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phlox
/flɑks/
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What does phlox mean?
noun
- Any flowering plant of the genus Phlox.
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There were big sunflowers for the canary bird, tiger lilies and phlox and zinnias and lady’s-slippers and portulaca and hollyhocks,—giant hollyhocks.
In recent years the perennial phlox has been much improved, and it now constitutes one of the best of all flower-garden subjects.
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A few whiffs of the raw, strong scent of phlox invigorated her.
The path runs straight between the flowering rows, A moonlit path, hemmed in by beds of bloom, Where phlox and marigolds dispute for room With tall, red dahlias and the briar rose.
In old-fashioned gardens, set on a pole over which honeysuckle and roses climbed from a bed where China pinks, phlox, sweet Williams, and hollyhocks crowded each other below, martin boxes used always to be seen with a pair of these large, beautiful swallows circling overhead.