Even in the really bright pink flowers such as rosebay willowherb, blue sneaks in to add a trace of purple as it does in wild thyme and centaury. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the exposed plantation known as Sentry Hill Wood, beech leaves are brown and the patch of Lloyd George's ground left as downland when a tax was imposed on reclamation is covered in rank bracken and bedraggled rosebay willowherb interspersed with gorse, rowan, willow and oak. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Now is the time for the towering spikes of purple foxgloves and pink rosebay willow-herb. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Hence why, 12 hours later, I'm learning to pick nettles, hogweed, and rosebay willowherbs in a thicket on Hampstead Heath. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In the waste ground by the edge of Hollingside wood tall spikes of rosebay willowherb, tipped with the last of their purple flowers, were releasing their downy seeds. ❋ Unknown (2011)
As I understand it, there is a native species of rosebay willowherb and a North American species. ❋ Carla (2008)
Hearty yellow-flowered gorse poked through those sweeping fans as though caring little for the prerogatives of royalty, and rosebay crept up the border of the planting in low growing mats. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (1988)
Hornfel touched a finger to one of the rosebay™s delicate flowers. ❋ Berberick, Nancy Varian (1988)
Vegetables and fruit-trees were flanked by herbaceous borders running down to a tarred fence at the end, where a curtain of giant convolvulus, drooping over a mass of mallow and foxglove, borage and rosebay willow-herb, suggested that Miss Barnslow had not yet got round to the task of civilizing this corner of the estate. ❋ Carr, John Dickson (1984)
What more gratifying to the eye of the wanderer than the luxuriant vegetation and lavish profusion of the gorgeous flowers upon the mountain slopes, radiant rhododendron, rosebay, and laurel, and the azalea rising like flame; or the rare beauties of the water -- the cataract of Linville, taking its shimmering leap into the gorge, and that romantic river poetically celebrated in the lines: ❋ Archibald Henderson (1920)
That rosebay is the most graceful shrub in the yard. ❋ Olive Tilford Dargan (1918)
In July and August the glades of the Abinger woods, like the woods about Byfleet and Woking, gleam with the pinks and purples of rosebay. ❋ Eric Parker (1912)
Here, too, were masses of evergreen, and red-pointed mosses, and the azaleas again along the border of streamlets, and purple rosebay and the tall grasses in the clearings, in whose midst nestled timorously tiny white blossoms and ground berries. ❋ Unknown (1875)
In the valleys we saw the laurel and the dwarf rosebay, the ❋ Unknown (1875)
Rhododendron maximum, L. Mountain laurel; wild rosebay. ❋ Unknown (1863)
But here in the Water Gap it was not without some of its accustomed brightness of tints -- the sugar-maple with its golden leaves, and the water-maple with its foliage of scarlet, contrasted with the intense green of the hemlock-fir, the pine, the rosebay-laurel, and the mountain-laurel, which here grow in the same thicket, while the ground below was carpeted with humbler evergreens, the aromatic wintergreen, and the trailing arbutus. ❋ William Cullen Bryant (1836)
It's written by a British guy, so it leans toward the weeds that plague that island nation -- specimens like Japanese knotweed and rosebay willowherb known more commonly here as fireweed. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Abbott Lowell, the former president of Harvard University, who bequeathed the property to the Trustees of the Reservation in 1942, had embellished the old-growth forest with plantings of rosebay, mountain laurel and catawba rhododendron. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The road and footpath are separated by a bank of tall weeds, consisting mainly of rosebay willowherb. ❋ Unknown (2008)
