NOUN
- any of various plants of the genus Phlomis; grown primarily for their dense whorls of lipped flowers and attractive foliage
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- Phlomis russeliana is a fine choice, up to about 90cm, with whorls of yellow flowers in the summer. Times, Sunday Times
- This suggests that most phlomis, including the shrubby ones from the Mediterranean, are hardy. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- This earlier phlomis keeps a presence in winter, just like 'Edward Bowles', but the foliage is much greyer and the earlier flowers brighter yellow. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- As those insects which have many spiracula, or breathing apertures, as wasps and flies, are immediately suffocated by pouring oil upon them, I carefully covered with oil the surfaces of several leaves of phlomis, of Portugal laurel, and balsams, and though it would not regularly adhere, I found them all die in a day or two. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume IV: Modern Development of the Chemical and Biological Sciences
- 6. The Gardens here at Kew are looking lovey - the Mediterranean Garden is a mass of cistus and phlomis and my beloved Spartium juncium, and awash in sweet and resinous incense-y scents. Archive 2009-06-01
- Some have picturesque names, like broad-lipped purple side-saddle flower, cobweb houseleek, lion's tail phlomis, livid hellebore, melancholy toadflax, parrot-beaked heliconia, and warty St. John's wort.
- The most voguish phlomis is the May-flowering P. tuberosa Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- There are about 100 species of phlomis, but they hybridise in the wild and naming can be difficult. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- Perennial phlomis can be divided in early autumn or from mid-spring., Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
- These include cistus, phlomis, lavenders, rosemary, myrtle, santolinas and artemesias.