NOUN
- widespread genus of herbs or softwood arborescent shrubs cultivated for their showy flowers
How To Use Lavatera In A Sentence
- Treat it the same way as the lavatera and it will produce masses of flowers and attract hordes of butterflies. Times, Sunday Times
- If you need privacy fast, try buddleias or lavatera. Times, Sunday Times
- Among ornamental plants, slugs and snails avoid foxgloves, many species in the daisy family, lavateras, hollyhocks, azaleas, Euphorbia, perennial Geraniums, mulleins and Stachys lanata, soapwort, lungwort and hibiscus.
- Some of the best and most widely adapted annual cut flowers with the longest vase life include alstroemeria, aster, celosia, cosmos, gypsophila, lavatera, rudbeckia, scabiosa, snapdragon, statice, sunflower, yarrow, and zinnia.
- Orange lion's tail and yellow Jerusalem sage vie for attention with pink lavatera and blue Cleveland sage in flower-filled beds.
- Choose favourites such as calendula, cornflower, annual chrysanthemum, clarkia, clary, gypsophila, larkspur, lavatera and love-in-a-mist. The Sun
- Some of the best and most widely adapted annual cut flowers with the longest vase life include alstroemeria, aster, celosia, cosmos, gypsophila, lavatera, rudbeckia, scabiosa, snapdragon, statice, sunflower, yarrow, and zinnia.
- To add color to a mostly herbal garden, rely on a few shrubs that bloom nearly year-round, such as lavatera and groundcover roses.
- These and plants such as lavatera, buddleia and cistus are generally not worth moving unless they have been in the ground for two or three years.
- The acanthus refuses to die back and the lavatera has flowered continuously since the summer. Times, Sunday Times