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love-in-a-mist

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love-in-a-mist (lvn--mst)
n.
A Mediterranean plant (Nigella damascena) having blue or whitish flowers surrounded by numerous threadlike bracts.
love-in-a-mist
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an erect S European ranunculaceous plant, Nigella damascena, cultivated as a garden plant, having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers See also fennelflower
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Noun1.love-in-a-mistlove-in-a-mist - tropical American passion flower with finely dissected bracts; stems malodorous when crushed
Passiflora foetida, running pop, wild water lemon
passionflower, passionflower vine - any of various chiefly tropical American vines some bearing edible fruit
2.love-in-a-mist - chickweed with hairy silver-grey leaves and rather large white flowers
Cerastium tomentosum, snow-in-summer
clammy chickweed, mouse eared chickweed, mouse-ear chickweed, mouse ear, chickweed - any of various plants related to the common chickweed
3.love-in-a-mist - European garden plant having finely cut leaves and white or pale blue flowers
Nigella damascena
nigella - any plant of the genus Nigella


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TIP OF THE WEEK: Flower seeds that germinate most easily this time of year are alyssum (white, purple, rose), calendula (yellow, orange), nasturtium (yellow, orange, red), love-in-a-mist (baby blue, purple, rose, white), red flowering flax (Linum grandiflorum ``Rubrum''), and California poppy (orange).
IN THE GARDEN SOMETIMES SEEDS CAN BE BETTER THAN SIX-PACKS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Love-in-a-mist is the name of a plant that feels at home in almost any garden and makes several different, distinct impressions in the course of the year.
GARDENING : LOVE-IN-A-MIST TELLS ITS STORY THROUGHOUT YEAR by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
In raised beds made from sandy topsoil and Kellogg's Gromulch, we planted seed packets of love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena), oriental poppy (Papaver orientale), Shirley poppy (Papaver rhoeas), purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), paludosum daisy (Chrysanthemum paludosum), baby blue eyes (Nemophila insignis), ``Sparkler radish,'' ``Early Wonder'' beet and ``Danvers Half Long'' carrot.
GARDENING : PLANT SOME SEEDS OF WONDER by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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