geranium
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"If you were to plant something like a mint, a eucalyptus or a rose geranium - they have very strongly scented leaves and they're around for a long period of time."
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
These microbes are known to contaminate white wine, causing spoilage and unpleasant odors, including nail polish remover, geranium and "mousy" odors.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2024
These include citronella, a few other geranium varieties, plus marigolds, lemongrass, catnip, certain types of mint, lavender, and lantana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2024
With the right container, simple is satisfying: Think of fat terra-cotta rounds overflowing with a single kind of scented-leafed geranium, or a yellow water lily floating in a cobalt blue urn.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2023
His paintings are great impastos of pigment: chrome yellow, Prussian blue, vermilion, carmine, very light cinnabar green, emerald green, Veronese green, orange, lemon chrome yellow, geranium lake, silver white, zinc white....
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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Their neighbors followed suit, and soon there were scores of street enclosures bright with tulips, daisies and geraniums.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Speaking surrounded by geraniums, he said he was happy to take any form of payment, although card was slightly easier albeit slower to process.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2025
And the plant orders that include geraniums and eucalyptus—once considered to be closely related—are in fact quite distant from each other.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2024
Planters of red geraniums and blue forget-me-nots were everywhere.
From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2023
They were standing beside a bed of geraniums planted near the Hall of Open Records.
From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry
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