linaria

Plant pansies and other cool season annuals such as linaria.

March Gardening « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

"Esoula nil nobis, sed dat linaria _taurum_," implying that the herb was of old valued for its good effects when applied externally to piles as an ointment, a fomentation, or a poultice, each being made from the leaves and the flowers.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

I had reached this church by an old archway, whose origin was evidently defensive, and crossing the dim and silent square, surrounded by mediaeval houses, some half ruinous, and all more or less adorned with pellitory, ivy-linaria, and other wall-plants which had fixed their roots between the gaping stones.

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

The old walls of Figeac are likewise tapestried with pellitory and ivy-linaria, with here and there a fern pushing its deep-green frond farther into the shadow, or an orpine sedum lifting its head of purple flowers into the sunshine that changes it to a flame.

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

One little garden linaria, at first employed as an ornament for hanging-baskets, has become so common on old walls and banks as to be now considered a mere weed, and exterminated accordingly by fashionable gardeners.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

Flowering plants include centaurea, cranesbills, linaria, knautia and sanguisorba - all hand-mixed and hand-sown.

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