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nemesia [nɪˈmiːʒə]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any plant of the southern African scrophulariaceous genus Nemesia: cultivated for their brightly coloured (often reddish) flowers
[New Latin, from Greek nemesion, name of a plant resembling this]


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Paint them with acrylic paints for a funky look, add some extra drainage holes and get planting with colourful summer bedding such as pansies, nemesias, lobelia or petunias.
You can choose flowers to match your colour scheme - brick red nasturtiums, bronze and yellow mixtures of nemesias, vivid blue nigella (love-in-a-mist), rich orange English marigolds and, for the back of the border, tall annual chrysanthemums.
It was only later I read that nemesias came from South Africa and that their natural habitat was in sandy soil on the coast.
 
 
 
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