border.
Only then did they turn to color, using purples like heliotrope and verbena to complement the flax, and soft apricots for gentle contrast.
Red dianthus and trailing verbena are spectacular in window boxes that can take our Florida sun and heat.
The severe summer drought got to the lemon verbena long before my silver maples started shedding leaves in stress.
Our yard is warm and sunny for most of the day in summer, making it an ideal spot for plants such as pelargoniums and verbena.
Annuals with good deer resistance include ageratum, ice plant, pincushion flower, verbena and zinnias.
For blue choose from gentian sage, lobelia, mealycup sage, nemesia, petunia, or verbena.
You can keep your lemon verbena as a pot plant and move it indoors before frost.
Tuck summer bloomers like purple verbena, yellow daisylike helianthus, purple coneflower, and coreopsis behind it.
Lemon verbena is used in teas, flavorings, fragrances, antispasmodics, carminatives, sedatives, and stomachics.
This variety of verbena grows upright, and has massed heads of small round-topped flowers.
Lemon verbena is also useful for topiary work, making nice large standards.
If you're into herb teas German chamomile, lemon verbena and sage are sunny stalwarts.
Try herbs such as chamomile, mint, marjoram, lemon verbena, or scented geraniums.
Asters, butterfly weed, Coreopsis, fleabane, Jupiter's-beard, Lantana, lavender, Sedum, verbena, and yarrow all thrive on dry, sunny sites.
The Brombals have also grown artichokes, arugula, chard, and lots of herbs, including basil, chives, and lemon verbena.
Being a deciduous shrub, lemon verbena will drop its leaves for a few months during the winter.
Some of the ones that are especially good for skin are rose, lemon verbena, rosemary, geranium, clary sage, and chamomile.
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Geraniol by oxidation goes into the aldehyde, citral, which occurs in lemons, oranges and verbena flowers.
The garden was all ablaze with geranium and verbena, heliotrope and larkspur.
The plants when they are crushed give out a rather heavy smell of sage, with a dash of lemon verbena.
He laid the verbena and geranium on her lap, and she took them up mechanically.
The leaves of the plant emit a strong odor when rubbed, likened to that of the lemon verbena.
This was money enough to buy seeds of ageratum, zinnia, dwarf nasturtium, California poppy and verbena besides some others.
His chapters on verbena and Artemisia reflect clearly the independence of his thought.
Take cuttings of new shoots of tender plants, including diascia, fuchsia, pelargonium and verbena.
The cruelty-free body butters are available in four scent varieties, vanilla, lavender, lemon verbena and pomegranate.
The smell of blood delighted him more than frankincense or verbena.
This he would eat as he lay in a hot bath full of verbena salts.
Robert took out a little sprig of verbena, which he gave to Dorothea.
What, not if I did my eyes with that Euphrasia and verbena officinalis?
The verbena is one of the most satisfactory garden plants, blooming early.
Others to sow now are dahlias, busy lizzies, antirrhinums, salvias, rudbeckias, verbena, calceolarias and geraniums.
You were picking a spray of lemon verbena to take to church.
Its leaves are almost as fragrant as are those of our lemon verbena.
The green leaves when young are nearly as fragrant as the lemon verbena.
For the green have mint leaves, lemon verbena or geranium leaves or ferns.
For mint, lemon verbena, coriander, or tarragon, put a plastic bag loosely over the bouquet, secure it to the mouth of the jar with a rubber band, and refrigerate.
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