| A fine color is obtained by previously washing the alkanet with water and then thoroughly drying it before suspending it in the fat or oil. |
| Other plants are skin irritants, sun or not – alkanet, comfrey, nettles being the most obvious. |
| She might have finished the look with saffron eye shadow and lip balm tinted with ocher and alkanet root. |
| When I first saw the alkanet flowers their startling blue mirrored the intensity of the sky. |
| The green alkanet is in flower along the hedge that catches the morning light and gives shelter from the rain. |
| The two British Alkanets are interesting plants, though not very common. |
