dusty miller

dusty miller

Any of several low-growing plants that have fuzzy stems and leaves. I think I've got a dusty miller growing in my back yard.
See also: dusty, miller
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • miller
  • dusty butt
  • not so dusty
  • have been to hell and back
  • brown thumb
  • been to hell and back
  • follow the example of
  • in the not too distant future
  • in the not-so-distant future
  • in the not-too-distant future
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In a report to Rochdale council's licensing committee, GMP said there are 'ongoing issues' in Middleton 'involving well-known families.' .' Early in the evening on Friday, June 22, a man from one of thos families tried to get in the Dusty Miller, on Middleton Gardens, in an 'agitated state' saying he wanted to attack another man.
'Feuding families were at centre of night of violence' POLICE REVEAL DETAILS AFTER TOWN CENTRE PUB WAS CLOSED DOWN
Yn Nhachwedd 1950 mae cofnodion harbwr Caernarfon yn son am drawst oddi ar y Dusty Miller a gollwyd yn 1897 yn cael ei ganfod yn y cei dros hanner canrif yn ddiweddarach!
Helyntion Cymro o Fon ar yr hen longau hwyliau
May 28: Workshop: Addictions and trauma recovery with Dusty Miller; Leading Edge Seminars; Toronto; 416.964.1133
Calendar Canada
Brit trooper Dusty Miller (Mark Strong) sets up a meditation altar and covert adult-education "jungle university." Campbell, meanwhile, persists in plotting an escape, or insurrection.
To End All Wars
Each tree bed will be planted with colorful flowers, such as Petunia Integrifolia, Ipomea Margarita and Dusty Miller, all of which are robust plants that have the ability to withstand semidrought conditions.
Columbus Ave. BID hires Goddard for beautification prgm
33-1 Duke of Monmouth (Mark Richards) sees off Crowded House in the Triumph Hurdle, and then Dusty Miller (Jamie Osborne) beats Bank View in the County Hurdle.
All our yesterdays:
QTHE leaves of my Dusty Miller rhododendron have started to die back from the tips over the last 15 months.
Gardening Questions
Stamp pad ink adheres especially well to downy leaves such as sage, lamb's ear, dusty miller, or geranium, but many other kinds give good results as well.
Leaf stamping (excerpted from 'Nature Printing with Herbs, Fruits & Flowers')
In back, feathery dusty miller (Senecio cineraria) offers some stature and fuzz to the mix.
Opposites attract
Fluffy lamb's ears and dusty miller both have great pale silver leaves.
White magic; Single colour can have thrilling effect; Gardening
He fell near the Dusty Miller pub in Huddersfield, West Yorks.
Drinker nods off in rescue after 12ft fall
On the porch of the cathedral guests were greeted with an arrangement of white hydrangeas, tibet roses, bay leaf, and dusty miller on the registry table.
Johnston & Yelverton
WORLD War Two veteran Dusty Miller, from Kirkby, shared his memories with Knowsley school boy Ethan O'Brien at a Remembrance service.
Dusty shares war-time stories; HUYTON Pupils join service
DUSTY MILLER had a good spell at SCALING DAM, catching his limit -including the biggest fish of the week -in just three hours.
John just can't stop catching! Andrew Wilkinson's weekly round-up of all the latest news from the angling scene: TROUT TOPICS
One of the self-seeders is the familiar border kind, dusty miller or Lychnis coronaria, which has ghostly silver-grey leaves and skeletal stems some 60cm (2ft) tall on which glowing, deep rose-pink, campion-like flowers appear slowly in succession.
Modest blooms add interest and background colour