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  • noun Plural form of phlox.

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Examples

  • There are also some woodland phloxes available that take shade and are very fragrant.

    There’s nothing lowly about the beautiful creeping phlox « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog 2009

  • For all ornament, the quaint cottage was covered with jessamine and honeysuckle and climbing hops, and the garden about it was gay with phloxes and tall, juicy-leaved plants.

    Eve and David 2007

  • For all ornament, the quaint cottage was covered with jessamine and honeysuckle and climbing hops, and the garden about it was gay with phloxes and tall, juicy-leaved plants.

    Eve and David 2007

  • And I've got lots of pictures of frosted phloxes (phloxi?), so I guess it's not that hard to pick out a good one or two.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2005

  • Like a hallucination, painfully clear, he saw again their home as he had imagined it; he saw their garden, and Elizabeth feeding Nero and the pigeons on the drive by the sulphur-yellow phloxes that grew as high as her shoulder; and the drawing-room, with the water-colours on the walls, and the balsams in the china bowl mirrored by the table, and the book-shelves, and the black piano.

    Burmese Days 2002

  • The first afternoon we were up here we went for a ride round Imogene basin, and were delighted with the wild flowers, which are quite innumerable -- columbine, phloxes, blue gentian, dandelions, harebells, vetches, and fifty other species.

    A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall

  • Crimson phloxes, waxen lilies, roses laden with perfume.

    Poems Teachers Ask For, Book Two Various

  • It should be so planted that its densely-branched stems can fall over the face of a light-coloured stone; in this respect it forms a good companion to the dwarf phloxes, but it is otherwise a superior rock plant, being more characteristic and prolonged in its flowering.

    Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

  • It illumined flame-colored verbenas, and tall columns of pink and snowy phloxes, and hedges of August roses, making them radiant as the flowers of a dream.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics Various

  • We counted forty-two different specimens; those yellow orchids you are so proud of at home, also red tiger-lilies, phloxes, and endless other varieties.

    A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall

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