Canterbury bells

noun

, (used with a singular or plural verb)

a plant, Campanula medium, cultivated for its showy, bell-shaped violet-blue, pink, or white flowers in loose clusters.

First recorded in 1570–80

And the girls decorated the tables with flowers—blue larkspur and white canterbury bells.

The Canterbury Bells should be six inches across in the fall, and the next year about two feet high.

The gladiolas, canterbury bells, gillie flowers and fox gloves grow as prim as in a conservative English garden.

The meadows on the hillside are full of yarrow and canterbury bells; everythings in bloom.

Mr. Hawkins: We have three plants, hollyhocks, digitalis and canterbury bells, and nearly all have the same trouble with them.

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