love-lies-bleeding

“A garden, at one end of the house, was red with love-lies-bleeding and coxcombs, their deep hues contrasting with great clumps of marigolds and bachelor's-buttons, all claiming a preemption right over innumerable weeds and any amount of ribbon grass, that struggled hard to drive them out.”

The Old Homestead

“You know 'love-lies-bleeding' is a flower, but it sounds allegorical the way I have put it in.”

Turn About Eleanor

“In a moment he was gone, past the portulaca and love-lies-bleeding, past”

Wild Wings A Romance of Youth

“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

“There were hollyhocks, and noonsleeps, and tiger-lilies, and little patches of moss pinks, the tiny flowers all tangled in with their green foliage, and sweet williams, and love-lies-bleeding; and the children thought there was never such another garden in the world.”

Frank and Fanny

“Pinks and columbines, mullein and Canterbury bells, the burning blue of lupin and larkspur, the magenta plush tassels of love-lies-bleeding, the streaked and goffered rosettes of the French marigolds – they have about them the harmonious confusion, the riotous immobility of a crowd of stage peasantry during the principals 'duet.”

Try Anything Twice

“If only they wouldn't turn snapdragons into antirrhinums, love-lies-bleeding into amaranthus, and red-hot-pokers into kniphofias ....”

Try Anything Twice

“Give me yon spray of love-lies-bleeding," she said; then as it rested against the lily in her hand, "Wounds may be cured," she said.”

Sir Mortimer

“I have been growing it for years as an ornamental, especially the cultivar love-lies-bleeding.”

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