Sentence examples for county flower from inspiring English sources
But the main purpose of our visit was to look for grass of Parnassus, the county flower of Cumberland, which I'd last seen growing near the water's edge.
Fritillaria are also often used as floral emblems, for instance as the county flower of Oxfordshire, UK.
As part of a 2002 marketing campaign, the plant conservation charity Plantlife chose the wood anemone as the county flower.
Common cottongrass (Eriophorum angustifolium), a plant with fluffy white plumes native to wet hollows on high moors, was announced as the county flower of Greater Manchester.
Following a vote in 2002, Plantlife International designated E. angustifolium the County Flower of Greater Manchester, as part of its British County Flowers campaign.
In 2002, the County Flowers campaign of Plantlife International, which asked members of the public to nominate and vote for a wildflower emblem for each of the counties and metropolitan areas of the United Kingdom, resulted in Eriophorum angustifolium being announced as the County Flower of Greater Manchester.
In 2002, Plantlife International launched its County Flowers campaign, asking members of the public to nominate and vote for a wild flower emblem for their county.
One morning as she looked forward to preparing her heirloom violets, which she grew year round in a hot-house of her own design, for entry in the monthly tri-county flower show, Miss Oriflamme discovered that they had been trod upon by a pair of size 11 boots – just Dr. Awkward's size.
Either way, the corpse flower has remained the county bloom, and borough officials said they were looking forward to the designation of the new flower, scheduled for May 15 at the botanical garden.
But for Borough President Fernando Ferrer, one of the last pieces of the image still needs to be changed: the county's official flower.
Because Alexander grew up pitching in at her mother's Marin County gift and flower shop, she's a big believer in "having green, living things" around.
