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Started knot garden last spring-will finish this Spring fingers crossedHave obelisk in center with heliotrope and Black Knight Scabiosa around it in Spring.
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Residing here for a couple of years but rarely mentioned is Scabiosa columbaria ‘Butterfly Blue’.
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Larger pots hold Gomphrena ‘Qis Carmine’, Stipa gigantea in the first row, Vernonia and Scabiosa have not yet germinated at each end of this row.
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Use yellow Helenium autumnale, in combination with a DRIFT of Helenium 'Moerheim Beauty' and black Scabiosa, black pincushion flower.
Archive 2008-08-01 Pooky 2008
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And I think this was the perennial plant flower of the year of 2002, pincushion, Scabiosa (ph).
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Steinheil has recorded an instance in _Scabiosa atropurpurea_ in which one of the stem leaves presented the following peculiarities.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Moquin-Tandon mentions as subject to this anomaly species of _Galeopsis_, _Prunella_, _Scabiosa_, and
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Alexander the Great built, near the ancient town of Myriandros, a city called after him Alexandria Minor (or ad Issum, more frequently Scabiosa, i.e. mountainous).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The hen-and-chicken type occurs even in other families and is known to produce most curious anomalies, as with _Scabiosa_, the supernumerary heads of which may be produced on long stalks and become branched themselves in the same manner.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Scabiosa, often known as "Mourning Bride," is an excellent plant for vase-use, and deserves more attention than it has heretofore enjoyed.
Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover 1882
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