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Canterbury bell

flower memorializing harness bells of Canterbury pilgrims. [Br. Hist.: Espy, 303]
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SOW biennials such as Canterbury bells and hollyhocks now to brighten up your flowerbeds next spring.
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The droopy wisteria, hark of dark Canterbury Bells, forget-me-not blues, and the giraffe-high agapanthus my Nana planted along Torquay holiday-house drive I visited as a child.
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The first year, the hollyhock, Canterbury bells or foxglove produces roots and leaves.
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Finally, seeds that can be sown during the summer include biennials, such as foxgloves, sweet williams, Canterbury bells and forget-me-nots.
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They grow in woods, mountains and dark vallies, and under hedges and bushes, especially about Coventry, where they grow very plentifully abroad in the fields, and they are called Coventry Bells, and of some about London Canterbury Bells.
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Such flowers as digitalis, delphinium and Canterbury bells are in this group.
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These summer-flowering favourites come in a range of sizes and colours but among the most popular are the Canterbury Bells and the milky bellflower, C.
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While all about us peal the loud, sweet 'Te Deums' of the Canterbury Bells.
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Alison J Best's exhibition, called Blossoming Out: The Art of the Garden, is in her own words a celebration of the joy of flowers and plants with her depictions of snowdrops seen growing beside a road in Burnopfield, forsythia, iris, Canterbury bells, honeysuckle, daisy, colchicums, stitchwort, clover, toadflax, spring hellebore, foxglove, star of Bethlehem, wood anemone, rudbeckia, tulip, celandine, speedwell, daffodil and philadelphus.
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