oxeye daisy

A gift of yellow roses was meant to convey jealousy, while oxeye daisies expressed patience.

Masses of oxeye daisies and fuchsias blooming on the side of the road softened the austere beauty of the rock.

Last year I took a half acre and planted a meadow of black-eyed Susans and oxeye daisies.

Larkspur, wild hyacinth, wild indigo, wild geranium, horsemint, even oxeye daisies now.

Badock's Meadow, a former prefab housing estate has been reseeded with native meadow plants including oxeye daisies, yellow rattle, wild carrot and knapweed.

Initially, I sowed the areas with grass and wild-flower meadow mixes and, for a couple of years, pretty oxeye daisies, ragged robin and buttercups swayed among the grasses.

Some 98 per cent of the country's semi-natural grasslands have been ploughed up for farmland or housing since the Second World War, meaning the loss of familiar flowers like cornflowers and oxeye daisies.

For the homesteading couple, she layered the yard with clumps of trees and a meadowful of little bluestem and purpletop, and prairie flowers like coneflowers, oxeye daisies, asters and goldenrod.

Can you walk out from your home to a wet meadow, where snipe drum and redshanks call, or to a pond with frog spawn in spring and dragonflies in summer, or to a flowery meadow alive with buttercups, oxeye daisies and poppies?