How to Use columbine in a Sentence

columbine

noun
  • Try ferns, clover, the emerging baby leaves of columbine, even cut up some chives.
    — oregonlive, 2020-04-08
  • Wild columbine is a fine choice for a gravelly slope, rock ledge, or rock garden.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2022-05-29
  • Columbine fell to 0-2 to start the season for the first time in 11 years.
    — Matt Schubert, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
  • At this time of year, Jack-in-the pulpit and columbine bloom on the forest floor.
    — USA TODAY, 2017-05-12
  • Some of these flowering plants include bee balms, columbine flowers, daylilies, lupines and petunias.
    — Victoria Moorwood, The Enquirer, 2023-04-10
  • Deadhead columbine to prolong its bloom, which can last into summer for some varieties.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 2024-02-14
  • The dry prairie along the bluff top is home to little bluestem, wild bergamot, columbine and silky aster — a colorful display in the spring.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2018-03-08
  • Native columbine, Solomon seal, creeping phlox and wild geranium are not far behind.
    — Cori Brown, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 2021-04-17
  • One of these plants is the serpentine columbine, or Aquilegia eximia.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2015-07-21
  • Regretfully some like the peonies, iris and columbine still do not grow locally but others do.
    — Tom MacCubbin, OrlandoSentinel.com, 2018-05-11
  • After flowering, foxgloves, columbine and delphiniums should be pulled up.
    — NOLA.com, 2018-01-27
  • Those columbines grew vigorously on the east side of their house, showing their approval of this sun orientation.
    — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 2017-07-05
  • For the latter, check out things like bee balms, columbines, lupines, foxgloves, hollyhocks, cleomes, impatiens and petunias.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 2020-02-20
  • The works included Colorado’s state flower, the blue columbine, as well as yucca, lupines, mushrooms and other plants.
    — Colleen Smith, The Denver Post, 2017-04-14
  • In pastel pinks and purples, an enchanting mix of columbines, lupines and foxgloves bloom in pockets of sun underneath Japanese maples.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee.com, 2017-06-02
  • In early summer, look to the alpine meadows of Flagstaff and the White Mountains adorned with fleabane, blue flax, paintbrush, columbine and more.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 2024-02-24
  • Ironweed, bergamot, prairie blazingstar, tall Joe Pye weed, Ohio goldenrod and columbine are some of the flowers featured.
    — Jennifer Rude Klett, Journal Sentinel, 2023-04-20
  • Coni Sanders, whose father, Dave, a teacher, was killed in the attack, said that a floor tile with an image of the purple columbine flower lay near where her father had been shot.
    — New York Times, 2019-06-07
  • Examples of plants that can be located in full sun now but in the half-day sun later would include petunia, dianthus, lobelia, and columbine (Aquiegia spp.) 2.
    — Joshua Siskin, Orange County Register, 2024-03-08
  • These include columbine, bee balm, blanket flower, campanula, lavender, peonies, salvia, speedwell, and tickseed.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 2022-11-08
  • Osha is common along forest edges and ravines of the Rocky Mountains, growing alongside the Colorado columbine and bluebell wildflowers.
    — Barbie Cervoni, Verywell Health, 2024-03-11
  • Or try native woodland wildflowers such as perennial lobelia, mayapple, columbine, thalictrum, amsonia, blood root, Solomon seal, and phlox.
    — Boston.com Real Estate, 2019-08-21
  • But in several high profile shootings since Columbine, shooters have had shirts, stickers or other references to the band as a reference to the Columbine shooting.
    — Claudia Lauer, Chicago Tribune, 28 Aug. 2025
  • The sale will include about 45 different plant species, including wild columbine, wild geranium, butterfly milkweed, blazing stars and purple prairie clover, the school district said.
    — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 2017-05-23
  • Transplant petunias, marigolds and perennial flowers such as astilbe, columbine, coneflowers, coreopsis, dahlias, rudbeckia and verbena.
    — Debbie Arrington, sacbee, 2018-05-05
  • Honey Dijon,’ and ‘Sombreuil’ roses, as well as a supporting cast of columbine, bearded iris, Japanese snowberry, honeysuckle, and plum.
    — Sunset, 2018-01-22
  • An understory of spreading dogbane, yellow columbine, Richardson’s geranium, curly dock, wild roses and fragrant wild geranium grow profusely in damp slivers of space among roots, boulders and gigantic trees.
    — Mare Czinar, azcentral, 2019-07-18
  • While the native columbine – Aquilegia canadensis produces red and yellow blooms, there are an abundance of color choices in the hybrid columbines, all of which are early, cool season perennials in the ranunculus or buttercup family.
    — Arkansas Online, 2022-03-28
  • The McHenrys’ own home garden has grown steadily over the past decade to include a wide array of pollinator and ornamental plants, including lavender, yarrow, fleece-flower, thistle, baptisia, lilies, geraniums and columbine.
    — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 2020-10-16
  • Splashes of orange, red, purple, and yellow benefit from diverse soil that yields species like lupine, Giant Indian Paintbrush, Sierra tiger lily, crimson columbine, and skyrocket, among others.
    — Krista Simmons and J.d. Simkins, Sunset Magazine, 2024-03-08

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