At large in the unsustaining air, flew clear over the lawn across the breadth of the garden and fell, Icarian, dazed, among hollyhocks, snapdragons, love-in-a-mist, and stood up uninjured, ready to swing and fly over and over. ❋ Tanita Davis (2008)
And what better place to fall dazed than love-in-a-mist? ❋ Tanita Davis (2008)
The love-in-a-mist however is all over buds and I'm very excited every morning, hoping that one of them will have finally opened. ❋ Dame_habonde (2006)
I have lots of nigella love-in-a-mist growing in my garden, and keep thinking I should harvest it, but the seed pods look so pretty as is, and besides it's so easy to just buy it from the indian store. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Nigella The small, black, angular seed of Nigella sativa, a close Eurasian relative of the common ornamental plant love-in-a-mist, tastes like a milder, more complex version of thyme or oregano, with a hint of caraway. ❋ Harold McGee (2004)
I have planted bulbs of a Mentone creeper, love-in-a-mist, heather, sweet peas and canna seeds. ❋ Katherine Mary Barrow (N/A)
It was a long walk up to the Schatz Alp; there were paths where the pine-trees met overhead, garlanded with wreaths of snow, and the spaces between the wreaths were as blue as love-in-a-mist, an old-fashioned flower that grows in English gardens. ❋ Phyllis Bottome (1923)
There are few blue flowers, and most of them are small and fragile, like love-in-a-mist and speedwell. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Then an idea struck her, so glorious, that she put the uprooted love-in-a-mist in the weed-basket, instead of planting it again, and went quickly indoors, up to the attics, and from there popped -- really popped, so tight was the fit -- through a trap-door on to the roof. ❋ Unknown (1903)
I was once talking to a lady who had just come over from China, and who wore a dress of soft figured silk of the most perfect love-in-a-mist colour-shade which I had ever seen, even in turning over the wonder-drawers at Liberty's. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
The fig-trees and vines above the growing crops were almost at a full leafiness; scarlet poppies grew thick among the corn; and at the dusty edges of the road, wild roses of a colour singularly vivid and deep, the blue flowers of love-in-a-mist, and some spikes of wine-coloured gladiolus struck strangely on a northern eye. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
Milk-worts of all bright and tender tints combined with borage, iris, hawkweeds, harebells, crimson clover, thyme, red snapdragon, golden asters, and dreamy love-in-a-mist, to weave a marvellous carpet such as the looms of Shiraz or of Cashmere never spread. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
Milk-worts of all bright and tender tints combined with borage, iris, hawkweeds, harebells, crimson clover, thyme, red snap-dragon, golden asters, and dreamy love-in-a-mist, to weave a marvellous carpet such as the looms of ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
The frozen soil here has prevented me digging up seedlings to transplant, but today we filled a sack with compost so I'll still see the pot marigolds, love-in-a-mist, feverfew and opium poppies that would rule this garden without constant weeding. ❋ Unknown (2011)
June passed and July flamed through the borders - sweet rocket, verbena, nicotiana, poppies, lupins, love-in-a-mist - she began finally to feel equipped to tackle what had to be done in the house, what should have been tackled some time ago. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We went for larkspur, delphinium, foxglove and peonies to fill a circle of hanging globes, but most of the flowers were simple - cornflowers, poppies, love-in-a-mist, even docks, grasses and oats picked from the fields of a friendly neighbouring farmer. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Then add the flowers, threading them through the foliage structure - larkspur, love-in-a-mist, cornflowers and opium poppies, whatever cornfield weed you fancy, a randomly placed sprinkling of each. ❋ Unknown (2010)
