How To Use Heliotrope In A Sentence
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In one year, 50,000 scarlet pelargoniums were planted, and in 1854, the collections of calceolarias, lobelias, petunias, verbenas, gaultherias, alyssums, nemophilas, salvias, heliotropes, dwarf rhododendrons and azaleas, displays which influenced exhibitions across the rest of the country.
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I would create the smell of purity", he says, but instead of choosing predictable "pure" acquatic or ozonic notes, the perfumer opts for the ingredients that would evoke "the color white": "I would use powdery floral notes such as heliotrope, but it would also be spicy, and have iris, also violets and woods.
Archive 2007-08-01
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The small aromatic flower which we call heliotrope, with its violet hue and delightful perfume, more nearly answers the description.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
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An earlier version of the heliograph known as the heliotrope was used during the American civil war.
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The purple-brown spots and smears, called heliotrope, on her eyelids.
Cynical Dad
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Surround a garden bench with heliotrope or aromatic foliage plants like scented geraniums.
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Deborah and I are very fond of it "-- here she sighed --" but for certain reasons -- reasons you would not understand -- we do not like to hear the word heliotrope mentioned.
Scottish Ghost Stories
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But I was tired and couldn't be sure I actually recalled stampeding giraffes, falling heliotropes, bloodstone storms, an old child with no eyes, wrapped in waves; I couldn't; and you had dropped like a minnow of a brittle star into my flat trap of a lap, my darling sour ancient fish.
Minnows
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Mrs. Chilton stood on the steps, exchanging smiles and polite nothings, and, as one of the party requested permission to break a sprig of geranium growing near, she gracefully offered to collect a bouquet, adding, as she severed some elegant clusters of heliotrope and jasmine:
Beulah
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Few insects can compare with it in beauty, as it hovers over the flowers of the heliotrope, which furnish the favourite food of the perfect fly, although the caterpillar feeds on the aristolochia and the _betel leaf_, and suspends its chrysalis from its drooping tendrils.
Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon
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Local riverside walks have shown daisies growing, along with winter heliotrope often found near streams.
Country diary: Yeo Valley, Somerset
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Heliotrope is never invasive, so it can be grown in patio containers where vinca, dusty miller, or marigolds make attractive companions for its delicate flowers.
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Moist forest is dominated by single or mixed species stands of Pisonia grandis up to 25 meters (m) high, Cordia subcordata, or Heliotrope (Tournefortia argentea) with areas of Scaevola taccada and Morinda citrifolia scrub, usually near forest edges.
Western Polynesian tropical moist forests
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It was marked out by something called heliotrope cyanosis.
American Chronicle
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Cooling fountains mask traffic noise, while hummingbirds and butterflies explore the charms of tuberoses, heliotrope, and other plants chosen for their sensual appeal.
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Tried and true varieties include Gerbera daisy, pink and purple wave petunia, begonias, Calla lilies, fragrant heliotrope and stock.
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There are trees of millefleur roses; heliotrope and honeysuckle cover every pillar, and yellow jasmine trails over everything ....
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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A member of the borage family, common heliotrope is one of about 250 Heliotropium species, but it is the only one widely grown in gardens.
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They are minute jasperous formations, independent of the inclosing mass; and, from their resemblance to streaks and spots of blood, suggest the name by which the heliotrope is popularly known.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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_In the light_, I have seen a luminous cloud hover over a heliotrope on a side-table, break a sprig off, and carry it to a lady; and on some occasions I have seen a similar luminous cloud condense to the form of a hand and carry small objects about.
The Shadow World
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The carriage looks so funny behind, there is a cake box with doughnuts and et ceteras tied on behind, wreathed with red peppers and just on the other side is a box with Mother's Grand duke jessamine, a cutting from my "Valeria" and several heliotrope and cactus cuttings and one little violet, all living finely.
Diary, August 8, 1859-May 15, 1865.
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In 1869 chemists discovered heliotropin, which has an almond-suffused scent reminiscent of the heliotrope flowers.
Times, Sunday Times
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-- Border, Oxalis tropæoloides; center, blue heliotrope, blue ageratum, or Acalypha marginata; cross about the center, Thymus argenteus, or centaurea; scallop outside the cross, blue lobelia; corners, inside border, santolina.
Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
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At the same time, a drought affected the area, and heliotrope had time to grow and go to seed.
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A bosquet of climbing heliotrope close by threw a fragrance into the evening air, which turned her giddy with its overpowering sweetness.
The Elusive Pimpernel
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It is very perfumey at first: violet accord that is both powdery like orris and wet and woody like cassie underlined by noticeable dosage of heliotropin - that vanillic molecule that makes heliotrope smells so sweet, almondy and plasticky all at once.
Archive 2009-01-01
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For cooler colors, set purple fountain grass in the middle of a 24-inch-wide pot and surround it with ‘Blue Pearl’ annual vinca, purple heliotrope, and variegated Plectranthus.
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Page: 33 over roof tops into plum-violet, heliotrope, with threads of reseda and cinnamon brown.
Two Selves
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Cannas, chrysan-themums, dahlias, begonias and cosmos have all done well but the Impatiens grew too leggy and nibbling by rabbits has stunted the growth of heliotrope, Helichrysum and Nicotiana.
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In fact, some are already blooming, such as my lavender and white penstemons, the dazzling pink and scarlet dianthus, and fragrant navy blue heliotrope.
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A member of the borage family, common heliotrope is one of about 250 Heliotropium species, but it is the only one widely grown in gardens.
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When I looked around our little church, where a literal Scriptural quorum of two or three was gathered together, my eye was gladdened by the sight of a charming new suit of reseda cloth with a heliotrope toque!
A Woman Rice Planter
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She inhaled the scents of dust, orange oil, and the perfume the heliotropes sent throughout the room.
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Bedding or wax begonias, heliotrope, impatiens, and Madagascar periwinkle can be moved indoors and grown as house plants over the winter.
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Both the vibrant colors and the nectar supply of the heliotrope are excellent attractants for the butterfly.
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The lush, fragrant flowers of the heliotrope range from dark violet to white in color.
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I saw a picture in a book last fall of someone in California who had grown a heliotrope plant for several years and pruned it as a standard.
2009 March « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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Upon his death, the collection was purchased, and the first 3 Russian specimens (quartz variety heliotrope, ‘Siberia’; malachite, ‘Ural Mountains’; and lazurite, ‘Siberia’) were added to the permanent collection.
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He goes on to state: In the light, I have seen a luminous cloud hover over a heliotrope on a side table, break a sprig off, and carry a sprig to a lady.
Experiencing the Next World Now
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Cooling fountains mask traffic noise, while hummingbirds and butterflies explore the charms of tuberoses, heliotrope, and other plants chosen for their sensual appeal.
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City, green giant heliotrope of hoop skirt, one helluva azimuth shadow, solar eclipse.
Peter Graves Is A Mad, Mad March Blimp Captain
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Surround a garden bench with heliotrope or aromatic foliage plants like scented geraniums.
