How to Use astilbe in a Sentence

astilbe

noun
  • The plants below include red twig dogwood, coral bells, and astilbe, to name a few.
    — Lennie Omalza, The Courier-Journal, 30 May 2024
  • An assortment of blooming astilbes and tricyrtis (toad lilies) will be on display.
    — Atlanta Life, ajc, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Perennials with a long bloom time are catmint, astilbe, and coneflower, among many others.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Keep your astilbe blooming strong by dividing plants every two to three years or when clumps become overcrowded.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The arrangements are reported to be made up mostly of peonies, sweet peas, astilbe, freesia, waxflowers, and green bells.
    — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 23 May 2017
  • Depending on the variety, astilbe plants bloom in late spring, summer, or fall in vibrant shades of red, pink, purple, or white.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Feverfew, astilbe and heuchera blooms, Queen Anne’s lace, dianthus, yarrow, goldenrod and love-in-a-mist work well in this role.
    — Ciscoe Morris, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
  • The bouquet also included sweet peas, lily of the valley, astilbe, jasmine, and astrantia.
    — Megan Friedman, Town & Country, 20 May 2018
  • Spikes of creamy white astilbe mimicked Mona Lisa’s skin tone, and the long seed heads of the andromeda aped her fingers and added a tawny layer.
    — Lindsey Taylor, WSJ, 7 Aug. 2018
  • Traditionally a shade plant, newer astilbe hybrids will now tolerate more sun.
    — Angela England, The Spruce, 22 Feb. 2026
  • There were white roses and pink astilbe, blue bachelor buttons and red coneflowers, white lysimachia and purple limonium.
    — Denise Coffey, courant.com, 22 July 2019
  • When the astilbes bloom, their white flowers make a shimmering mass in the sun, countering the meaning of their name, in Greek, as something that does not shimmer.
    — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • The bouquet featured trailing jasmine, pale pink and cream sweet peas, royal porcelain ivory spray roses, pink o’hara garden roses, pink wax flower and baby pink astilbe.
    — Town & Country, 17 July 2023
  • Purple hydrangea, silver and gold astilbe sprays and silver snowflakes add color to the 10-foot-tall Christmas tree at the base of the sweeping staircase.
    — oregonlive, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Some perennials, such a coneflower and yarrow, revel in bright sun from morning until night while others, such as astilbe and old-fashioned bleeding heart, do best in afternoon shade.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2020
  • Create a high-energy atmosphere in your space by pairing contrasting textures, such as combining a hosta with large leaves alongside a feathery astilbe.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Nov. 2025
  • Depending on your available space, create visual depth by planting taller plants like astilbes or hellebores in the back, medium-sized plants like hostas and ferns in the middle, and low-growing groundcovers in the front.
    — Clarence Schmidt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Meghan's Bouquet Meghan carried a modest collection of forget-me-nots, sweet pears, lily of the valley, astilbe, jasmine, astrantia and a spring of myrtle.
    — Kate Storey, Town & Country, 12 Oct. 2018
  • Other perennials to set out include verbena, coreopsis, coneflower and astilbe.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 5 May 2018
  • For example, put impatiens, cardinal flowers (Lobelia cardinalis), astilbe, and other moisture-loving plants in one spot.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 5 July 2025
  • For example, put impatiens, cardinal flowers (Lobelia cardinalis), astilbe, and other moisture-loving plants in one spot.
    — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Transplant petunias, marigolds and perennial flowers such as astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia and verbena.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 5 May 2018
  • For her own version, Princess Beatrice chose an arrangement filled with trailing jasmine, pale pink and cream sweet peas, royal porcelain ivory spray roses, pink o’hara garden roses, pink wax flower and baby pink astilbe.
    — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 18 July 2020
  • The arrangement was comprised of scented sweet peas, lily of the valley, astilbe, jasmine, astrantia and several flowers hand-picked by Harry from the couple's private garden at Kensington Palace.
    — Tamara Abraham, Harper's BAZAAR, 19 May 2018
  • Feathery pink astilbe, added by gardener Rick Elder, brings a soft, organic note to the corridor, and in the distance, a 150-year-old bronze beech forms a majestic backdrop behind a sweet marble statue of a child.
    — Katy Elliott, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Instead plant shade-tolerant perennial geranium, lady’s mantle, hellebore, bleeding heart, coral bell, hydrangea, begonia, annual lobelia, astilbe, and Japanese anemone.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 21 Aug. 2019

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